English

Assessing the quantumness of a damped two-level system

Quantum Physics 2018-05-31 v1

Abstract

We perform a detailed analysis of the nonclassical properties of a damped two-level system. We compute and compare three different criteria of quantumness, the l1l_1-norm of coherence, the Leggett- Garg inequality and a quantum witness based on the no-signaling in time condition. We show that all three quantum indicators decay exponentially in time as a result of the coupling to the thermal reservoir. We further demonstrate that the corresponding characteristic times are identical and given by the coherence half-life. These results quantify how violations of Leggett-Garg inequalities and nonzero values of the quantum witness are connected to the coherence of the two-level system.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.1610.07626,
  title  = {Assessing the quantumness of a damped two-level system},
  author = {Alexander Friedenberger and Eric Lutz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.07626},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

8 pages, 6 figures

R2 v1 2026-06-22T16:30:07.248Z