Time-inhomogeneous Quantum Markov Chains with Decoherence on Finite State Spaces

Abstract

We introduce and study time-inhomogeneous quantum Markov chains with parameter $\zeta \ge 0$ and decoherence parameter $0\le p\le 1$ on finite spaces and their large scale equilibrium properties. Here $\zeta$ resembles the inverse temperature in the annealing random process and $p$ is the decoherence strength of the quantum system. Numerical evaluations show that if $\zeta$ is small, then quantum Markov chain is ergodic for all $0<p\le 1$ and if $\zeta$ is large, then it has multiple limiting distributions for all $0<p\le 1$. In this paper, we prove the ergodic property in the high temperature region $0\le \zeta \le 1$. We expect that the phase transition occurs at the critical point ${\zeta }_c=1$. For coherence case $p=0$, a critical behavior of periodicity also appears at critical point ${\zeta }_o=2$.

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