How coherence measurements of a qubit steer its quantum environment

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2404.06053v2
• Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2024 07:57:15 GMT
• Title: How coherence measurements of a qubit steer its quantum environment
• Authors: Chu-Dan Qiu, Yuan-De Jin, Jun-Xiang Zhang, Gang-Qin Liu, Wen-Long Ma,
• Abstract summary: We show that a RIM of a qubit induces a quantum channel on the quantum environment. We reveal three distinct environment steering effects -- polarization, depolarization and metastable polarization.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Repetitive Ramsey interferometry measurements (RIMs) are often used to measure qubit coherence, assuming that the environment remains unaffected after each measurement and the outcomes of all measurements are independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.). While this assumption is valid for a classical environment, it may not hold for a quantum environment due to the non-negligible backaction from qubit to environment. Here we present a general theoretical framework to incorporate the measurement backaction from qubit to environment in sequential RIMs. We show that a RIM of a qubit induces a quantum channel on the quantum environment, and sequential RIMs gradually steer the quantum environment to the fixed points of the channel. We reveal three distinct environment steering effects -- polarization, depolarization and metastable polarization, depending on the commutativity of the noise operator $B$ and the free environment Hamiltonian $H_e$: (1) if $B$ commutes with $H_e$, i.e., $[B,H_e]=0$, the quantum environment is gradually polarized to different eigenstates of $B$ as the number $m$ of repetitive RIMs increases; (2) When $[B,H_e]\neq 0$, the quantum environment is gradually depolarized to a maximally mixed state of its whole Hilbert space or a Hilbert subspace; (3) When $[B,H_e]\neq 0$ but one of $H_e$ and $B$ is a small perturbation on the other, metastable polarization can happen, such that the quantum environment is first polarized for a finite range of $m$ but becomes gradually depolarized as $m$ increases further. The environment steering also makes the measurement statistics of sequential RIMs develop non-i.i.d. features, such that the measurement result distribution can display multiple peaks for a small quantum environment, corresponding to different fixed points of the quantum channel.

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