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Experimental investigation of the effect of classical noise on quantum non-Markovian dynamics

Quantum Physics 2020-07-27 v1

Abstract

We provide an experimental study of the relationship between the action of different classical noises on the dephasing dynamics of a two-level system and the non-Markovianity of the quantum dynamics. The two-level system is encoded in the photonic polarization degrees of freedom and the action of the noise is obtained via a spatial light modulator, thus allowing for an easy engineering of different random environments. The quantum non-Markovianity of the dynamics driven by classical Markovian and non-Markovian noise, both Gaussian and non-Gaussian, is studied by means of the trace distance. Our study clearly shows the different nature of the notion of non-Markovian classical process and non-Markovian quantum dynamics.

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@article{arxiv.1909.01113,
  title  = {Experimental investigation of the effect of classical noise on quantum non-Markovian dynamics},
  author = {Simone Cialdi and Claudia Benedetti and Dario Tamascelli and Stefano Olivares and Matteo G. A. Paris and Bassano Vacchini},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.01113},
  year   = {2020}
}

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9 pages, 5 figures