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Generation and Coherent Control of Pulsed Quantum Frequency Combs
Published on: June 8, 2018
From classical chaotic systems to quantum qubits and qutrits
1Department of Mathematics, Shandong University, Weihai 264209, Shandong, China.
Abstract:
In this article, a quantum analogue of a classical chaotic system is constructed, using the Chen system and a generalized Lorenz system as an example. It is shown that if a classical system in R3 has a chaotic attractor, then a corresponding quantized system can be obtained by the density matrix theory in quantum mechanics. Furthermore, a direct transformation can be used to ensure that the basin of attraction contains the unit Bloch ball with the attractor located in its interior. As an application, a natural model for the Chen qubit is constructed and then extended to the generalized Lorenz qubit. Moreover, the Chen qutrit model is established.
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