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All-optical implementation of collision-based evolutions of open quantum systems

Quantum Physics 2019-01-23 v4

Abstract

We present a new optical scheme enabling the implementation of highly stable and configurable non-Markovian dynamics. Here one photon qubit can circulate in a multipass bulk geometry consisting of two concatenated Sagnac interferometers to simulate the so called collisional model, where the system interacts at discrete times with a vacuum environment. We show the optical features of our apparatus and three different implementations of it, replicating a pure Markovian scenario and two non-Markovian ones, where we quantify the information backflow by tracking the evolution of the initial entanglement between the system photon and an ancillary one.

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@article{arxiv.1809.01922,
  title  = {All-optical implementation of collision-based evolutions of open quantum systems},
  author = {Álvaro Cuevas and Andrea Geraldi and Carlo Liorni and Luís Diego Bonavena and Antonella De Pasquale and Fabio Sciarrino and Vittorio Giovannetti and Paolo Mataloni},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.01922},
  year   = {2019}
}

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This document is organized in 5 sections, containing 10 pages and 7 figures

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