Witnessing quantum coherence in the presence of noise

Autor: Alex Monras, Agata Chęcińska, Artur Ekert
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2014
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Zdroj: New Journal of Physics, Vol 16, Iss 6, p 063041 (2014)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1367-2630
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/16/6/063041
Popis: We address the problem of assessing the coherent character of physical evolution. We take the quantum Zeno effect (QZE) as a characteristic trait of quantum dynamics, and derive relations among transfer rates as a function of the strength of a measurement. These relations support the intuition that only quantum dynamics is susceptible to the QZE. With the derived bounds on the magnitude of coherent dynamics, we propose an experimentally viable coherence witness. Our results have potential application in assessing the coherence of quantum transport in biological and other complex many-body systems.
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