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Quantum speedup in a memory environment

Quantum Physics 2015-03-09 v3

Abstract

Memory (non-Markovian) effect is found to be able to accelerate quantum evolution [S. Deffner and E. Lutz, Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 010402 (2013)]. In this work, for an atom in a structured reservoir, we show that the mechanism for the speedup is not only related to non-Markovianity but also to the population of excited states under a given driving time. In other words, it is the competition between non-Markovianity and population of excited states that ultimately determines the acceleration of quantum evolution in memory environment. A potential experimental realization for verifying the above phenomena is discussed by using a nitrogen-vacancy (N-V) center embedded in a planar photonic crystal cavity (PCC) under the current experimental conditions.

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@article{arxiv.1311.1593,
  title  = {Quantum speedup in a memory environment},
  author = {Zhen-Yu Xu and Shunlong Luo and W. L. Yang and Chen Liu and Shiqun Zhu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1311.1593},
  year   = {2015}
}

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6 pages, 4 figures, published version

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