Published February 5, 2010 | Version v1
Journal article

Decoherence recuperating fast environmental dynamics

  • 1. Laboratory for Advanced Spectroscopy and Imaging Research, 4D LABS and Department of Chemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, V5A 1S6 (Canada)

Description

We examine the exact internal decoherence dynamics of a qubit in an isolated Josephson charge-qubit quantum computer in the presence of one- and two-body static internal imperfections. By help of open system dynamics quantifiers, i.e. purity, fidelity, covariance and Loschmidt echo, we distinguish between non-unitary and unitary components of internal decoherence dynamics and show that the non-unitary component consists of two processes: system-environment entanglement and incoherence. Our results indicate that the incoherence process is the major source of internal decoherence rather than system-environment entanglement. We find that strong one-body intra-environmental interactions, which generate fast environmental dynamics, result in a rapid suppression of decoherence induced by both system-environment entanglement and incoherence processes. We explain the mechanisms of suppression of decoherence for these two processes and discuss our results.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1751-8113/43/5/055309

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1088/1751-8113/43/5/055309;
PII
S1751-8113(10)25238-1;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of Physics. A, Mathematical and Theoretical (Online)
Journal Volume
43
Journal Issue
5
Journal Page Range
[19 p.]
ISSN
1751-8121

INIS

Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
41104292
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
INTERACTIONS; QUANTUM COMPUTERS; QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT; QUANTUM MECHANICS; TWO-BODY PROBLEM
Descriptors DEC
COMPUTERS; MANY-BODY PROBLEM; MECHANICS