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Entropic uncertainty relations for Markovian and non-Markovian processes under a structured bosonic reservoir

Quantum Physics 2022-10-26 v1

Abstract

The uncertainty relation is a fundamental limit in quantum mechanics and is of great importance to quantum information processing as it relates to quantum precision measurement. Due to interactions with the surrounding environment, a quantum system will unavoidably suffer from decoherence. Here, we investigate the dynamic behaviors of the entropic uncertainty relation of an atom-cavity interacting system under a bosonic reservoir during the crossover between Markovian and non-Markovian regimes. Specifically, we explore the dynamic behavior of the entropic uncertainty relation for a pair of incompatible observables under the reservoir-induced atomic decay effect both with and without quantum memory. We find that the uncertainty dramatically depends on both the atom-cavity and the cavity-reservoir interactions, as well as the correlation time, τ\tau, of the structured reservoir. Furthermore, we verify that the uncertainty is anti-correlated with the purity of the state of the observed qubit-system. We also propose a remarkably simple and efficient way to reduce the uncertainty by utilizing quantum weak measurement reversal. Therefore our work offers a new insight into the uncertainty dynamics for multi-component measurements within an open system, and is thus important for quantum precision measurements.

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@article{arxiv.1703.08686,
  title  = {Entropic uncertainty relations for Markovian and non-Markovian processes under a structured bosonic reservoir},
  author = {Dong Wang and Ai-Jun Huang and Ross D. Hoehn and Fei Ming and Wen-Yang Sun and Jia-Dong Shi and Liu Ye and Sabre Kais},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.08686},
  year   = {2022}
}

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17 pages, 9 figures, to appear in Scientific Reports