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Quantifying Non-Markovianity with Temporal Steering

Quantum Physics 2016-07-25 v3

Abstract

Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) steering is a type of quantum correlation which allows one to remotely prepare, or steer, the state of a distant quantum system. While EPR steering can be thought of as a purely spatial correlation there does exist a temporal analogue, in the form of single-system temporal steering. However, a precise quantification of such temporal steering has been lacking. Here we show that it can be measured, via semidefinite programming, with a temporal steerable weight, in direct analogy to the recently proposed EPR steerable weight. We find a useful property of the temporal steerable weight in that it is a non-increasing function under completely-positive trace-preserving maps and can be used to define a sufficient and practical measure of strong non-Markovianity.

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@article{arxiv.1503.00836,
  title  = {Quantifying Non-Markovianity with Temporal Steering},
  author = {Shin-Liang Chen and Neill Lambert and Che-Ming Li and Adam Miranowicz and Yueh-Nan Chen and Franco Nori},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1503.00836},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

4 pages, 2 figures, plus supplementary information. Updated title to match the published version

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