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Q: Fachverband Quantenoptik und Photonik
Q 11: Quantum effects: Entanglement and decoherence I
Q 11.3: Talk
Monday, March 17, 2014, 14:30–14:45, DO24 Reuter Saal
Quantum Darwinism and the Appearance of Classicality: A model based on Random Unitary Operations (RUO) — •Nenad Balaneskovic1, Gernot Alber1, and Jaroslav Novotny1,2 — 1Institut für Angewandte Physik, Technische Universität Darmstadt, D-64289 Darmstadt, Germany — 2Department of Physics, FNSPE, Czech Technical University in Prague, 115 19 Praha 1 - Stare Mesto, Czech Republic
We discuss characteristic properties of pure decoherence and Quantum Darwinism (QD) [1] based on qubit-models of open systems interacting with their respective environment by iterated and randomly applied controlled-NOT-type operations [2]. From the analytically determined asymptotic dynamics of the resulting quantum Markov chain the QD-appearance of Classicality and its connection to König-digraph interaction (KDI) models [3] of pure decoherence can be investigated. KDI comprise environmental qubits which do not interact among themselves by unitary quantum operations and are thus suitable to physically describe objective quantum measurements performed on an open system by autonomous observers (environmental qubits). KDI model also accounts for the most efficient storage of classical information of a system into its environment. Since the efficiency of the mentioned information storage is also connected with Zurek's concept of QD, we address physical limits of the QD-concept within our RUO approach. [1] W. H. Zurek, Nature Physics 5, 181-188 (2009). [2] Novotny, J., Alber, G., Jex, I., Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 090501 (2011). [3] Brualdi, R.: "A Combinatorial Approach to Matrix Theory" (T&F, London, 2011).