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Deutsche Physikalische Gessellschaft IOP Institute of Physics

Practical recipes for the model order reduction, dynamical simulation and compressive sampling of large-scale open quantum systems

Focus on Mechanical Systems at the Quantum Limit

John A Sidles1,6, Joseph L Garbini2, Lee E Harrell3, Alfred O Hero4, Jonathan P Jacky1, Joseph R Malcomb2, Anthony G Norman5 and Austin M Williamson2

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Part of Focus on Mechanical Systems at the Quantum Limit

Practical recipes are presented for simulating high-temperature and nonequilibrium quantum spin systems that are continuously measured and controlled. The notion of a spin system is broadly conceived, in order to encompass macroscopic test masses as the limiting case of large-j spins. The simulation technique has three stages: first the deliberate introduction of noise into the simulation, then the conversion of that noise into an equivalent continuous measurement and control process, and finally, projection of the trajectory onto state-space manifolds having reduced dimensionality and possessing a Kähler potential of multilinear algebraic form. These state-spaces can be regarded as ruled algebraic varieties upon which a projective quantum model order reduction (MOR) is performed. The Riemannian sectional curvature of ruled Kählerian varieties is analyzed, and proved to be non-positive upon all sections that contain a rule. These manifolds are shown to contain Slater determinants as a special case and their identity with Grassmannian varieties is demonstrated. The resulting simulation formalism is used to construct a positive P-representation for the thermal density matrix. Single-spin detection by magnetic resonance force microscopy (MRFM) is simulated, and the data statistics are shown to be those of a random telegraph signal with additive white noise. Larger-scale spin-dust models are simulated, having no spatial symmetry and no spatial ordering; the high-fidelity projection of numerically computed quantum trajectories onto low dimensionality Kähler state-space manifolds is demonstrated. The reconstruction of quantum trajectories from sparse random projections is demonstrated, the onset of Donoho–Stodden breakdown at the Candès–Tao sparsity limit is observed, a deterministic construction for sampling matrices is given and methods for quantum state optimization by Dantzig selection are given.


PACS

03.65.Yz Decoherence; open systems; quantum statistical methods

02.10.Ud Linear algebra

03.65.Fd Algebraic methods

02.40.Sf Manifolds and cell complexes

02.40.Ky Riemannian geometries

05.40.Ca Noise

Subjects

Mathematical physics

Statistical physics and nonlinear systems

Quantum information and quantum mechanics

Dates

Issue 6 (June 2009)

Received 8 June 2008

Published 11 June 2009



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