Maximally non-Markovian quantum dynamics without environment-to-system backflow of information

The degree of non-Markovianity allows one to characterize quantum evolutions that depart from a Markovian regime in a similar way as the Schmidt number measures the degree of entanglement of pure states. Maximally non-Markovian dynamics are analogous to maximally entangled states [D. Chruściński and...

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Autor: Budini, Adrian Adolfo
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:Argentina
Institución:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Repositorio:CONICET Digital (CONICET)
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/98301
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11336/98301
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Open quantum systems
Decoherence
Quantum Measurement theory
Quantum Fluctuations
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Sumario:The degree of non-Markovianity allows one to characterize quantum evolutions that depart from a Markovian regime in a similar way as the Schmidt number measures the degree of entanglement of pure states. Maximally non-Markovian dynamics are analogous to maximally entangled states [D. Chruściński and S. Maniscalco, Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 120404 (2014)PRLTAO0031-900710.1103/PhysRevLett.112.120404]. Here we demonstrate that there exists a class of maximally non-Markovian quantum evolutions where the associated environment (degrees of freedom not belonging to the system) obeys a Markovian (memoryless) dynamics, which in turn is unperturbed by the system state or dynamics. These properties imply the absence of any "physical environment-to-system backflow of information." Non-Markovian features (as usual in quantum systems coupled to dissipative classical degrees of freedom) arise from a unidirectional dependence of the system dynamics on the reservoir states.