Optimal Decoherence Control in non-Markovian Open, Dissipative Quantum Systems

TL;DR

This paper develops an optimal control framework for non-Markovian open quantum systems, demonstrating how engineered reservoirs and temperature influence decoherence dynamics, with non-Markovian control outperforming Markovian approaches.

Contribution

It derives the Pontryagin maximum principle for non-Markovian quantum systems and compares the effectiveness of engineered reservoirs in controlling decoherence.

Findings

Optimal control significantly affects decoherence dynamics.

Temperature critically influences decoherence control.

Non-Markovian reservoirs outperform Markovian ones in decoherence suppression.

Abstract

We investigate the optimal control problem for non-Markovian open, dissipative quantum system. Optimal control using Pontryagin maximum principle is specifically derived. The influences of Ohmic reservoir with Lorentz-Drude regularization are numerically studied in a two-level system under the following three conditions: \omega_0\ll\omega_c, \omega_0\approx\omega_c or \omega_0\gg\omega_c, where \omega_0 is the characteristic frequency of the quantum system of interest, and \omega_c the cut-off frequency of Ohmic reservoir. The optimal control process shows its remarkable influences on the decoherence dynamics. The temperature is a key factor in the decoherence dynamics. We analyze the optimal decoherence control in high temperature, intermediate temperature, and low temperature reservoirs respectively. It implies that designing some engineered reservoirs with the controlled coupling and state of the environment can slow down the decoherence rate and delay the decoherence time. Moreover, we compare the non-Markovian optimal decoherence control with the Markovian one and find that with non-Markovian the engineered artificial reservoirs are better than with the Markovian approximation in controlling the open, dissipative quantum system's decoherence.