Characterizing quantum dynamics with initial system-environment correlations
Quantum Physics
2015-03-11 v1
Abstract
We fully characterize the reduced dynamics of an open quantum system initially correlated with its environment. Using a photonic qubit coupled to a simulated environment we tomographically reconstruct a superchannel---a generalised channel that treats preparation procedures as inputs---from measurement of the system alone, despite its coupling to the environment. We introduce novel quantitative measures for determining the strength of initial correlations, and to allow an experiment to be optimised in regards to its environment.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1410.5826,
title = {Characterizing quantum dynamics with initial system-environment correlations},
author = {Martin Ringbauer and Christopher J. Wood and Kavan Modi and Alexei Gilchrist and Andrew G. White and Alessandro Fedrizzi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.5826},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
10 pages, 15 figures