Stabilizing open quantum systems by Markovian reservoir engineering
- 8 June 2010
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 81 (6)
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.81.062306
Abstract
We study open quantum systems whose evolution is governed by a master equation of Kossakowski-Gorini-Sudarshan-Lindblad type and give a characterization of the convex set of steady states of such systems based on the generalized Bloch representation. It is shown that an isolated steady state of the Bloch equation cannot be a center, i.e., that the existence of a unique steady state implies attractivity and global asymptotic stability. Necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of a unique steady state are derived and applied to different physical models, including two- and four-level atoms, (truncated) harmonic oscillators, and composite and decomposable systems. It is shown how these criteria could be exploited in principle for quantum reservoir engineeing via coherent control and direct feedback to stabilize the system to a desired steady state. We also discuss the question of limit points of the dynamics. Despite the nonexistence of isolated centers, open quantum systems can have nontrivial invariant sets. These invariant sets are center manifolds that arise when the Bloch superoperator has purely imaginary eigenvalues and are closely related to decoherence-free subspaces. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.81.062306 © 2010 The American Physical SocietyKeywords
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