Finding the Kraus decomposition from a master equation and vice versa
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Andersson, Erika
Cresser, James D
Hall, Michael JW
Griffith University Author(s)
Year published
2007
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For any master equation which is local in time, whether Markovian, non-Markovian, of Lindblad form or not, a general procedure is given for constructing the corresponding linear map from the initial state to the state at time t, including its Kraus-type representations. Formally, this is equivalent to solving the master equation. For an N-dimensional Hilbert space it requires (i) solving a first order N 2 2 matrix time evolution (to obtain the completely positive map), and (ii) diagonalizing a related N 2 2 matrix (to obtain a Kraus-type representation). Conversely, for a given time-dependent linear map, a necessary and ...
View more >For any master equation which is local in time, whether Markovian, non-Markovian, of Lindblad form or not, a general procedure is given for constructing the corresponding linear map from the initial state to the state at time t, including its Kraus-type representations. Formally, this is equivalent to solving the master equation. For an N-dimensional Hilbert space it requires (i) solving a first order N 2 2 matrix time evolution (to obtain the completely positive map), and (ii) diagonalizing a related N 2 2 matrix (to obtain a Kraus-type representation). Conversely, for a given time-dependent linear map, a necessary and sufficient condition is given for the existence of a corresponding master equation, where the (not necessarily unique) form of this equation is explicitly determined. It is shown that a "best possible" master equation may always be defined, for approximating the evolution in the case that no exact master equation exists. Examples involving qubits are given.
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View more >For any master equation which is local in time, whether Markovian, non-Markovian, of Lindblad form or not, a general procedure is given for constructing the corresponding linear map from the initial state to the state at time t, including its Kraus-type representations. Formally, this is equivalent to solving the master equation. For an N-dimensional Hilbert space it requires (i) solving a first order N 2 2 matrix time evolution (to obtain the completely positive map), and (ii) diagonalizing a related N 2 2 matrix (to obtain a Kraus-type representation). Conversely, for a given time-dependent linear map, a necessary and sufficient condition is given for the existence of a corresponding master equation, where the (not necessarily unique) form of this equation is explicitly determined. It is shown that a "best possible" master equation may always be defined, for approximating the evolution in the case that no exact master equation exists. Examples involving qubits are given.
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Journal Title
Journal of Modern Optics
Volume
54
Issue
12
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© 2007 Taylor & Francis. This is an electronic version of an article published in Journal of Modern Optics, Vol.54(12), 2007, pp.1695-1716. Journal of Modern Optics is available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com with the open URL of your article.
Subject
Mathematical aspects of classical mechanics, quantum mechanics and quantum information theory
Atomic, molecular and optical physics
Quantum physics
Quantum optics and quantum optomechanics
Quantum physics not elsewhere classified
Nanotechnology