Indirect control invariance of Decoherence-Splitting Manifold (DSM)
EDMOND A. JONCKHEERE, Alireza Shabani, A. T. Rezakhani · 2014
Quantum coherence of open quantum systems is usually compromised because of the interaction with the ambient environment. Here, we introduce the concept of Decoherence Splitting Manifold (DSM), a submanifold of the space of density operators, wherein the system's density matrix clearly exhibits a splitting between a unitarily evolving subdensity corresponding to some given set of its eigenvalues, which we aim to preserve, and another subdensity, in which eigenvalues are not preserved. The eigenspace of the eigenvalues that are preserved provides the concept of (time-varying) Decoherence Protected Subspace (DPS), a concept that subtlety differs from the (time-varying) Decoherence Free Subspace (DFS) in the way the protected subspace is embedded in the full Hilbert space. With the DSM concept, the DPS is reformulated as a complex vector bundle over the DSM. In the absence of the traditional DFS, looking for less restrictive spaces and/or utilizing quantum control may help generate and/or retain a decoherence-free subevolution. This is achieved by searching for a DSM whose tangent bundle distribution is invariant under indirect control of an auxiliary qubit.