Control of open quantum systems: case study of the central spin model
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We study the controllability of a central spin guided by a classical field and interacting with a spin bath and show that the central spin is fully controllable independently of the number of bath spins. Additionally we find that for unequal system-bath couplings even the bath becomes controllable by acting on the central spin alone. We then analyze numerically how the time to implement gates on the central spin scales with the number of bath spins and conjecture that for equal system-bath couplings it reaches a saturation value. We provide evidence that sometimes noise can be effectively suppressed through control.
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- Authors
- Arenz, C., Gualdi, G., & Burgarth, D.
- Affiliations
- Aberystwyth University (GB)
- Quantum Science and Technology in Arcetri (IT)
- ORCID
- Burgarth, Daniel
- Venue
- New Journal of Physics
- Publisher
- IOP Publishing
- Published
- 2014-06-26
- Volume
- 16
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 065023
- ISSN
- 1367-2630 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2129194736
- Cited by
- 39
- References
- 45
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- FWCI
- 3.65
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- New Journal of Physics (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation (25915)
- Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca (2010LLKJBX)
- Università degli Studi di Firenze
- Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara (PHY-11-25915)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Quantum Information and Cryptography
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Quantum and electron transport phenomena
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture
- Keywords
- open quantum systems, controllability, central spin model, spin bath, system-bath coupling, noise reduction, quantum control
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