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Optical stabilization of voltage fluctuations in half-Josephson lasers
A recently proposed device, dubbed half-Josephson laser, provides a
phase-lock between the optical phase and the superconducting phase difference
between the leads of the device. In this paper we propose to utilize this
phase-lock for stabilization of voltage fluctuations, by two optical feedback
schemes. The first scheme involves a single half-Josephson laser and allows to
significantly decrease the diffusion coefficient of the superconducting phase
difference. The second scheme involves a stable optical source and a
fluctuating half-Josephson laser and permits quenching of the diffusion of the
relative phase of the lasers. This opens up perspectives of the optical control
of the superconducting phase and voltage fluctuations.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figure
Average quantum dynamics of closed systems over stochastic Hamiltonians
We develop a master equation formalism to describe the evolution of the
average density matrix of a closed quantum system driven by a stochastic
Hamiltonian. The average over random processes generally results in decoherence
effects in closed system dynamics, in addition to the usual unitary evolution.
We then show that, for an important class of problems in which the Hamiltonian
is proportional to a Gaussian random process, the 2nd-order master equation
yields exact dynamics. The general formalism is applied to study the examples
of a two-level system, two atoms in a stochastic magnetic field and the heating
of a trapped ion.Comment: 17 pages, 1 figure, submitted to Physical Review
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