Open Quantum Systems
David Cory, MIT, Lorenza Viola, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Tue Jan 29, Wed Jan 30, Thu Jan 31, 01-03:00pm, NW14
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: Quantum Mechanics
While somehow neglected in quantum mechanics textbooks, open quantum systems are ubiquitous in real life -- simply because no real system can be perfectly insulated from interactions with the outside world. No matter how weak these interactions, the evolution of an open system is eventually plagued by quantum noise effects that drastically change the closed-system picture we are most accustomed to. These lectures will revisit basic facts about open quantum systems from a quantum information processing perspective -- by introducing, in particular, the tools needed for describing quantum noise and the options available for counteracting its effects.
Contact: David Cory, MIT, NW14-2217, x3-3806, dcory@mit.edu
Sponsor: Nuclear Engineering
Latest update: 03-Nov-2001
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