Quantum Decoherence of Two Qubits

Details Quantum Decoherence of Two Qubits Quantum Decoherence of Two Qubits

2009-10-28

arxiv.org/abs/0910.5364v1

Physical Review A 80, 042108 (2009)

Physics

Quantum Physics

5 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.80.042108

It is commonly stated that decoherence in open quantum systems is due to growing entanglement with an environment. In practice, however, surprisingly often decoherence may equally well be described by random unitary dynamics without invoking a quantum environment at all. For a single qubit, for instance, pure decoherence (or phase damping) is always of random unitary type. Here, we construct a simple example of true quantum decoherence of two qubits: we present a feasible phase damping channel of which we show that it cannot be understood in terms of random unitary dynamics. We give a very intuitive geometrical measure for the positive distance of our channel to the convex set of random unitary channels and find remarkable agreement with the so-called Birkhoff defect based on the norm of complete boundedness.

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