Published September 12, 2008 | Version v1
Journal article

The globally stable solution of a stochastic nonlinear Schroedinger equation

  • 1. Fritz Haber Research Center for Molecular Dynamics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904 (Israel)

Description

Weak measurement of a subset of noncommuting observables of a quantum system can be modeled by the open-system evolution, governed by the master equation in the Lindblad form. The open-system density operator can be represented as a statistical mixture over non-unitarily evolving pure states, driven by the stochastic nonlinear Schroedinger equation (sNLSE). The globally stable solution of the sNLSE is obtained in the case where the measured subset of observables comprises the spectrum-generating algebra of the system. This solution is a generalized coherent state (GCS), associated with the algebra. The result is based on proving that the GCS minimizes the trace-norm of the covariance matrix, associated with the spectrum-generating algebra

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Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1751-8113/41/36/365203

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1088/1751-8113/41/36/365203;
PII
S1751-8113(08)82254-8;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of Physics. A, Mathematical and Theoretical (Online)
Journal Volume
41
Journal Issue
36
Journal Page Range
[10 p.]
ISSN
1751-8121