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Realistic quantum mechanical systems are always exposed to an external environment. The presence of the environment often gives rise to a Markovian process in which the system loses information to its surroundings. However, many quantum…

We consider a quantum emitter ("atom") radiating in a one-dimensional (1D) photonic waveguide in the presence of a single mirror, resulting in a delay differential equation for the atomic amplitude. We carry out a systematic analysis of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-03 Tommaso Tufarelli , M. S. Kim , Francesco Ciccarello

The duration, strength and structure of memory effects are crucial properties of physical evolution. Due to the invasive nature of quantum measurement, such properties must be defined with respect to the probing instruments employed. Here,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-18 Yu Guo , Philip Taranto , Bi-Heng Liu , Xiao-Min Hu , Yun-Feng Huang , Chuan-Feng Li , Guang-Can Guo

We construct a general measure for the degree of non-Markovian behavior in open quantum systems. This measure is based on the trace distance which quantifies the distinguishability of quantum states. It represents a functional of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-01-05 Heinz-Peter Breuer , Elsi-Mari Laine , Jyrki Piilo

A complete treatment of the entanglement of two-level systems, which evolves through the contact with a thermal bath, must include the fact that the system and the bath are not fully separable. Therefore, quantum coherent superpositions of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Arend G. Dijkstra , Yoshitaka Tanimura

We study the dynamics of a quantum system whose interaction with an environment is described by a collision model, i.e. the open dynamics is modelled through sequences of unitary interactions between the system and the individual…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-31 Steve Campbell , Francesco Ciccarello , G. Massimo Palma , Bassano Vacchini

When dealing with system-reservoir interactions in an open quantum system, such as a photosynthetic light-harvesting complex, approximations are usually made to obtain the dynamics of the system. One question immediately arises: how good…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-06 Hong-Bin Chen , Neill Lambert , Yuan-Chung Cheng , Yueh-Nan Chen , Franco Nori

We investigate the ability of correlation measures to witness non-Markovian open quantum system dynamics. It is shown that the mutual information and any entanglement measure between the system and an ancilla do not witness all…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-12 Dario De Santis , Markus Johansson , Bogna Bylicka , Nadja K. Bernardes , Antonio Acín

Recently there has been an intense effort to understand measurement induced transitions, but we still lack a good understanding of non-Markovian effects on these phenomena. To that end, we consider two coupled chains of free fermions, one…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-18 Mikheil Tsitsishvili , Dario Poletti , Marcello Dalmonte , Giuliano Chiriacò

We define non-Markovian quantum dynamics as evolution in which the current state depends on all past states, and completely characterize its structure under the assumptions of complete positivity and non-signalling. The resulting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-07 Serhii Kryhin , Vivishek Sudhir

The understanding of memory effects arising from the interaction between system and environment is a key for engineering quantum thermodynamic devices beyond the standard Markovian limit. We study the performance of measurement-based…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-14 Obinna Abah , Mauro Paternostro

The character of evolution of an open quantum system is often encoded in the correlation function of the environment or, equivalently, in the spectral density function of the interaction. When the environment is heterogeneous, e.g. consists…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-20 V. A. Mikhailov , N. V. Troshkin

Quantum non-Markovianity of a quantum noisy channel manifests typically as information backflow, characterized by the departure of the intermediate map from complete positivity, though we indicate certain noisy channels that don't exhibit…

We propose an all-optical experiment to quantify non-Markovianity in an open quantum system through quantum coherence of a single quantum bit. We use an amplitude damping channel implemented by an optical setup with an intense laser beam…

Non-Markovianty of open quantum systems dynamics is a physically relevant property which is usually associated with the backflow of (quantum) information. Using this paradigmatic marker, we develop an operational framework to investigate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-16 Thiago Melo D. Azevedo , Cristhiano Duarte , Nadja K. Bernardes

The inference of causal relationships among observed variables is a pivotal, longstanding problem in the scientific community. An intuitive method for quantifying these causal links involves examining the response of one variable to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-03-27 Gabriele Di Antonio , Gianni Valerio Vinci

Temporal correlations are fundamental in quantum physics, yet their computation is often challenging. The regression theorem (or hypothesis) serves as a key tool in this context, offering a seemingly straightforward approach. However, it…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-09 Leonardo Santos , Otfried Gühne , Stefan Nimmrichter

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…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-06 Adam Winick , Joel J. Wallman , Joseph Emerson

In most cases, a small system weakly interacting with a thermal bath will finally reach the thermal state with the temperature of the bath. We show that this intuitive picture is not always true by a spin star model where non-Markov effect…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-20 Zhihai Wang , Yu Guo , D. L. Zhou

When measuring a complex quantum system, we are often interested in only a few degrees of freedom-the plant, while the rest of them are collected as auxiliary modes-the bath. The bath can have finite memory (non-Markovian), and simply…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Huan Yang , Haixing Miao , Yanbei Chen