Coherent quantum evolution via reservoir driven holonomies

Phys Rev Lett. 2006 Jan 20;96(2):020403. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.020403. Epub 2006 Jan 18.

Abstract

We show that in the limit of a strongly interacting environment a system initially prepared in a decoherence-free subspace (DFS) coherently evolves in time, adiabatically following the changes of the DFS. If the reservoir cyclicly evolves in time, the DFS states acquire a holonomy.