Tunneling of bosonic qubits under local dephasing through microscopic approach
Abstract
We present a microscopic derivation of a master equation for two-component bosons (bosonic qubits) which tunnel between spatially separated modes under local dephasing noise. Starting from the full system-bath Hamiltonian with Lorentzian coupling distributions, we analytically obtain a time-local master equation whose structure reveals intrinsic non-Markovian features and recovers the standard phenomenological dephasing model in the short-time limit. Comparison with exact pseudomode simulations confirms its validity beyond weak-coupling and Markovian regimes. We identify a resonance condition between tunneling and bath frequencies for which dephasing drives the system towards correlated steady states, stabilizing coherence and entanglement instead of suppressing them. These results establish a rigorous microscopic foundation for dephasing models in bosonic tunneling systems and reveal a noise-induced mechanism for steady-state entanglement.
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@article{arxiv.2509.05704,
title = {Tunneling of bosonic qubits under local dephasing through microscopic approach},
author = {Alberto Ferrara and Farzam Nosrati and Andrea Smirne and Jyrki Piilo and Rosario Lo Franco},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.05704},
year = {2026}
}
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20 pages, 13 figures