Discrimination of thermal baths by single-qubit probes

Nonequilibrium states of quantum systems in contact with thermal baths help distinguishing between environments with different temperatures or different statistics. We extend these studies to a more generic problem that consists in discriminating between two baths with disparate constituents at uneq...

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Main Authors: Ilaria Gianani, Donato Farina, Marco Barbieri, Valeria Cimini, Vasco Cavina, Vittorio Giovannetti
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2020-09-01
Series:Physical Review Research
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.033497