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Phenomenological measure of quantum non-Markovianity

Quantum Physics 2019-06-06 v2

Abstract

Non-Markovian effects are ubiquitous in physical quantum systems and remain a significant challenge to achieving high-quality control and reliable quantum computation, but due to their inherent complexity, are rarely characterized. Past approaches to quantifying non-Markovianity have concentrated on small, simple systems, and we show that such measures can capture properties that are irrelevant to applications. With this insight, we propose a method for constructing relevant quantifiers of non-Markovian dynamics and illustrate the scheme's computability by characterizing a model quantum dot array.

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@article{arxiv.1901.00267,
  title  = {Phenomenological measure of quantum non-Markovianity},
  author = {Adam Winick and Joel J. Wallman and Joseph Emerson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.00267},
  year   = {2019}
}