Characterization of a quasi-static environment with a qubit

Abstract

We consider a qubit initalized in a superposition of its pointer states, exposed to pure dephasing due to coupling to a quasi-static environment, and subjected to a sequence of single-shot measurements projecting it on chosen superpositions. We show how with a few of such measurements one can significantly diminish one's ignorance about the environmental state, and how this leads to increase of coherence of the qubit interacting with a properly post-selected environmental state. We give theoretical results for the case of a quasi-static environment that is a source of an effective field of Gaussian statistics acting on a qubit, and for a nitrogen-vacancy center qubit coupled to a nuclear spin bath, for which the Gaussian model applies qualitatively provided one excludes from the environment nuclei that are strongly coupled to the qubit. We discuss the reason for which the most probable sequences of measurement results are the ones consisting of identical outcomes, and in this way we shed light on recent experiment (D. D. Bhaktavatsala Rao et al., arXiv:1804.07111) on nitrogen-vacancy centers.

arXiv comment16 pages, 11 figures

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