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Generation and Coherent Control of Pulsed Quantum Frequency Combs
Published on: June 8, 2018
Master equation and control of an open quantum system with leakage
Lian-Ao Wu1, Gershon Kurizki, Paul Brumer
1Center for Quantum Information and Quantum Control and Chemical Physics Theory Group, Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H6, Canada.
Abstract:
Given a multilevel system coupled to a bath, we use a Feshbach P, Q partitioning technique to derive an exact trace-nonpreserving master equation for a subspace S_{i} of the system. The resultant equation properly treats the leakage effect from S_{i} into the remainder of the system space. Focusing on a second-order approximation, we show that a one-dimensional master equation is sufficient to study problems of quantum state storage and is a good approximation, or exact, for several analytical models. It allows a natural definition of a leakage function and its control and provides a general approach to study and control decoherence and leakage. Numerical calculations on an harmonic oscillator coupled to a room temperature harmonic bath show that the leakage can be suppressed by the pulse control technique without requiring ideal pulses.
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