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Classical Robustness of Quantum Unravellings

Quantum Physics 2009-11-10 v2

Abstract

We introduce three measures which quantify the degree to which quantum systems possess the robustness exhibited by classical systems when subjected to continuous observation. Using these we show that for a fixed environmental interaction the level of robustness depends on the measurement strategy, or unravelling, and that no single strategy is maximally robust in all ways.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0408080,
  title  = {Classical Robustness of Quantum Unravellings},
  author = {D. J. Atkins and Z. Brady and K. Jacobs and H. M. Wiseman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0408080},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

8 Pages, 2 figures, Version 2. Minor changes to wording for clarification and some references added. Accepted for publication in Europhysics Letters

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