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The Structure of Decoherence-free Subsystems

Quantum Physics 2018-02-15 v1

Abstract

Decoherence-free subsystems have been successfully developed as a tool to preserve fragile quantum information against noises. In this letter, we develop a structure theory for decoherence-free subsystems. Based on it, we present an effective algorithm to construct a set of maximal decoherence-free subsystems in the sense that any other such subsystem is a subspace of one of them. As an application of these techniques in quantum many body systems, we propose a simple and numerically robust method to determine if two irreducible tensors are repeated, a key step in deciding if they are equivalent in generating matrix product states.

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@article{arxiv.1802.04904,
  title  = {The Structure of Decoherence-free Subsystems},
  author = {Ji Guan and Yuan Feng and Mingsheng Ying},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.04904},
  year   = {2018}
}
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