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In this work we introduce and characterize a broad class of quantum operations with a unique fixed point, termed quantum ergodic channels. We derive Lindblad-type master equations for these channels in arbitrary finite dimensions and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-18 Ritam Basu , Anish Chakraborty , Himanshu Badhani , Mir Alimuddin , Samyadeb Bhattacharya

The quantum speed limit sets a bound on the minimum time required for a quantum system to evolve between two states. For open quantum systems this quantity depends on the dynamical map describing the time evolution in presence of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-11 Jose Teittinen , Henri Lyyra , Sabrina Maniscalco

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

Characterizing the memory properties of the environment has become critical for the high-fidelity control of qubits and other advanced quantum systems. However, current non-Markovian tomography techniques are either limited to discrete…

Quantum thermodynamics studies how quantum systems and operations may be exploited as sources of work to perform useful thermodynamic tasks. In real-world conditions, the evolution of open quantum systems typically displays memory effects,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-30 Guilherme Zambon , Gerardo Adesso

We provide a characterization of memory effects in non-Markovian system-bath interactions from a quantum information perspective. More specifically, we establish sufficient conditions for which generalized measures of multipartite quantum,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-02 Fagner M. Paula , Paola C. Obando , Marcelo S. Sarandy

Recent developments in practical quantum engineering and control techniques have allowed significant developments for experimental studies of open quantum systems and decoherence engineering. Indeed, it has become possible to test…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-09 C. -F. Li , G. -C. Guo , J. Piilo

Many inference scenarios rely on extracting relevant information from known data in order to make future predictions. When the underlying stochastic process satisfies certain assumptions, there is a direct mapping between its exact…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-10 Leonardo Banchi

It is common, when dealing with quantum processes involving a subsystem of a much larger composite closed system, to treat them as effectively memory-less (Markovian). While open systems theory tells us that non-Markovian processes should…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-02 Pedro Figueroa-Romero , Kavan Modi , Felix A. Pollock

Using the paradigm of information backflow to characterize a non-Markovian evolution, we introduce so-called precursors of non-Markovianity, i.e. necessary properties that the system and environment state must exhibit at earlier times in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-31 Steve Campbell , Maria Popovic , Dario Tamascelli , Bassano Vacchini

The definition of memory in operational approaches to quantum non-Markovianity depends on the statistical properties of different sets of outcomes related to successive measurement processes performed over the system of interest. Using…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-26 Mariano Bonifacio , Adrián A. Budini

Identifying non-Markovianity with non-divisibility, we propose a measure for non-Markovinity of quantum process. Three examples are presented to illustrate the non-Markovianity, measure for non-Markovianity is calculated and discussed.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 S. C. Hou , X. X. Yi , S. X. Yu , C. H. Oh

We investigate the back-flow of information in a system with a second-order structural phase transition, namely a quasi one-dimensional Coulomb crystal. Using standard Ramsey interferometry which couples a target ion (the system) to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Massimo Borrelli , Pinja Haikka , Gabriele De Chiara , Sabrina Maniscalco

Recent advances in our understanding of foundations of quantum mechanics have shown that information can be made objective through quantum states. Such objectification processes, predicted e.g. in a variety of quantum open systems, must…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-09 Rafał Ćwiek , Jarosław K. Korbicz

In stochastic modeling, the excess entropy -- the mutual information shared between a process's past and future -- represents the fundamental lower bound of the memory needed to simulate its dynamics. However, this bound cannot be saturated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-27 Kelvin Onggadinata , Andrew Tanggara , Mile Gu , Dagomir Kaszlikowski

Investigations of quantum and mesoscopic thermodynamics force one to answer two fundamental questions associated with the foundations of statistical mechanics: (i) how does macroscopic irreversibility emerge from microscopic reversibility?…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-20 Wei-Min Zhang

Among the predictive hidden Markov models that describe a given stochastic process, the {\epsilon}-machine is strongly minimal in that it minimizes every R\'enyi-based memory measure. Quantum models can be smaller still. In contrast with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 Samuel Loomis , James P. Crutchfield

Quantum reservoir computing (QRC) harnesses driven quantum dynamics for time-series processing, yet the mechanisms behind the differing performance levels across its many implementations remain unclear. We show that apparently unrelated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Saud Čindrak , Lara Giebeler , Niclas Götting , Christopher Gies , Kathy Lüdge

We propose a simple criterion for non-Markovianity: a quantum master equation is non-Markovian if and only if its \textit{trajectory set} contains a \textit{self-intersecting trajectory} (defined in the main text). Since self-intersection…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-25 Le Hu , Archana Kamal

We introduce a method of characterization of non-Markovianity using coherence of a system interacting with the environment. We show that under the allowed incoherent operations, monotonicity of a valid coherence measure is affected due to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-28 Titas Chanda , Samyadeb Bhattacharya