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Phys. Rev. A 73, 062321 (2006) [4 pages]

Universal destabilization and slowing of spin-transfer functions by a bath of spins

Daniel Burgarth and Sougato Bose
Department of Physics & Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
Received 24 January 2006; published 14 June 2006

We investigate the effect of a spin bath on the spin-transfer functions of a permanently coupled spin system. When each spin is coupled to a separate environment, the effect on the transfer functions in the first excitation sector is amazingly simple: the group velocity is slowed down by a factor of 2, and the fidelity is destabilized by a modulation of |cos  Gt|, where G is the mean square coupling to the environment.

©2006 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.73.062321
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.73.062321
PACS: 03.67.Mn; 05.50.+q; 03.65.Yz; 05.60.Gg
  • 03.67.Mn
    Quantum entanglement production, characterization, and manipulation
  • 05.50.+q
    Lattice theory and statistics including Ising, Potts models, etc
  • 03.65.Yz
    Decoherence; open systems; quantum statistical methods
  • 05.60.Gg
    Quantum transport
  • YEAR: 2006
KEYWORDS: spin systems, transfer functions

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