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Trapped atomic ions enable a precise quantification of the flow of information between internal and external degrees of freedom by employing a non-Markovianity measure [H.-P. Breuer et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 210401 (2009)]. We reveal…

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Non-Markovian effects in open quantum system dynamics usually manifest backflow of information from the environment to the system, indicating complete-positive divisibility breaking of the dynamics. We provide a criterion for witnessing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-04 Bivas Mallick , Saheli Mukherjee , Ananda G. Maity , A. S. Majumdar

Mutual information is fundamentally important for measuring statistical dependence between variables and for quantifying information transfer by signaling and communication mechanisms. It can, however, be challenging to evaluate for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-29 Clive G. Bowsher , Margaritis Voliotis

The conditional mutual information (CMI) $\mathcal{I}(A\! : \! C|B)$ quantifies the amount of correlations shared between $A$ and $C$ \emph{given} $B$. It therefore functions as a more general quantifier of bipartite correlations in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-20 William T. B. Malouf , John Goold , Gerardo Adesso , Gabriel T. Landi

The study of quantum dynamics featuring memory effects has always been a topic of interest within the theory of open quantum system, which is concerned about providing useful conceptual and theoretical tools for the description of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-25 Bassano Vacchini

Mutual information is a widely-used information theoretic measure to quantify the amount of association between variables. It is used extensively in many applications such as image registration, diagnosis of failures in electrical machines,…

Computation · Statistics 2021-08-21 Luai Al-Labadi , Forough Fazeli-Asl , Zahra Saberi

Controlling the non-Markovian dynamics of open quantum systems is essential in quantum information technology since it plays a crucial role in preserving quantum memory. Albeit in many realistic scenarios the quantum system can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-15 Zhong-Xiao Man , Yun-Jie Xia , Rosario Lo Franco

Mutual information is the reciprocal information that is common to or shared by two or more parties. Quantum mutual information for bipartite quantum systems is non-negative, and bears the interpretation of total correlation between the two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 Asutosh Kumar

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

In this paper we present a detailed critical study of several recently proposed non-Markovianity measures. We analyse their properties for single qubit and two-qubit systems in both pure-dephasing and dissipative scenarios. More…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-20 C. Addis , B. Bylicka , D. Chruściński , S. Maniscalco

Mutual information (MI) is a useful information-theoretic measure to quantify the statistical dependence between two random variables: $X$ and $Y$. Often, we are interested in understanding how the dependence between $X$ and $Y$ in one set…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Chetan Gohil , Oliver M Cliff , James M. Shine , Ben D. Fulcher , Joseph T. Lizier

We investigate the sample complexity of mutual information and conditional mutual information testing. For conditional mutual information testing, given access to independent samples of a triple of random variables $(A, B, C)$ with unknown…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Jan Seyfried , Sayantan Sen , Marco Tomamichel

A quantum process is called non-Markovian when memory effects take place during its evolution. Quantum non-Markovianity is a phenomenon typically associated with the information back-flow from the environment to the principal system,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-30 Spyros Tserkis , Kade Head-Marsden , Prineha Narang

While the quantum mutual information is a fundamental measure of quantum information, it is only defined for spacelike-separated quantum systems. Such a limitation is not present in the theory of classical information, where the mutual…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-04 James Fullwood , Zhen Wu , Arthur J. Parzygnat , Vlatko Vedral

In the current era of noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices, research in the theory of open system dynamics has a crucial role to play. In particular, understanding and quantifying memory effects in quantum systems is critical to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-01 U. Shrikant , Prabha Mandayam

We show that measurement can recover the quantum coherence of a qubit in a non-Markovian environment. The experimental demonstration in an optical system is provided by comparing the visibilities (and fidelities) of the final states with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 JinShi Xu , ChuanFeng Li , Ming Gong , XuBo Zou , Lei Chen , Geng Chen , JianShun Tang , GuangCan Guo

We discuss the notions of mutual information and conditional information for noncomposite systems, classical and quantum; both the mutual information and the conditional information are associated with the presence of hidden correlations in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-21 Margarita A. Man'ko

We study how non-Markovianity of an open two-level system can be detected when continuously monitoring a part of its bosonic environment. Considering a physical scenario of an atom in a lossy cavity, we demonstrate that the properties of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-12 Kimmo Luoma , Pinja Haikka , Jyrki Piilo

Non-Markovian quantum effects are typically observed in systems interacting with structured reservoirs. Discrete-time quantum walks are prime example of such systems in which, quantum memory arises due to the controlled interaction between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-18 N. Pradeep Kumar , Subhashish Banerjee , C. M. Chandrashekar

In a fully-controllable experiment platform for studying non-Markovian open quantum dynamics, we show that the non-Markovianity could be investigated from the global and local aspects. By mixing random unitary dynamics, we demonstrate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-12 Xin-Yu Chen , Na-Na Zhang , Wan-Ting He , Xiang-Yu Kong , Ming-Jie Tao , Fu-Guo Deng , Qing Ai , Gui-Lu Long