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Master equation for cascade quantum channels: a collisional approach

G. M. PalmaVittorio Giovannetti

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Physicsopen quantum systems quantum correlation collision modelQuantum PhysicsOpen quantum systems dynamicTime evolutionQuantum channelsFOS: Physical sciencesCondensed Matter PhysicsAtomic and Molecular Physics and OpticsSettore FIS/03 - Fisica Della MateriaMultipartiteClassical mechanicsCascadeInteraction pictureMaster equationQuantum systemQuantum InformationRepresentation (mathematics)Quantum Physics (quant-ph)Quantum

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It has been recently shown that collisional models can be used to derive a general form for the master equations which describe the reduced time evolution of a composite multipartite quantum system, whose components "propagate" in an environmental medium which induces correlations among them via a cascade mechanism. Here we analyze the fundamental assumptions of this approach showing how some of them can be lifted when passing into a proper interaction picture representation.

10.1088/0953-4075/45/15/154003http://arxiv.org/abs/1204.1836