Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2025 iii Paper 343 1 d Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
In a quantum-trajectory unravelling, a pure state evolves between jumps underand a jump of type sends to . Averaging over the stochastic jump records recovers .
Equivalently, over a short interval use the operators in a Kraus representationand the Stinespring dilation . Iterating with fresh environment systems produces a pure system-environment history whose partial trace is the Lindblad evolution.
If the fixed point is pure, stationarity requires for every , together with preservation of its ray by the adjusted effective Hamiltonian. After shifting the jumps one may take it to be a dark state of a Lindblad equation. Once a trajectory reaches that ray, neither no-jump evolution nor a jump takes it away; in the example of part (c), a jump transfers any excited component directly into the singlet.