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Unraveling the Large Deviation Statistics of Markovian Open Quantum Systems

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Peer-reviewed

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Article

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Authors

Carollo, F 
Jack, RL 
Garrahan, JP 

Abstract

We analyze dynamical large deviations of quantum trajectories in Markovian open quantum systems in their full generality. We derive a quantum level-2.5 large deviation principle for these systems, which describes the joint fluctuations of time-averaged quantum jump rates and of the time-averaged quantum state for long times. Like its level-2.5 counterpart for classical continuous-time Markov chains (which it contains as a special case), this description is both explicit and complete, as the statistics of arbitrary time-extensive dynamical observables can be obtained by contraction from the explicit level-2.5 rate functional we derive. Our approach uses an unraveled representation of the quantum dynamics which allows these statistics to be obtained by analyzing a classical stochastic process in the space of pure states. For quantum reset processes we show that the unraveled dynamics is semi-Markovian and derive bounds on the asymptotic variance of the number of quantum jumps which generalize classical thermodynamic uncertainty relations. We finish by discussing how our level-2.5 approach can be used to study large deviations of nonlinear functions of the state, such as measures of entanglement.

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0202 Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics

Journal Title

Physical Review Letters

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Journal ISSN

0031-9007
1079-7114

Volume Title

122

Publisher

American Physical Society

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Sponsorship
This work was supported by EPSRC Grants No. EP/ M014266/1 (J. P. G.) and No. EP/N03404X/1 (F. C. and J. P. G.), and by the European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007-2013)/ERC Grant Agreement No. 335266 (ESCQUMA) (F. C.).