1–26 Apr 2019
Nordita, Stockholm
Europe/Stockholm timezone

Decoherence in the space of quantum operations: how to coherify a classical map?

25 Apr 2019, 10:00
1h
122:026 (Nordita, Stockholm)

122:026

Nordita, Stockholm

Speaker

Karol Zyczkowski

Description

Karol Zyczkowski

Decoherence in the space of quantum operations: how to coherify a classical map?

The theory of quantum information processing meets experiment: in view of the emerging field of quantum technologies future theoretical studies will be closer linked to the physical world by considering more realistic systems and putting even more emphasis on interaction of the system in question with environment and the effect of quantum decoherence.
In this talk I will shortly review the standard notion of decoherence and its formal inverse: coherification of a classical probability vector denotes the search of all its preimages with respect to the coarse graining channel, which induces the decoherence.
A similar problem can also be posed for channels: For a given classical map corresponding to a stochastic transition matrix T we look for quantum channel Phi, which induces the same classical transition matrix T, but is "more coherent". To quantify the coherence of a channel Phi we measure the coherence of the corresponding Jamiolkowski state J. We show that a classical transition matrix T can be coherified to a reversible unitary dynamics if and only if T is unistochastic. Otherwise the Jamiolkowski state J of the optimally coherified channel is mixed, and the dynamics must necessarily be irreversible.

References:
[1] K. Korzekwa, S. Czachorski, Z. Puchala and K. Zyczkowski, N.J.Phys. vol 20, 043028 (2018).
[2] K. Korzekwa, S. Czachorski, Z. Puchala and K. Zyczkowski, preprint arXiv:1812.09083

Primary author

Prof. Karol Zyczkowski

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