Structure and Parametrization of Generic Stochastic Maps of Density Matrices

Details Structure and Parametrization of Generic Stochastic Maps of Density Matrices Structure and Parametrization of Generic Stochastic Maps of Density Matrices

2002-05-09

arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0205051v2

J. Phys. A, 36, 5073-5081 (2003)

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Quantum Physics

8 pages

Scientific paper

10.1088/0305-4470/36/18/312

The most general evolution of the density matrix of a quantum system with a finite-dimensional state space is by stochastic maps which take a density matrix linearly into the set of density matrices. These dynamical stochastic maps form a linear convex set that may be viewed as supermatrices. The property of hermiticity of density matrices renders an associated supermatrix hermitian and hence diagonalizable. The positivity of the density matrix does not make the associated supermatrix positive though. If the map itself is positive, it is called completely positive and they have a simple parameterization. This is extended to all positive (not completely positive) maps. A general dynamical map that does not preserve the norm of the density matrices it acts on can be thought of as the contraction of a norm-preserving map of an extended system. The reconstruction of such extended dynamics is also given.

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