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Markovian theory of dynamical decoupling by periodic control

Quantum Physics 2015-09-01 v2 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

The recently developed formalism of Markovian master equations for quantum open systems with external periodic driving is applied to the theory of dynamical decoupling by periodic control. This new approach provides a more detailed quantitative picture of this phenomenon applicable both to traditional NMR spectroscopy and to recent attempts of decoherence reduction in quantum devices. For popular choices of bath spectral densities and a two-level system, exact formulas for the relaxation rates are available. In the context of NMR imaging, the obtained formulas allow the extraction of a new parameter describing bath relaxation time from the experimental data.

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@article{arxiv.1505.03726,
  title  = {Markovian theory of dynamical decoupling by periodic control},
  author = {Krzysztof Szczygielski and Robert Alicki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1505.03726},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

14 pages, 6 figures; final version with minor revisions added