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Toward a theory of nonlinear stochastic realization
Bibliography: leaves 14-15."October, 1981" "Feedback and Synthesis of Linear and Nonlinear Systems -Proceedings of the Workshop in Bielefeld, West-Germany, June 22-26, 1981, and Rome Italy, June 29-July 3, 1981.""National Science Foundation Grant ECS-7903731" "Air Force Office of Scientific Research grant AFOSR 78-3519"Anders Lindquist, Sanjoy Mitter, Giorgio Picci
Pulsed Generation of Quantum Coherences and Non-classicality in Light-Matter Systems
We show that a pulsed stimulus can be used to generate many-body quantum
coherences in light-matter systems of general size. Specifically, we calculate
the exact real-time evolution of a driven, generic out-of-equilibrium system
comprising an arbitrary number N qubits coupled to a global boson field. A
novel form of dynamically-driven quantum coherence emerges for general N and
without having to access the empirically challenging strong-coupling regime.
Its properties depend on the speed of the changes in the stimulus.
Non-classicalities arise within each subsystem that have eluded previous
analyses. Our findings show robustness to losses and noise, and have potential
functional implications at the systems level for a variety of nanosystems,
including collections of N atoms, molecules, spins, or superconducting qubits
in cavities -- and possibly even vibration-enhanced light harvesting processes
in macromolecules.Comment: 9 pages, 4 figure
Geometry and response of Lindbladians
Markovian reservoir engineering, in which time evolution of a quantum system
is governed by a Lindblad master equation, is a powerful technique in studies
of quantum phases of matter and quantum information. It can be used to drive a
quantum system to a desired (unique) steady state, which can be an exotic phase
of matter difficult to stabilize in nature. It can also be used to drive a
system to a unitarily-evolving subspace, which can be used to store, protect,
and process quantum information. In this paper, we derive a formula for the map
corresponding to asymptotic (infinite-time) Lindbladian evolution and use it to
study several important features of the unique state and subspace cases. We
quantify how subspaces retain information about initial states and show how to
use Lindbladians to simulate any quantum channels. We show that the quantum
information in all subspaces can be successfully manipulated by small
Hamiltonian perturbations, jump operator perturbations, or adiabatic
deformations. We provide a Lindblad-induced notion of distance between
adiabatically connected subspaces. We derive a Kubo formula governing linear
response of subspaces to time-dependent Hamiltonian perturbations and determine
cases in which this formula reduces to a Hamiltonian-based Kubo formula. As an
application, we show that (for gapped systems) the zero-frequency Hall
conductivity is unaffected by many types of Markovian dissipation. Finally, we
show that the energy scale governing leakage out of the subspaces, resulting
from either Hamiltonian/jump-operator perturbations or corrections to adiabatic
evolution, is different from the conventional Lindbladian dissipative gap and,
in certain cases, is equivalent to the excitation gap of a related Hamiltonian.Comment: Published version. See related talk at
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