Course Identification

Quantum open systems and measurements
20231092

Lecturers and Teaching Assistants

Prof. Gershon Kurizki, Dr. Ephraim Shahmoon
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Course Schedule and Location

2023
Second Semester
Sunday, 14:15 - 17:00, Weissman, Seminar Rm A
23/04/2023
21/07/2023

Field of Study, Course Type and Credit Points

Physical Sciences: Lecture; Elective; Regular; 2.00 points
Chemical Sciences: Lecture; Elective; Regular; 2.00 points

Comments

The grades for the course will be composed of 2 exercises and a written discussion.

Prerequisites

Course in Quantum Mechanics (preferably 1 and 2).

Restrictions

100

Language of Instruction

English

Attendance and participation

Expected and Recommended

Grade Type

Numerical (out of 100)

Grade Breakdown (in %)

15%
10%
75%

Evaluation Type

Final assignment

Scheduled date 1

04/09/2023
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Estimated Weekly Independent Workload (in hours)

3

Syllabus

Quantum Open Systems and Measurements

1 Quantum  Measurements and Decoherence: The Pointer Basis

 2. Decoherence as Non-Reversibility: Markovian and Non-Markovian Coarse-Grained Evolution

3. Quantum Zeno and anti-Zeno Effects

4. Master Equations

 5. Protection from Decoherence:

a. Decoherence Free subspaces

b. Dynamical Control of Decoherence

6. Many-body decoherence and superradiance

a. Quantum Electrodynamics (QED)  of dipole-dipole interactions and collective radiation: master equation and Heisenberg-Langevin formulations

b. Dicke superradiance

c. Driven dissipative systems: Dicke phase transition, entanglement and dissipative Ising models

7. Control of Non-Markovian Thermodynamic Processes

a. Impulsive Perturbations and Measurements

b. Post- Measurement Heating and Cooling

 

8. The Principles of Thermodynamics for Quantum Systems

a. Heat currents

b. Entropy production

 

9. Quantum Heat Machines

a. Work and Heat in Quantized Setups

b. Refrigeration in Quantized Setups

c. Quantum bath purification.

 

10. Work-Information Relation

a. Maxwell’s Demon.

b. The Landauer Bound in Quantum Open Systems.

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course students should be able to:

  1. Understand quantum measurements, their rapport with quantum open systems,  decoherence and its control, quantum thermodynamics and information.

Reading List

Kurizki and Kofman, Thermodynamics and Control of Open Quantum Systems (Cambridge UP, 2022); Breuer and Petruccione, Open  Quantum Systems (Oxford UP)

Website

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