Noise-assisted and monitoring-enhanced quantum bath tagging
arXiv:2202.12239 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.106.042609
Abstract
We analyze the capability of discriminating the statistical nature of a thermal bath by exploiting the interaction with an additional environment. We first shows that, at difference with the standard scenario where the additional environment is not present, the modified evolution induced by the mere presence of the extra bath allows to improve the discrimination task. We then also consider the possibility of continuously monitoring the additional environment and we discuss in detail how to obtain improved performances in the discrimination by considering different kinds of interaction, i.e. different jump operators, and different monitoring strategies corresponding to continuous homodyne and photo-detection. Our strategy can be in principle implemented in a circuit QED setup and paves the way to further developments of quantum probing via continuous monitoring.
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