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Non-Markovianity of colored noisy channels

Quantum Physics 2014-03-07 v3

Abstract

We address the non-Markovian character of quantum maps describing the interaction of a qubit with a random classical field. In particular, we evaluate trace- and capacity-based non-Markovianity measures for two relevant classes of environments showing non-Gaussian fluctuations, described respectively by random telegraph noise and colored noise with spectra of the the form 1/fα1/f^\alpha. We analyze the dynamics of both the trace distance and the quantum capacity, and show that the behavior of non-Markovianity based on both measures is qualitatively similar. Our results show that environments with a spectrum that contains a relevant low-frequency contribution are generally non-Markovian. We also find that the non-Markovianity of colored environments decreases when the number of fluctuators realizing the environment increases.

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@article{arxiv.1309.5270,
  title  = {Non-Markovianity of colored noisy channels},
  author = {C. Benedetti and M. G. A. Paris and S. Maniscalco},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1309.5270},
  year   = {2014}
}

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9 pages, 5 figures