Speaker
Mr
Daniel Grimmer
(University of Waterloo)
Description
We investigate the general open dynamics of a quantum system S undergoing a bombardment of short (unitary) interactions with an environment made of individual ancillas. We show how decoherence emerges from the fully unitary interaction of S with a large set of (in general non-identical) ancillas, and we compute the master equation that governs the dynamics of the system. Our findings may have applications in a range of fields both fundamental and applied: from the Quantum Zeno effect and the very foundations of the measurement problem to the study of decoherence and quantum thermodynamics.
Authors
Mr
Daniel Grimmer
(University of Waterloo)
David Layden
Eduardo Martin-Martinez
(Institute for Quantum Computing (University of Waterloo) and Perimeter Instittute for Theoretical Physics)
