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Assessing non-Markovian dynamics through moments of the Choi state

Quantum Physics 2024-03-04 v3

Abstract

Non-Markovian effects in open quantum system dynamics usually manifest backflow of information from the environment to the system, indicating complete-positive divisibility breaking of the dynamics. We provide a criterion for witnessing such non-Markovian dynamics exhibiting information backflow, based on the moments of Choi-matrices. The moment condition determined by the positive semi-definiteness of a matrix, does not hold for a Choi-state describing non-Markovian dynamics. We then present some explicit examples in support of our proposed non-Markovianity detection scheme. Finally, a moment based measure of non-Markovianity for unital dynamics is formulated.

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@article{arxiv.2303.03615,
  title  = {Assessing non-Markovian dynamics through moments of the Choi state},
  author = {Bivas Mallick and Saheli Mukherjee and Ananda G. Maity and A. S. Majumdar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.03615},
  year   = {2024}
}

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10 pages, 2 figures, Close to published version