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In quantum metrology and quantum simulation, a coherent non-classical state must be manipulated before unwanted interactions with the environment lead to decoherence. In atom interferometry, the non-classical state is a spatial…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-08-19 Cristian D. Panda , Matthew Tao , James Egelhoff , Miguel Ceja , Victoria Xu , Holger Müller

In this paper, we study decoherence in continuous-time quantum walks (CTQWs) on one-dimension regular networks. For this purpose, we assume that every node is represented by a quantum dot continuously monitored by an individual point…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-10-20 S. Salimi , R. Radgohar

Quantum decoherence plays a pivotal role in the dynamical description of the quantum-to-classical transition and is the main impediment to the realization of devices for quantum information processing. This paper gives an overview of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-15 Maximilian Schlosshauer

We study the extent to which the outcomes of a quantum measurement can be manipulated by changing the state of the measurement apparatus. The measurement process is modeled as decoherence induced by the experimenter, to gain knowledge about…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-29 Muzaffar Qadir Lone , Chris Nagele , Brad Weslake , Tim Byrnes

The measurement-based feedback (MBF) control offers several powerful means for preparing the desired target quantum state. Therefore, it is important to investigate fundamental properties of MBF. In particular, how the entropy of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-02 Kohei Kobayashi

We describe the decoherence process induced on a two-level quantum system in direct interaction with a non-equilibrium environment. The non-equilibrium feature is represented by a non-stationary random function corresponding to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Fernando C. Lombardo , Paula I. Villar

Electronic coherence is of utmost importance for the access and control of quantum-mechanical solid-state properties. Using a purely electronic observable, the photocurrent, we measure an electronic coherence time of 22 +/- 4 fs in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-08 Christian Heide , Timo Eckstein , Tobias Boolakee , Constanze Gerner , Heiko B. Weber , Ignacio Franco , Peter Hommelhoff

With the advent of Belle II and the LHCb upgrade, the precision measurements of various B-Physics observables are on cards. This holds significant potential for delving into physics beyond the standard model of electroweak interactions.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-14 Ashutosh Kumar Alok , Subhashish Banerjee , Neetu Raj Singh Chundawat , S. Uma Sankar

Distribution functions defined in accord with the quantum theory of measurement are combined with results obtained from the quantum Langevin equation to discuss decoherence in quantum Brownian motion. Closed form expressions for wave packet…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 G. W. Ford , J. T. Lewis , R. F. O'Connell

This paper studies quantum limits to dynamical sensors in the presence of decoherence. A modified purification approach is used to obtain tighter quantum detection and estimation error bounds for optical phase sensing and optomechanical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-07-04 Mankei Tsang

Emergent quantum technologies have led to increasing interest in decoherence - the processes that limit the appearance of quantum effects and turn them into classical phenomena. One important cause of decoherence is the interaction of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Lucia Hackermueller , Klaus Hornberger , Bjoern Brezger , Anton Zeilinger , Markus Arndt

In an externally driven multilevel quantum system observation that the NEXT jump has not yet happened affects its future development. In previous work [Phys. Rev. A36, 929 (1987)] it was shown that this class of measurement makes it…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-24 Massimo Porrati , Nicholas Penthorn , John Rooney , Hong Wen Jiang , Seth Putterman

In this paper, we study the quantum decoherence induced by accumulation of electron tunnelings during the quantum measurement of a charge qubit. The charge qubit is a single electron confined in coupled quantum dots. The measurement of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Ming-Tsung Lee , Wei-Min Zhang

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…

Quantum properties of the probes used to estimate a classical parameter can be used to attain accuracies that beat the standard quantum limit. When qubits are used to construct a quantum probe, it is known that initializing $n$ qubits in an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Anil Shaji , Carlton M. Caves

I demonstrate a simple example of how the time series obtained from searches for ultralight bosonic dark matter (DM), such as the axion, can be used to determine whether it is in a coherent or incoherent quantum state. The example is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-11-28 David J. E. Marsh

One of the main postulates of quantum mechanics is that measurements destroy quantum coherence (wave function collapse). Recently it was discovered that in a many-body system dilute local measurements still preserve some coherence across…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-13 Aleksei Khindanov , Igor L. Aleiner , Lara Faoro , Lev B. Ioffe

We point out that even at the absolute zero of temperature environmental decoherence limits the destructive interference between time-reversed paths for an electron in a disordered metal, and thus causes the leading (`weak localization')…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-02-03 Maxim Vavilov , Vinay Ambegaokar

The problem concerning the minimum time for an initial state to evolve up to a target state plays an important role in the Classic Optimal Control theory. In the quantum context, as quantum states are so sensitive to environmental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-01 Alexandre Coutinho Lisboa , Jose Roberto Castilho Piqueira

Decoherence in Nature has become one of the most pressing problems in physics. Many applications, including quantum information processing, depend on understanding it; and fundamental theories going beyond quantum mechanics have been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-27 S. Takahashi , I. S. Tupitsyn , J. van Tol , C. C. Beedle , D. N. Hendrickson , P. C. E. Stamp