dc.contributor.author | Hall, Michael JW | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-05-03T16:06:09Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-05-03T16:06:09Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2008 | |
dc.date.modified | 2012-03-06T05:48:13Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1751-8113 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1088/1751-8113/41/20/205302 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10072/42437 | |
dc.description.abstract | It is shown that if the decoherence matrix corresponding to a qubit master equation has a block-diagonal real part, then the evolution is determined by a one-dimensional oscillator equation. Further, when the full decoherence matrix is block-diagonal, then the necessary and sufficient conditions for completely positive evolution may be formulated in terms of the oscillator Hamiltonian or Lagrangian. When the solution of the oscillator equation is not known, an explicit sufficient condition for complete positivity can still be obtained, based on a Hamiltonian/Lagrangian inequality. A rotational form-invariance property is used to characterize the evolution via a single first-order nonlinear differential equation, enabling some further exact results to be obtained. A class of master equations is identified for which complete positivity reduces to the simpler condition of positivity. | |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Yes | |
dc.description.publicationstatus | Yes | |
dc.format.extent | 173899 bytes | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language | English | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.publisher | Institute of Physics Publishing | |
dc.publisher.place | United Kingdom | |
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublication | N | |
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom | 205302-1 | |
dc.relation.ispartofpageto | 205302-14 | |
dc.relation.ispartofissue | 20 | |
dc.relation.ispartofjournal | Journal of Physics A | |
dc.relation.ispartofvolume | 41 | |
dc.rights.retention | Y | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Mathematical sciences | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Mathematical aspects of classical mechanics, quantum mechanics and quantum information theory | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Physical sciences | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Quantum information, computation and communication | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 49 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 490203 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 51 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 510803 | |
dc.title | Complete positivity for time-dependent qubit master equations | |
dc.type | Journal article | |
dc.type.description | C1 - Articles | |
dc.type.code | C - Journal Articles | |
gro.rights.copyright | © 2011 Institute of Physics Publishing. This is the author-manuscript version of this paper. Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher.Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version. | |
gro.date.issued | 2008 | |
gro.hasfulltext | Full Text | |
gro.griffith.author | Hall, Michael J. | |