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Quantum entanglement, a fundamental property ensuring security of key distribution and efficiency of quantum computing, is extremely sensitive to decoherence. Different procedures have been developed in order to recover entanglement after…

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Coherent superposition of electronic states, created by ionizing a molecule, can initiate ultrafast dynamics of the electron density. Correlation between nuclear and electron motions, however, typically dissipates the electronic coherence…

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We consider the decoherence of photons suffering in phase-damping channels. By exploring the evolutions of single-photon polarization states and two-photon polarization-entangled states, we find that different frequency spectrum envelopes…

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Molecular spins offer promise in emerging quantum technologies such as quantum sensing and computing. At low temperatures, nuclear spin-spin interactions affect electron spin coherence lifetimes through pure dephasing. Nuclear-spin noise…

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Decoherence is usually deemed detrimental to quantum information processing. Its control and minimization require significant costs and operating overheads, constituting a major hurdle to commercialize quantum technology. Yet, quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 Yifan Du , Jiuyi Zhang , Daniel López Martínez , Misagh Izadi , Yuping Huang

We consider continuum dielectric models as minimal models to understand the effect of a surrounding globular protein and solvent on the quantum dynamics of electronic excitations in a biological chromophore. We derive expressions for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-06-25 Joel Gilmore , Ross H. McKenzie

Irradiation of a molecular system by an intense laser field can trigger dynamics of both electronic and nuclear subsystems. The lighter electrons usually move on much faster, attosecond time scale but the slow nuclear rearrangement damps…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 Nikolay V. Golubev , Tomislav Begušić , Jiří Vaníček

The dominant source of decoherence for an electron spin in a quantum dot is the hyperfine interaction with the surrounding bath of nuclear spins. The decoherence process may be slowed down by subjecting the electron spin to suitable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Wenxian Zhang , V. V. Dobrovitski , Lea F. Santos , Lorenza Viola , B. N. Harmon

Coherent quantum phenomena can only emerge when decoherence is minimized, and mastery over decoherence is technologically crucial for designing and operating functional quantum devices. However, its microscopic mechanisms in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-01 Xian-Peng Zhang , Yan-Qing Feng , Haiwen Liu , Wanxiang Feng , Yugui Yao

Coherence is a fundamental characteristic of quantum systems and central to understanding quantum behaviour. It is also important for a variety of applications in quantum information. However, physical systems suffer from decoherence due to…

The ability to design quantum systems that decouple from environmental noise sources is highly desirable for development of quantum technologies with optimal coherence. The chemical tunability of electronic states in magnetic molecules…

Recent advances in numerically exact quantum dynamics methods have brought the dream of accurately modeling the dynamics of chemically complex open systems within reach. Path-integral-based methods, hierarchical equations of motion (HEOM)…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-04-08 Roman Korol , Xinxian Chen , Ignacio Franco

We develop an ultrafast frequency-resolved Raman spectroscopy with entangled photons for polyatomic molecules in condensed phases, to probe the electronic and vibrational coherences. Using quantum correlation between the photons, the signal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-23 Zhedong Zhang , Tao Peng , Xiaoyu Nie , Girish S. Agarwal , Marlan O. Scully

Decoherence is the major stumbling block in the realization of a large-scale quantum computer. Ingenious methods have been devised to overcome decoherence, but their success has been proven only for over-simplified models of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Andrew P. Hines , P. C. E. Stamp

We develope a theory of a fundamental effect of the interaction-induced decoherence of the electron wave function in a disordered metal. With the aid of the Keldysh technique and the path integral formalism we derive a formally exact…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Dmitrii S. Golubev , Andrei D. Zaikin

The mechanism of decoherence for a quantum system with rotational degrees of freedom is studied. From a simple model of elastic scattering, we show that the non-diagonal density matrix elements of the system exponentially decay. The decay…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-18 Changchun Zhong , F. Robicheaux

Electronic coherences are key to understanding and controlling photo-induced molecular transformations. We identify a crucial quantum-mechanical feature of electron-nuclear correlation, the projected nuclear quantum momenta, essential to…

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It is discussed the decoherence problems in ensemble large-scale solid state NMR quantum computer based on the array of P donor atoms having nuclear spin I = 1/2. It is considered here, as main mechanisms of decoherence for low temperature…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. A. Kokin

Interaction of solid state qubits with environmental degrees of freedom strongly affects the qubit dynamics, and leads to decoherence. In quantum information processing with solid state qubits, decoherence significantly limits the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-02-26 Luca Chirolli , Guido Burkard

Assessing the role of interference in natural and artificial quantum dyanamical processes is a crucial task in quantum information theory. To this aim, an appopriate formalism is provided by the decoherent histories framework. While this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-13 Michele Allegra , Paolo Giorda , Seth Lloyd