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Protecting Qutrit Quantum Coherence

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High dimensional quantum system plays a vital role in quantum information processing. However, decoherence induced by the coupling between quantum system and environment often destroys quantum resource. In this paper, we study the dynamics and protection of qutrit quantum coherence (QC) under amplitude damping (AD) decoherence. We propose two schemes to protect QC. We find that the first scheme can not always protect QC and the second scheme has prominent advantage over the first scheme. In addition, better protection requires lower success probability (SP).

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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61502179), the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province of China (Grant No. 2014A030310265), the Guangdong Province Office of Education (Grant No. 2014KTSCX130), the Key Project of Department of Education of Guangdong Province (No. 2014KZDXM055), and the Science Foundation for Young Teachers of Wuyi University (Grant No. 2015zk01),

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  1. School of Economics and Management, Wuyi University, Jiangmen, 529020, China

    Zhiming Huang & Lianghui Zhao

  2. School of Computer Science, Wuyi University, Jiangmen, 529020, China

    Zhenbang Rong

  3. School of Mathematics and Computational Science, Wuyi University, Jiangmen, 529020, China

    Xiangfu Zou

  4. College of Mathematics and Informatics, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, 510642, China

    Haozhen Situ

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Huang, Z., Rong, Z., Zou, X. et al. Protecting Qutrit Quantum Coherence. Int J Theor Phys 56, 2540–2550 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10773-017-3407-6

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