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The quantum-jump approach to dissipative dynamics in quantum optics

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Plenio, M. B., Knight, P. L.·1998·Reviews of Modern Physics
DOI 10.1103/revmodphys.70.101
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Dissipation, the irreversible loss of energy and coherence, from a microsystem is the result of coupling to a much larger macrosystem (or reservoir) that is so large that one has no chance of keeping track of all of its degrees of freedom. The microsystem evolution is then described by tracing over the reservoir states, which results in an irreversible decay as excitation leaks out of the initially excited microsystems into the outer reservoir environment. Earlier treatments of this dissipation used density matrices to describe an ensemble of microsystems, either in the Schr\"odinger picture with master equations, or in the Heisenberg picture with Langevin equations. The development of experimental techniques to study single quantum systems (for example, single trapped ions, or cavity-radiation-field modes) has stimulated the construction of theoretical methods to describe individual realizations conditioned on a particular observation record of the decay channel. These methods, variously described as quantum-jump, Monte Carlo wave function, and quantum-trajectory methods, are the subject of this review article. We discuss their derivation, apply them to a number of current problems in quantum optics, and relate them to ensemble descriptions.

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Authors
Plenio, M. B., & Knight, P. L.
Affiliations
Imperial College London (GB)
ORCID
Venue
Reviews of Modern Physics
Publisher
American Physical Society (APS)
Published
1998-01-01
Volume
70
Issue
1
Pages
101-144
ISSN
  • 0034-6861 (ISSN-L)
  • 1539-0756
DOI
10.1103/revmodphys.70.101
OpenAlex
W2019442644
Cited by
1,515
References
207
Citations by year
2026: 80 · 2025: 88 · 2024: 83 · 2023: 70 · 2022: 90 · 2021: 68 · 2020: 59 · 2019: 100 · 2018: 59 · 2017: 52 · 2016: 58 · 2015: 53 · 2014: 43 · 2013: 56 · 2012: 55
FWCI
20.52
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
link.aps.org/licenses/aps-default-license (vor)
Locations
  • Reviews of Modern Physics (publishedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
  • CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research) (submittedVersion)
  • Spiral (Imperial College London) (submittedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
Funders
  • Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
  • European Commission
  • Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Quantum Mechanics and Applications
  • Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Quantum optics and atomic interactions
  • Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Quantum Information and Cryptography
Keywords
dissipative dynamics, open quantum systems, quantum trajectories, master equation, Langevin equation, decoherence, single quantum system, cavity quantum electrodynamics, trapped ions, quantum optics

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