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Non-Markovian quantum jumps from measurements in bipartite Markovian dynamics

Quantum Physics 2013-09-03 v1

Abstract

The quantum jump approach allows to characterize the stochastic dynamics associated to an open quantum system submitted to a continuous measurement action. In this paper we show that this formalism can consistently be extended to non-Markovian system dynamics. The results rely in studying a measurement process performed on a bipartite arrangement characterized by a Markovian Lindblad evolution. Both a renewal and non-renewal extensions are found. The general structure of non-local master equations that admit an unravelling in terms of the corresponding non-Markovian trajectories are also found. Studying a two-level system dynamics, it is demonstrated that non-Markovian effects such as an environment-to-system flow of information may be present in the ensemble dynamics.

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@article{arxiv.1309.0118,
  title  = {Non-Markovian quantum jumps from measurements in bipartite Markovian dynamics},
  author = {Adrian A. Budini},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1309.0118},
  year   = {2013}
}

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13 pages, 3 figures