Copyright (C) 2011 and later, Paul D. Nation & Robert J. Johansson
Warning: WIP: Requires latest development version of QuTiP.
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%pylab inline
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from qutip import *
Homodyne and hetrodyne detection are techniques for measuring the quadratures of a field using photocounters. Homodyne detection (on-resonant) measures one quadrature and with heterodyne detection (off-resonant) both quadratures can be detected simulateously.
The evolution of a quantum system that is coupled to a field that is monitored with homodyne and heterodyne detector can be described with stochastic master equations. This notebook compares two different ways to implement the heterodyne detection stochastic master equation in QuTiP.
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N = 15
w0 = 1.0 * 2 * pi
A = 0.1 * 2 * pi
times = linspace(0, 15, 150)
gamma = 0.25
ntraj = 200
nsubsteps = 250
a = destroy(N)
x = a + a.dag()
y = -1.0j*(a - a.dag())
H = w0 * a.dag() * a + A * (a + a.dag())
rho0 = coherent(N, sqrt(5.0), method='analytic')
c_ops = [sqrt(gamma) * a]
e_ops = [a.dag() * a, x, y]
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result_ref = mesolve(H, rho0, times, c_ops, e_ops)
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plot_expectation_values(result_ref);
Stochastic master equation for heterodyne in Milburn's formulation
$\displaystyle d\rho(t) = -i[H, \rho(t)]dt + \gamma\mathcal{D}[a]\rho(t) dt + \frac{1}{\sqrt{2}} dW_1(t) \sqrt{\gamma} \mathcal{H}[a] \rho(t) + \frac{1}{\sqrt{2}} dW_2(t) \sqrt{\gamma} \mathcal{H}[-ia] \rho(t)$
where $\mathcal{D}$ is the standard Lindblad dissipator superoperator, and $\mathcal{H}$ is defined as above, and $dW_i(t)$ is a normal distributed increment with $E[dW_i(t)] = \sqrt{dt}$.
In QuTiP format we have:
$\displaystyle d\rho(t) = -i[H, \rho(t)]dt + D_{1}[A]\rho(t) dt + D_{2}^{(1)}[A]\rho(t) dW_1 + D_{2}^{(2)}[A]\rho(t) dW_2$
where $A = \sqrt{\gamma} a$, so we can identify
$\displaystyle D_{1}[A]\rho = \gamma \mathcal{D}[a]\rho = \mathcal{D}[A]\rho$
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def d1_rho_func(A, rho_vec):
return A[7] * rho_vec
$D_{2}^{(1)}[A]\rho = \frac{1}{\sqrt{2}} \sqrt{\gamma} \mathcal{H}[a] \rho = \frac{1}{\sqrt{2}} \mathcal{H}[A] \rho = \frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}(A\rho + \rho A^\dagger - \mathrm{Tr}[A\rho + \rho A^\dagger] \rho) \rightarrow \frac{1}{\sqrt{2}} \left\{(A_L + A_R^\dagger)\rho_v - \mathrm{Tr}[(A_L + A_R^\dagger)\rho_v] \rho_v\right\}$
$D_{2}^{(2)}[A]\rho = \frac{1}{\sqrt{2}} \sqrt{\gamma} \mathcal{H}[-ia] \rho = \frac{1}{\sqrt{2}} \mathcal{H}[-iA] \rho = \frac{-i}{\sqrt{2}}(A\rho - \rho A^\dagger - \mathrm{Tr}[A\rho - \rho A^\dagger] \rho) \rightarrow \frac{-i}{\sqrt{2}} \left\{(A_L - A_R^\dagger)\rho_v - \mathrm{Tr}[(A_L - A_R^\dagger)\rho_v] \rho_v\right\}$
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def d2_rho_func(A, rho_vec):
B = A[0] + A[3]
e1 = expect_rho_vec(B, rho_vec)
drho1 = B * rho_vec - e1 * rho_vec
B = A[0] - A[3]
e1 = expect_rho_vec(B, rho_vec)
drho2 = B * rho_vec - e1 * rho_vec
return [1.0/sqrt(2) * drho1, -1.0j/sqrt(2) * drho2]
The heterodyne currents for the $x$ and $y$ quadratures are
$J_x(t) = \left<x\right> + \sqrt{2} \xi(t)$
$J_y(t) = \left<y\right> + \sqrt{2} \xi(t)$
where $\xi(t) = \frac{dW}{dt}$.
In qutip we define these measurement operators using the m_ops = [[x, y]] and the coefficients to the noise terms dW_factor = [sqrt(2), sqrt(2)].
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result = smesolve(H, rho0, times, [], c_ops, e_ops,
ntraj=ntraj, nsubsteps=nsubsteps,
d1=d1_rho_func, d2=d2_rho_func, d2_len=2, dW_factors=[sqrt(2), sqrt(2)], m_ops=[[x, y]],
distribution='normal', store_measurement=True)
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plot_expectation_values([result, result_ref]);
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fig, ax = subplots(figsize=(8,4))
for m in result.measurement:
ax.plot(times, m[:, 0, 0].real, 'b', alpha=0.05)
ax.plot(times, m[:, 0, 1].real, 'r', alpha=0.05)
ax.plot(times, result_ref.expect[1], 'b', lw=2);
ax.plot(times, result_ref.expect[2], 'r', lw=2);
ax.set_xlim(0, times.max())
ax.set_xlabel('time', fontsize=12)
ax.plot(times, array(result.measurement).mean(axis=0)[:,0,0].real, 'k', lw=2);
ax.plot(times, array(result.measurement).mean(axis=0)[:,0,1].real, 'k', lw=2);
We can also write the heterodyne equation as
$\displaystyle d\rho(t) = -i[H, \rho(t)]dt + \frac{1}{2}\gamma\mathcal{D}[a]\rho(t) dt + \frac{1}{\sqrt{2}} dW_1(t) \sqrt{\gamma} \mathcal{H}[a] \rho(t) + \frac{1}{2}\gamma\mathcal{D}[a]\rho(t) dt + \frac{1}{\sqrt{2}} dW_2(t) \sqrt{\gamma} \mathcal{H}[-ia] \rho(t)$
And using the QuTiP format for two stochastic collapse operators, we have:
$\displaystyle d\rho(t) = -i[H, \rho(t)]dt + D_{1}[A_1]\rho(t) dt + D_{2}[A_1]\rho(t) dW_1 + D_{1}[A_2]\rho(t) dt + D_{2}[A_2]\rho(t) dW_2$
so we can also identify
$\displaystyle D_{1}[A_1]\rho = \frac{1}{2}\gamma \mathcal{D}[a]\rho = \mathcal{D}[\sqrt{\gamma}a/\sqrt{2}]\rho = \mathcal{D}[A_1]\rho$
$\displaystyle D_{1}[A_2]\rho = \frac{1}{2}\gamma \mathcal{D}[a]\rho = \mathcal{D}[-i\sqrt{\gamma}a/\sqrt{2}]\rho = \mathcal{D}[A_2]\rho$
$D_{2}[A_1]\rho = \frac{1}{\sqrt{2}} \sqrt{\gamma} \mathcal{H}[a] \rho = \mathcal{H}[A_1] \rho$
$D_{2}[A_2]\rho = \frac{1}{\sqrt{2}} \sqrt{\gamma} \mathcal{H}[-ia] \rho = \mathcal{H}[A_2] \rho $
where $A_1 = \sqrt{\gamma} a / \sqrt{2}$ and $A_2 = -i \sqrt{\gamma} a / \sqrt{2}$.
In summary we have
$\displaystyle d\rho(t) = -i[H, \rho(t)]dt + \sum_i\left\{\mathcal{D}[A_i]\rho(t) dt + \mathcal{H}[A_i]\rho(t) dW_i\right\}$
which is a simultaneous homodyne detection with $A_1 = \sqrt{\gamma}a/\sqrt{2}$ and $A_2 = -i\sqrt{\gamma}a/\sqrt{2}$
Here the two heterodyne currents for the $x$ and $y$ quadratures are
$J_x(t) = \left<x\right> + \sqrt{2} \xi(t)$
$J_y(t) = \left<y\right> + \sqrt{2} \xi(t)$
where $\xi(t) = \frac{dW}{dt}$.
In qutip we can use the predefined homodyne solver for solving this problem.
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result = smesolve(H, rho0, times, [], [sqrt(gamma/2) * a, -1.0j * sqrt(gamma/2) * a],
e_ops, ntraj=ntraj, nsubsteps=nsubsteps, m_ops=[[x], [y]], dW_factors=[sqrt(2)],
method='homodyne', store_measurement=True)
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plot_expectation_values([result, result_ref]);
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fig, ax = subplots(figsize=(8,4))
for m in result.measurement:
ax.plot(times, m[:, 0].real, 'b', alpha=0.05)
ax.plot(times, m[:, 1].real, 'r', alpha=0.05)
ax.plot(times, result_ref.expect[1], 'b', lw=2);
ax.plot(times, result_ref.expect[2], 'r', lw=2);
ax.set_xlim(0, times.max())
ax.set_ylim(-15, 15)
ax.set_xlabel('time', fontsize=12)
ax.plot(times, array(result.measurement).mean(axis=0)[:,0].real, 'k', lw=2);
ax.plot(times, array(result.measurement).mean(axis=0)[:,1].real, 'k', lw=2);
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result = smesolve(H, rho0, times, [], [sqrt(gamma) * a],
e_ops, ntraj=ntraj, nsubsteps=nsubsteps,
method='heterodyne', store_measurement=True)
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plot_expectation_values([result, result_ref]);
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fig, ax = subplots(figsize=(8,4))
for m in result.measurement:
ax.plot(times, m[:, 0, 0].real, 'b', alpha=0.05)
ax.plot(times, m[:, 0, 1].real, 'r', alpha=0.05)
ax.plot(times, result_ref.expect[1], 'b', lw=2);
ax.plot(times, result_ref.expect[2], 'r', lw=2);
ax.set_xlim(0, times.max())
ax.set_ylim(-15, 15)
ax.set_xlabel('time', fontsize=12)
ax.plot(times, array(result.measurement).mean(axis=0)[:, 0, 0].real, 'k', lw=2);
ax.plot(times, array(result.measurement).mean(axis=0)[:, 0, 1].real, 'k', lw=2);
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from qutip.ipynbtools import version_table
version_table()
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