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Tanmay Saha

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arXiv2024

Post-Markovian master equation \`{a} la microscopic collisional model

We derive a completely positive post-Markovian master equation (PMME) from a microscopic Markovian collisional model framework, incorporating bath memory effects via a probabilistic single-shot measurement approach. This phenomenological master equation is both analytically solvable and numerically tractable. Depending on the choice of the memory kernel function, the PMME can be reduced to the exact Nakajima-Zwanzig equation or the Markovian master equation, enabling a broad spectrum of dynamical behaviors. We also investigate thermalization using the derived equation, revealing that the post-Markovian dynamics accelerates the thermalization process, exceeding rates observed within the Markovian framework. Our approach solidifies the assertion that "collisional models can simulate any open quantum dynamics", underscoring the versatility of the models in realizing open quantum systems.

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arXiv2024

Repeater-Based Quantum Communication Protocol: Maximizing Teleportation Fidelity with Minimal Entanglement

Transmitting unknown quantum states to distant locations is crucial for distributed quantum information protocols. The seminal quantum teleportation scheme achieves this feat while requiring prior maximal entanglement between the sender and receiver. In scenarios with noisy entangled states, optimal teleportation fidelity characterizes the efficacy of transmitting the state, demanding the proper selection of local operations at the sender's and receiver's ends. The complexity escalates further in long-range communication setups, prompting the consideration of a repeater-based approach, which incorporates arrays of nodes with multiple segments to facilitate the efficient transmission of quantum information. The fidelity of the communication line gets degraded even if a single segment is affected by noise. In such cases, the general wisdom employs the standard entanglement swapping protocol involving maximally entangled states across the noiseless segments and applying maximally entangled basis measurement at the corresponding nodes to achieve optimal fidelity. In this Letter, we propose a more efficient protocol for a certain class of noisy states in any intermediary segment, achieving the same fidelity as the standard protocol while consuming less amount of entanglement. Our approach ensures enhanced teleportation fidelity even when the end-to-end state gets noisier, and thus promises efficient utility of quantum resources in repeater-based distributed quantum protocols.

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arXiv2024

Convex Optimization Approaches to Optimal Teleportation Fidelity in Linear Three-Party Networks

We study the maximum achievable quantum teleportation fidelity between two distant parties, Alice and Charlie, where each of them share a bipartite quantum state only with a common intermediary, Bob, and all parties are allowed to perform {\it Local Operations and Classical Communication} (LOCC). As the structure of LOCC is complicated, we relax the set of free operations to separable (SEP) operations and formulate a convex optimization problem that provides upper bounds on the LOCC achievable fidelity value. We observe that the complexity of such optimization problem reduces significantly if we restrict ourselves to a subclass of SEP operations, where the Kraus operators of either Alice or Charlie are proportional to unitary operators, leading to a simplified convex optimization that matches the general LOCC limit for certain two-qubit states. Through explicit examples, we show that protocols initiated by Bob by performing measurements in a maximally entangled basis are not necessarily optimal, and alternative strategies can outperform them. Finally, we extend our analysis to linear networks and demonstrate that different LOCC strategies can achieve the same optimal fidelity while consuming different amounts of entanglement content.

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arXiv2022

Bond current in a mesoscopic ring -- signature of decoherence due to classical and quantum noise

A three-site mesoscopic ring provides an ideal setting for an exact calculation of the bond current when the ring is threaded by an Aharonov-Bohm flux. The bond current is a measurable outcome of the coherent properties of the quantum phase. However the coherence is impeded by noise when the ring is put in contact with an environment. This coherence-to-incoherence transition is analyzed in detail here for both classical (Gaussian and telegraphic) and quantum noise and a comparative assessment is made when the quantum noise is governed by a spin-boson Hamiltonian of dissipative quantum mechanics.

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arXiv2022

Quantum homogenization in non-Markovian collisional model

Collisional models are a category of microscopic framework designed to study open quantum systems. The framework involves a system sequentially interacting with a bath comprised of identically prepared units. In this regard, quantum homogenization is a process where the system state approaches the identically prepared state of bath unit in the asymptotic limit. Here, we study the homogenization process for a single qubit in the non-Markovian collisional model framework generated via additional bath-bath interaction. With partial swap operation as both system-bath and bath-bath unitary, we numerically demonstrate that homogenization is achieved irrespective of the initial states of the system or bath units. This is reminiscent of the Markovian scenario, where partial swap is the unique operation for a universal quantum homogenizer. On the other hand, we observe that the rate of homogenization is slower than its Markovian counter part. Interestingly, a different choice of bath-bath unitary speeds up the homogenization process but loses the universality, being dependent on the initial states of the bath units.

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arXiv2020

Thermalization of isolated quantum many-body system and the role of entanglement

Thermalization of an isolated quantum system has been a nontrivial problem since the early days of quantum mechanics. In generic isolated quantum systems, nonequilibrium dynamics is expected to result in thermalization, indicating the emergence of statistical mechanics from quantum dynamics. However, what feature of a many-body quantum system facilitates quantum thermalization is still not well understood. Recent experimental advancements have shown that entanglement may act as a thermalizing agent, not universally but particularly. Here, we theoretically show that the thermal averages of an observable in an isolated many-body quantum system with a large number of degrees of freedom emerge from the entangled energy eigenstates of the system. In particular, we show that the expectation values of an observable in entangled energy eigenstates and its marginals are equivalent to the microcanonical and canonical averages of the observable.

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