Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Hörnedal, Niklas, Prośniak, Oskar A., del Campo, Adolfo, Chenu, Aurélia
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
Subjects:
Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.13913
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1866910926803828736
author Hörnedal, Niklas
Prośniak, Oskar A.
del Campo, Adolfo
Chenu, Aurélia
author_facet Hörnedal, Niklas
Prośniak, Oskar A.
del Campo, Adolfo
Chenu, Aurélia
contents Non-Hermitian dynamics in quantum systems preserves the rank of the state density operator. Using this insight, we develop a geometric framework to describe its time evolution. In particular, we identify mutually orthogonal coherent and incoherent directions and provide their physical interpretation. This understanding enables us to optimize the success rate of non-Hermitian driving along prescribed trajectories, with direct relevance to shortcuts to adiabaticity. Next, we explore the geometric interpretation of a speed limit for non-Hermitian Hamiltonians and analyze its tightness. We derive the explicit expression that saturates this bound and illustrate our results with a minimal example of a dissipative qubit.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2405_13913
institution arXiv
publishDate 2024
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle A geometrical description of non-Hermitian dynamics: speed limits in finite rank density operators
Hörnedal, Niklas
Prośniak, Oskar A.
del Campo, Adolfo
Chenu, Aurélia
Quantum Physics
Non-Hermitian dynamics in quantum systems preserves the rank of the state density operator. Using this insight, we develop a geometric framework to describe its time evolution. In particular, we identify mutually orthogonal coherent and incoherent directions and provide their physical interpretation. This understanding enables us to optimize the success rate of non-Hermitian driving along prescribed trajectories, with direct relevance to shortcuts to adiabaticity. Next, we explore the geometric interpretation of a speed limit for non-Hermitian Hamiltonians and analyze its tightness. We derive the explicit expression that saturates this bound and illustrate our results with a minimal example of a dissipative qubit.
title A geometrical description of non-Hermitian dynamics: speed limits in finite rank density operators
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.13913