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Complete positivity, finite temperature effects, and additivity of noise for time-local qubit dynamics

Quantum Physics 2016-05-11 v1

Abstract

We present a general model of qubit dynamics which entails pure dephasing and dissipative time-local master equations. This allows us to describe the combined effect of thermalisation and dephasing beyond the usual Markovian approximation. We investigate the complete positivity conditions and introduce a heuristic model that is always physical and provides the correct Markovian limit. We study the effects of temperature on the non-Markovian behaviour of the system and show that the noise additivity property discussed by Yu and Eberly in Ref. [1] holds beyond the Markovian limit.

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@article{arxiv.1511.07202,
  title  = {Complete positivity, finite temperature effects, and additivity of noise for time-local qubit dynamics},
  author = {Juho Lankinen and Henri Lyyra and Boris Sokolov and Jose Teittinen and Babak Ziaei and Sabrina Maniscalco},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.07202},
  year   = {2016}
}

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6 pages, 2 figures