Coherent Quantum Evolution via Reservoir Driven Holonomies

Angelo Carollo, Marcelo França Santos, and Vlatko Vedral
Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 020403 – Published 18 January 2006

Abstract

We show that in the limit of a strongly interacting environment a system initially prepared in a decoherence-free subspace (DFS) coherently evolves in time, adiabatically following the changes of the DFS. If the reservoir cyclicly evolves in time, the DFS states acquire a holonomy.

  • Received 24 July 2005

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.020403

©2006 American Physical Society

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Angelo Carollo1, Marcelo França Santos2, and Vlatko Vedral3

  • 1DAMTP, University of Cambridge, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge CB3 0WA, United Kingdom
  • 2School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT, United Kingdom
  • 3Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, 30161-970, MG, Brazil

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Vol. 96, Iss. 2 — 20 January 2006

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