An ensemble of multilevel atoms is a good candidate for a quantum information storage device. The information is encrypted in the collective ground state atomic coherence, which, in the absence of external excitation, is decoupled from the vacuum and therefore decoherence free. However, in the process of manipulation of atoms with light pulses (writing, reading), one inadvertently introduces a coupling to the environment, i.e. a source of decoherence. The dissipation process is often treated as an independent process for each atom in the ensemble, an approach which fails at large atomic optical depths where cooperative effects must be taken into account. In this paper, the cooperative behavior of spin decoherence and population transfer for a system of two, driven multilevel-atoms is studied. Not surprisingly, an enhancement in the decoherence rate is found, when the atoms are separated by a distance that is small compared to an optical wavelength; however, it is found that this rate increases even further for somewhat larger separations for atoms aligned along the direction of the driving field's propagation vector. A treatment of the cooperative modification of optical pumping rates and an effect of polarization swapping between atoms is also discussed, lending additional insight into the origin of the collective decay.
We study the behavior of cooperative multiplayer quantum games [35,36] in the presence of decoherence using different quantum channels such as amplitude damping, depolarizing and phase damping. It is seen that the outcomes of the games for the two damping channels with maximum values of decoherence reduce to same value. However, in comparison to phase damping channel, the payoffs of cooperators are strongly damped under the influence\ amplitude damping channel for\ the lower values of decoherence parameter. In the case of depolarizing channel, the game is a no-payoff game irrespective of the d…
Subradiance is the cooperative inhibition of the radiation by several emitters coupled to the same electromagnetic modes. It was predicted by Dicke in 1954 and only recently observed in cold atomic vapors. Here we address the question to what extent this cooperative effect survives outside the limit of frozen two-level systems by studying the subradiant decay in an ensemble of cold atoms as a function of the temperature. Experimentally, we observe only a slight decrease of the subradiant decay time when increasing the temperature up to several millikelvins, and in particular we measure subradi…
A First-principles Computational Framework for Quantum Decoherence in Complex Diamond Spin Environments
Sungkyunkwan University(成均馆大学);Ajou University(亚洲大学);University of Chicago(芝加哥大学);Korea Institute of Science and Technology(韩国科学技术院);Korean Research Institute of Standards and Science(韩国计量科学研究院);Ulm University(乌尔姆大学);Korea University of Science and Technology(韩国科学技术院);Argonne National Laboratory(阿贡国家实验室)
Shortcuts to adiabatic passage for multiparticle in distant cavities: Applications to fast and noise-resistant quantum population transer, entangled states' preparation and transition
A Mean-Field Lindblad Master Equation Framework for Interaction-Driven Decoherence in Solid-State Qubit Ensembles
Department of Chemistry, University of Colorado Boulder(科罗拉多大学博尔德分校化学系);Ann and H.J. Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder(科罗拉多大学博尔德分校安恩和H.J.斯米德航空航天工程科学)
We introduce an almost analytical method to simulate 2D electronic spectra as a double Fourier transform of the the non-linear response function (NRF) corresponding to a particular optical pulse sequence. We employ a unitary transformation to represent the total system Hamiltonian in a stationary basis that allows us to separate contributions from decoherence and phonon-mediated population relaxation to the NRF. Previously, one of us demonstrated the use of an analytic, cumulant expansion approach to calculate the decoherence term. Here, we extend this idea to obtain an accurate expression for…