arXiv:cond-mat/0203039 · Modern Physics Letters B

SHORT-TIME DECOHERENCE AND DEVIATION FROM PURE QUANTUM STATES

VLADIMIR PRIVMAN

Published Jun 10, 2002• 22 citations

Abstract

In systems considered for quantum computing, i.e., for control of quantum dynamics with the goal of processing information coherently, decoherence and deviation from pure quantum states, are the main obstacles to error correction. At low temperatures, usually assumed in quantum computing designs, some of the accepted approaches to evaluation of relaxation mechanisms break down. We develop a new formalism for the estimation of decoherence at short times, appropriate for evaluation of quantum computing architectures.

DOI: 10.1142/s0217984902003920

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