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Asymptotic spectral stability of the Gisin-Percival state diffusion

Quantum Physics 2017-09-22 v2

Abstract

Starting from the Gisin-Percival state diffusion equation for the pure state trajectory of a composite bipartite quantum system and exploiting the purification of a mixed state via its Schmidt decomposition, we write the diffusion equation for the quantum trajectory of the mixed state of a subsystem SS of the bipartite system, when the initial state in SS is mixed. Denoting the diffused state of the system SS at time tt by ρt(B)\rho_t(\mathbf{B}) for each t0t\geq 0, where B\mathbf{B} is the underlying complex nn-dimensional vector-valued Brownian motion process and using It{\^o} calculus, along with an induction procedure, we arrive at the stochastic differential of the scalar-valued moment process Tr[ρtm(B)],m=2,3,{\rm Tr}[\rho_t^m( \mathbf{B})], \,\,\, m=2,3,\ldots in terms of dBd\,\mathbf{B} and dtd\,t. This shows that each of the processes {Tr[ρtm(B)],t0}\{{\rm Tr}[\rho_t^m( \mathbf{B})], t\geq 0\} admits a Doob-Meyer decomposition as the sum of a martingale Mt(m)(B)M^{(m)}_t(\mathbf{B}) and a non-negative increasing process St(m)(B)S^{(m)}_t(\mathbf{B}). This ensures the existence of limtTr[ρtm(B)]\underset{t\rightarrow\infty}{\lim}\, {\rm Tr}[\rho_t^m( \mathbf{B})] almost surely with respect to the Wiener probability measure μ\mu of the Brownian motion B\mathbf{B}, for each m=2,3,m=2,\, 3,\, \ldots. In particular, when SS is a finite level system, the spectrum and therefore the entropy of ρt(B)\rho_t (\mathbf{B}) converge almost surely to a limit as tt\rightarrow \infty. In the Appendix, by employing probabilistic means, we prove a technical result which implies the almost sure convergence of the spectrum for countably infinite level systems.

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@article{arxiv.1707.08157,
  title  = {Asymptotic spectral stability of the Gisin-Percival state diffusion},
  author = {K. R. Parthasarathy and A. R. Usha Devi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.08157},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

13 pages, no figures, Appendix added