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Conditional cooling limit for a quantum channel going through an incoherent environment

Quantum Physics 2015-11-25 v2

Abstract

We propose and experimentally verify a cooling limit for a quantum channel going through an incoherent environment. The environment consists of a large number of independent non-interacting and non-interfering elementary quantum systems - qubits. The qubits travelling through the channel can only be randomly replaced by environmental qubits. We investigate a conditional cooling limit that exploits an additional probing output. The limit specifies when the single-qubit channel is quantum, i.e. it preserves entanglement. It is a fundamental condition for entanglement-based quantum technology.

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@article{arxiv.1509.03144,
  title  = {Conditional cooling limit for a quantum channel going through an incoherent environment},
  author = {Ivo Straka and Martina Miková and Michal Mičuda and Miloslav Dušek and Miroslav Ježek and Radim Filip},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1509.03144},
  year   = {2015}
}

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5 pages, 4 figures, 1 sputnik

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