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Control of decoherence in open quantum systems using feedback

Narayan Ganesan, Tzyh-jong Tarn

Published Jan 1, 2006• 5 citations
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Abstract — Quantum feedback is assuming increasingly important role in quantum control and quantum information processing. In this work we analyze the application of such feedback techniques in eliminating decoherence in open quantum systems. In order to apply such system theoretic methods we first analyze the invariance properties of quadratic forms which corresponds to expected value of a measurement and present conditions for decouplability of measurement outputs of such time-varying open quantum systems from environmental effects. I.

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Abstract — Quantum feedback is assuming increasingly important role in quantum control and quantum information processing. In this work we analyze the application of such feedback techniques in eliminating decoherence in open quantum systems. In order to apply such system theoretic methods we first analyze the invariance properties of quadratic forms which corresponds to expected value of a measurement and present conditions for decouplability of measurement outputs of such time-varying open quantum systems from environmental effects. I.
Quantum feedback is assuming increasingly im- portant role in quantum control and quantum information processing. In this work we analyze the application of such feedback techniques in eliminating decoherence in open quan- tum systems. In order to apply such system theoretic methods we first analyze the invariance properties of quadratic forms which corresponds to expected value of a measurement and present conditions for decouplability of measurement outputs of such time-varying open quantum systems from environmental effects.
In this work we propose a strategy using techniques from systems theory to completely eliminate decoherence and also provide conditions under which it can be done. A construction employing an auxiliary system, the bait, which is instrumental to decoupling the system from the environment is presented. Our approach to decoherence control in contrast to other approaches in the literature involves the bilinear input affine model of quantum control system which lends itself to various techniques from classical control theory, but with nontrivial modifications to the quantum regime. The elegance of this approach yields interesting results on open loop decouplability and decoherence free subspaces. Additionally, the feedback control of decoherence may be related to disturbance decoupling for classical input affine systems, which entails careful application of the methods by avoiding all the quantum mechanical pitfalls. In the process of calculating a suitable feedback the system must be restructured due to its tensorial nature of interaction with the environment, which is unique to quantum systems. In the subsequent section we discuss a general information extraction scheme to gain knowledge of the state and the amount of decoherence based on indirect continuous measurement. The analysis of continuous measurement on a decohering quantum system has not been extensively studied before. Finally, a methodology to synthesize feedback parameters itself is given, that technology permitting, could be implemented for practical 2-qubit systems to perform decoherence free quantum computing. The results obtained are qualitatively different and superior to the ones obtained via master equations.
A general framework for applying feedback control to quantum control system under continuous measurement by a probe is discussed. The analysis is the standard bilinear interacting hamiltonian control form. A continuous measurement model based on an interacting quantum probe is used to control via feedback. It is also shown that concepts from systems theory could be applied with non-trivial modifications to analyze such feedback control systems undergoing decoherence. We also report new progress to the ongoing work on applications of feedback to control decoherence in open quantum systems.
Known as decoherence, the unavoidable interaction of a quantum system with its surrounding environment is usually considered to be detrimental for quantum information processing. In this thesis the coherent, open loop control of such open systems is studied. Concepts from quantum control theory and the theory of open quantum system are adopted in order to fight decoherence and implement quantum gates in a noiseless manner. In particular, Lie algebraic methods and numerical optimization tools are used to investigate the control properties of a single spin interacting with a spin environment. We show that, independent of the size of the environment, every unitary transformation can be implemented on the system spin through a single control field. We proceed by investigating dynamical decoupling, a method to suppress the interactions with the environment, for finite- and for in- finite dimensional systems. We prove that every finite dimensional system can be protected from decoherence, even if the environment is infinite dimensional, whereas for noise described by a Lindblad master equation dynamical decoupling will never succeed. This will lead to a new method to distinguish decoherence from intrinsic noise terms. We further prove that not every infinite dimensional system can be protected from decoherence through dynamical decoupling. Afterwards we investigate dynamical decoupling of systems that are described by quadratic Hamiltonians, showing that such interactions can always be suppressed with two simple operations. In the last part we investigate the coherent control of a Lindblad master equation. We show that a strong noise process exhibiting a decoherence free subspace can substantially increase the number of unitary operations that can be implemented, allowing us to fully control parts of the system. Afterwards we develop a scheme to make Hamiltonians and Lindbladians commutative by adding an auxiliary system. The old, possibly non-commutative dynamics, is recovered through a non-selective measurement.
The problem of decoherence suppression for the general N-level Markov open quantum systems is studied. Here, the quantum feedback control strategy is presented for the quantum ensemble. In order to find the control Hamiltonians and the measured observables, the new concept of the noise decoupling decomposition for the su(N) Lie algebra is introduced. It is shown that some state variables of the coherence vector of the system density matrix can be completely decoupled from the environmental noises under the feedback control.
The decoherence suppression issue is studied for two-level quantum systems based on coherent control strategy.The model of two-level open quantum systems under coherent control is formulated,in which the decoherence suppression is equivalent to the decoupling problem of the system from environmental noises.Then,an open-loop control is designed to suppress decoherence,which is shown to be capable of asymptotically decoupling a part of the dynamic variables of the system from the environmental noises.Finally,feedback control strategy is introduced so that the corresponding state variables can be precisely decoupled form the environmental noises without being affected by the noises induced by quantum measurement in feedback control.