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Phys. Rev. A 80, 042315 (2009) [6 pages]

Universal existence of exact quantum state transmissions in interacting media

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Lian-Ao Wu1,2,3, Yu-xi Liu3,4,5, and Franco Nori3,6
1IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science, 48011 Bilbao, Spain
2Department of Theoretical Physics and History of Science, The Basque Country University (EHU/UPV), P.O. Box 644, 48080 Bilbao, Spain
3Advanced Science Institute, The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), Wako-shi, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
4Institute of Microelectronics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
5Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
6Center for Theoretical Physics, Physics Department, Center for the Study of Complex Systems, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1120, USA

Received 12 May 2009; revised 1 July 2009; published 19 October 2009

We consider an exact state transmission, where a density matrix in one information processor A at time t=0 is exactly equal to that in another processor B at a later time. We demonstrate that there always exists a complete set of orthogonal states, which can be employed to perform the exact state transmission. Our result is very general in the sense that it holds for arbitrary media between the two processors and for any time interval. We illustrate our results in terms of models of spin, fermionic, and bosonic chains. This complete set can be used as a basis to study the perfect state transfer which is associated with degenerate subspaces of this set of states. Interestingly, this formalism leads to a proposal of perfect state transfer via adiabatic passage, which does not depend on the specific form of the driving Hamiltonian.

© 2009 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.80.042315
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.80.042315
PACS:
03.67.Hk, 37.10.Jk, 75.10.Pq