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International Journal of Quantum Information

Evolution of quantum coherence induced by band gaps and initial-state preparation measurements

Filippo Giraldi

Published Feb 1, 2020• 1 citation
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Abstract

The evolution of quantum coherence in a qubit is analyzed, over short and long times, in case the qubit interacts with a bosonic environment. The distribution of the frequency modes exhibits a low-frequency band gap. The initial conditions under study of the qubit and the bosonic environment are factorized or prepared with selective or nonselective measurements. The modulus of the coherence term of the reduced density matrix of the qubit evolves algebraically over short times and, due to the band gap, tends to the nonvanishing asymptotic value with damped oscillations. Depending on the measurement scheme, the nonselective preparation measurement can enhance quantum coherence or accelerate the decoherence process, over short times, according to dominant linear laws. Over long times, the nonselective preparation measurement produces the slowest-decaying envelope of the damped oscillations among the decoherence processes under study. Similar short- and long-time evolution is exhibited by the trace distance measure of two general states of the qubit.

DOI
10.1142/s0219749919410181

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The effects of the measurement apparatus on quantum coherence are studied by considering a purely dephasing model of a qubit. The initial state is prepared from a thermal state of the whole system by performing a nonselective measurement on the qubit. The magnitude of the initial postmeasurement coherence is bounded by the value [Formula: see text], which is realized with special measurement schemes and in the low-temperature limit. The coherence magnitude identically vanishes, increases or decreases with an approximately constant rate over a determined short-time scale, according to the choice of the preparation measurement. The maximization of the short-time increasing or decreasing rate is favored by the choice of other special measurement schemes and the high-temperature limit. The measurement apparatus allows to manipulate the quantum coherence of the qubit over short times via nonselective preparation measurements.
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We consider an electrostatic qubit located near a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) of noninteracting bosons in a double-well potential, which is used for qubit measurements. Tracing out the BEC variables we obtain a simple analytical expression for the qubit's density matrix. The qubit's evolution exhibits a slow $(\ensuremath{\propto}1/\sqrt{t})$ damping of the qubit's coherence term, which however turns to be a Gaussian one in the case of static qubit. This is in contrast to the exponential damping produced by most classical detectors. The decoherence is, in general, incomplete and strongly depends on the initial state of the qubit.
The dissipative effects of a quantum harmonic oscillator, initially set in a coherent state and linearly coupled to a continuous distribution of frequency modes, are analyzed over long time scales in relation to the behavior of the spectral density near an arbitrary band gap, arbitrarily shaped at the higher frequencies. The reservoir is initially set either in the vacuum state or in continuous distributions of coherent states. These distributions are arbitrarily shaped at high frequencies and structured in sub- or super-ohmic configurations near an arbitrary band gap frequency. Similarly to certain decoherence processes of a qubit, critical conditions emerge, such that arbitrarily slow inverse power law relaxations of the expectation values of the observables, are obtained by approaching the boundary between the sub- and the super-ohmic regimes. Also, in such critical conditions, a trapping of the number of excitations appears in the super-ohmic regime. The technique of critical frequency control, emerging in the scenario of the environment-induced decoherence of a qubit via the reservoir engineering approach, is extended to the harmonic quantum Brownian motion.
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