nLab open quantum system

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Quantum systems

quantum logic


quantum physics


quantum probability theoryobservables and states


quantum information


quantum computation

qbit

quantum algorithms:


quantum sensing


quantum communication

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Idea

Consider a pair of quantum systems, QQ and EE, where QQ is some system of interest and EE is some system that is external to QQ and that is in some fixed pure state |e\vert e \rangle. Now let us suppose that the two systems interact and evolve via some unitary operator on the tensor product Hilbert space of each, 𝒬\mathscr{Q} \otimes \mathscr{E}. If one is interested in the \mathscr{E}-trace of density operators on this system, then QQ is known as an open system and EE is the environment.

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