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Conservation laws protect dynamic spin correlations from decay: Limited role of integrability in the central spin model

Götz S. Uhrig, Johannes Hackmann, Daniel Stanek, Joachim Stolze, and Frithjof B. Anders
Phys. Rev. B 90, 060301(R) – Published 28 August 2014
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Abstract

Mazur's inequality renders statements about persistent correlations possible. We generalize it in a convenient form applicable to any set of linearly independent constants of motion. This approach is used to show rigorously that a fraction of the initial spin correlations persists indefinitely in the isotropic central spin model unless the average coupling vanishes. The central spin model describes a major mechanism of decoherence in a large class of potential realizations of quantum bits. Thus the derived results contribute significantly to the understanding of the preservation of coherence. We will show that persisting quantum correlations are not linked to the integrability of the model but are caused by a finite operator overlap with a finite set of constants of motion.

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  • Received 5 February 2014
  • Revised 19 August 2014

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.90.060301

©2014 American Physical Society

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Götz S. Uhrig1,*, Johannes Hackmann2, Daniel Stanek1, Joachim Stolze1, and Frithjof B. Anders2

  • 1Lehrstuhl für Theoretische Physik I, Technische Universität Dortmund, Otto-Hahn Straße 4, 44221 Dortmund, Germany
  • 2Lehrstuhl für Theoretische Physik II, Technische Universität Dortmund, Otto-Hahn Straße 4, 44221 Dortmund, Germany

  • *goetz.uhrig@tu-dortmund.de

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Vol. 90, Iss. 6 — 1 August 2014

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