Abstract

We develop a new approach for solving stochastic master equations with initial mixed quantum state. Thus, we deal with the numerical simulation of, for instance, continuous weak measurements on quantum systems. We focus on finite dimensional quantum state spaces. First, we obtain that the solution of the jump-diffusion stochastic master equation is represented by a mixture of pure states satisfying a system of stochastic differential equations of Schrödinger type. Then, we design three exponential schemes for these coupled stochastic Schröodinger equations, which are driven by Brownian motions and jump processes. The good performance of the new numerical integrators is illustrated by simulating the continuous monitoring of two open quantum systems formed by a quantized electromagnetic field interacting with a two-level system, under the effect of the environment. Hence, we have constructed ecient numerical methods for the stochastic master equations based on the simulation of quantum trajectories that describe the random evolution of interacting wave functions. This is a joint work with C. M. Mora (Universidad de Concepción, Chile) and R. Biscay (C. Centro de Investigación en Matemática, Guanajuato, México).