Entropic uncertainty relations for Markovian and non-Markovian processes under a structured bosonic reservoir

<p dir="ltr">The uncertainty relation is a fundamental limit in quantum mechanics and is of great importance to quantum information processing as it relates to quantum precision measurement. Due to interactions with the surrounding environment, a quantum system will unavoidably suffe...

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Main Author: Dong Wang (73290) (author)
Other Authors: Ai-Jun Huang (17686386) (author), Ross D. Hoehn (1836382) (author), Fei Ming (9581589) (author), Wen-Yang Sun (19725391) (author), Jia-Dong Shi (19725394) (author), Liu Ye (1414804) (author), Sabre Kais (1409968) (author)
Published: 2017
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Summary:<p dir="ltr">The uncertainty relation is a fundamental limit in quantum mechanics and is of great importance to quantum information processing as it relates to quantum precision measurement. Due to interactions with the surrounding environment, a quantum system will unavoidably suffer from decoherence. Here, we investigate the dynamic behaviors of the entropic uncertainty relation of an atom-cavity interacting system under a bosonic reservoir during the crossover between Markovian and non-Markovian regimes. Specifically, we explore the dynamic behavior of the entropic uncertainty relation for a pair of incompatible observables under the reservoir-induced atomic decay effect both with and without quantum memory. We find that the uncertainty dramatically depends on both the atom-cavity and the cavity-reservoir interactions, as well as the correlation time, <i>τ</i>, of the structured reservoir. Furthermore, we verify that the uncertainty is anti-correlated with the purity of the state of the observed qubit-system. We also propose a remarkably simple and efficient way to reduce the uncertainty by utilizing quantum weak measurement reversal. Therefore our work offers a new insight into the uncertainty dynamics for multi-component measurements within an open system, and is thus important for quantum precision measurements.</p><h2>Other Information</h2><p dir="ltr">Published in: Scientific Reports<br>License: <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0" target="_blank">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0</a><br>See article on publisher's website: <a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-01094-8" target="_blank">https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-01094-8</a></p>