Friday, July 13, 2012

1207.3053 (Vladimír Bužek et al.)

Direct estimation of decoherence rates    [PDF]

Vladimír Bužek, Peter Rapcan, Jochen Rau, Mario Ziman
The decoherence rate is a nonlinear channel parameter that describes quantitatively the decay of the off-diagonal elements of a density operator in the decoherence basis. We address the question of how to experimentally access such a nonlinear parameter directly without the need of complete process tomography. In particular, we design a simple experiment working with two copies of the channel, in which the registered mean value of a two-valued measurement directly determines the value of the average decoherence rate. No prior knowledge of the decoherence basis is required.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1207.3053

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