# Non-Markovian quantum control as coherent stochastic trajectories

@article{Sakuldee2018NonMarkovianQC,
title={Non-Markovian quantum control as coherent stochastic trajectories},
author={Fattah Sakuldee and Simon Milz and Felix A. Pollock and Kavan Modi},
journal={Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical},
year={2018},
volume={51}
}
• Published 9 February 2018
• Physics
• Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical
We develop a notion of stochastic quantum trajectories. First, we construct a basis set of trajectories, called elementary trajectories, and go on to show that any quantum dynamical process, including those that are non-Markovian, can be expressed as a linear combination of this set. We then show that the set of processes divide into two natural classes: those that can be expressed as a convex mixture of elementary trajectories and those that cannot be. The former are shown to be entanglement…
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