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arXiv:quant-ph/0110164

Quantum homogenization

Mário Ziman, Peter Štelmachovič, Vladimír Bužek, Mark S. Hillery, Valerio Scarani, Nicolas Gisin

Published Oct 29, 2001• 2 citations
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Abstract

We design a universal quantum homogenizer, which is a quantum machine that takes as an input a system qubit initially in the state $ρ$ and a set of N reservoir qubits initially prepared in the same state $ξ$. In the homogenizer the system qubit sequentially interacts with the reservoir qubits via the partial swap transformation. The homogenizer realizes, in the limit sense, the transformation such that at the output each qubit is in an arbitratily small neighbourhood of the state $ξ$ irrespective of the initial states of the system and the reservoir qubits. This means that the system qubit undergoes an evolution that has a fixed point, which is the reservoir state $ξ$. We also study approximate homogenization when the reservoir is composed of a finite set of identically prepared qubits. The homogenizer allows us to understand various aspects of the dynamics of open systems interacting with environments in non-equilibrium states. In particular, the reversibility vs or irreversibility of the dynamics of the open system is directly linked to specific (classical) information about the order in which the reservoir qubits interacted with the system qubit. This aspect of the homogenizer leads to a model of a quantum safe with a classical combination.We analyze in detail how entanglement between the reservoir and the system is created during the process of quantum homogenization. We show that the information about the initial state of the system qubit is stored in the entanglement between the homogenized qubits.

DOI
10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0110164

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Abstract Recently Ziman et al. [3] have introduced a concept of a universal quantum homogenizer which is a quantum machine that takes as an input a system qubit initially in an arbitrary state ρ and a set of N reservoir qubits initially prepared in the same state ξ. The homogenizer realizes, in the limit sense, the transformation such that at the output each qubit is in an arbitrarily small neighbourhood of the state ξ irrespective of the initial states of the system and the reservoir qubits. In this paper we generalize the concept of quantum homogenization for qudits, that is, for d‐dimensional quantum systems. We prove that the partial swap operation induces a contractive map with the fixed point which is the original state of the reservoir. Finally we propose an optical realization of the quantum homogenization.
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We study how entanglement between an open system and a reservoir is established. The system is considered to be a qubit, while the reservoir is modelled as a collection of qubits. The system and the reservoir qubits interact via a sequence of partial-swap operations. This processes is called quantum homogenization since at the output the system as well as all reservoir qubits are in states that are, in a limit sense, equal to the original state of the reservoir qubits. We show that in this process the Coffman–Kundu–Wootters inequalities are saturated. This means that no intrinsic multi-partite entanglement is created.
A simple collision model is employed to introduce elementary concepts of open system dynamics of quantum systems. In particular, within the framework of collision models we introduce the quantum analogue of thermalization process called quantum homogenization and simulate quantum decoherence processes. These dynamics are driven by partial swaps and controlled unitary collisions, respectively. We show that collision models can be used to prepare multipartite entangled states. Partial swap dynamics generates W-type of entanglement saturating the CKW inequalities, whereas the decoherence collision models creates GHZ-type of entangled states. The considered evolution of a system in a sequence of collisions is described by a discrete semigroup E_1,...,E_n. Interpolating this discrete points within the set of quantum channels we derive for both processes the corresponding Lindblad master equations. In particular, we argue that collision models can be used as simulators of arbitrary Markovian dynamics, however, the inverse is not true.