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Semi-Markov processes represent a well known and widely used class of random processes in classical probability theory. Here, we develop an extension of this type of non-Markovian dynamics to the quantum regime. This extension is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-04-30 Heinz-Peter Breuer , Bassano Vacchini

We construct a large class of non-Markovian master equations that describe the dynamics of open quantum systems featuring strong memory effects, which relies on a quantum generalization of the concept of classical semi-Markov processes.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-10-03 Heinz-Peter Breuer , Bassano Vacchini

We introduce a hierarchy of tests satisfied by any probability distribution $P$ that represents the quantum correlations generated in prepare-and-measure (P\&M) quantum chain-shaped networks, assuming only the inner-product information of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-23 Yanning Jia , Fenzhuo Guo , YuKun Wang , Haifeng Dong , Fei Gao

The realization of fault-tolerant quantum computers hinges on effective quantum error correction protocols, whose performance significantly relies on the nature of the underlying noise. In this work, we directly study the structure of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-21 John F Kam , Spiro Gicev , Kavan Modi , Angus Southwell , Muhammad Usman

We study the non-Markovian quantum interference phenomenon of a multi-state atomic system coupled to a bosonic dissipative environment by using the exact master equations derived in this paper. Two examples involving four-level systems with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-23 Yusui Chen , J. Q. You , Ting Yu

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…

Every year, substantial theoretical and experimental progress is made towards the realisation of a genuinely new computational paradigm in the construction of a quantum computer. But progress is fractal; to make headway is to unearth the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-10 Gregory A. L. White

Quantum resources, such as entanglement or quantum communication, offer significant communication advantages in information processing. We develop an operational framework for realizing these communication advantages in resource-constrained…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 Brian Doolittle , Felix Leditzky , Eric Chitambar

The basic features of the dynamics of open quantum systems, such as the dissipation of energy, the decay of coherences, the relaxation to an equilibrium or non-equilibrium stationary state, and the transport of excitations in complex…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-08-09 Heinz-Peter Breuer

The rapid progress in the development of quantum devices is in large part due to the availability of a wide range of characterization techniques allowing to probe, test and adjust them. Nevertheless, these methods often make use of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-07 Pedro Figueroa-Romero , Kavan Modi , Min-Hsiu Hsieh

A Markovian quantum process can be arbitrarily divided into two or more legitimate completely-positive (CP) subprocesses. When at least one non-CP process exists among the divided processes, the dynamics is considered non-Markovian.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-19 Chan Hsu , Yu-Chien Kao , Hong-Bin Chen , Shih-Hsuan Chen , Che-Ming Li

It is widely spread in the literature that non-Markovianity (NM) may be regarded as a resource in quantum mechanics. However, it is still unclear how and when this alleged resource may be exploited. Here, we study the relationship between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-19 Nicolás Mirkin , Pablo Poggi , Diego Wisniacki

We investigate the smallest set of requirements for inducing non-Markovian dynamics in a collisional model of open quantum systems. This is done by introducing correlations in the state of the environment and analyzing the divisibility of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-24 N. K. Bernardes , A. R. R. Carvalho , C. H. Monken , M. F. Santos

When the environment of an open quantum system is non-Markovian, amplitude and phase flow not only from the system into the environment but also back. Here we show that this feature can be exploited to carry out quantum control tasks that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-23 Daniel M. Reich , Nadav Katz , Christiane P. Koch

We investigate the presence of memory in the sequential measurement statistics of an open quantum system, as witnessed by the departure from the quantum regression theorem (QRT), that is, the possibility to predict multitime probabilities…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Paolo Luppi , Claudia Benedetti , Andrea Smirne

Quantum mechanics, in principle, allows for processes with indefinite causal order. However, most of these causal anomalies have not yet been detected experimentally. We show that every such process can be simulated experimentally by means…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-04 Simon Milz , Felix A. Pollock , Thao P. Le , Giulio Chiribella , Kavan Modi

Markovianity of the quantum open system processes is a topic of the considerable current interest. Typically, invertibility is assumed to be non-essential for Markovianity of the open-quantum-system dynamical maps. Nevertheless, in this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-23 Jasmina Jeknić-Dugić , Momir Arsenijević , Miroljub Dugić

Recent days have witnessed significant interests in applying quantum-enhanced techniques for solving a variety of machine learning tasks. Variational methods that use quantum resources of imperfect quantum devices with the help of classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-15 Hiroshi Yano , Yudai Suzuki , Kohei M. Itoh , Rudy Raymond , Naoki Yamamoto

Non-stabilizerness is an essential resource for quantum computational advantage, as stabilizer states admit efficient classical simulation. We develop a semi-device-independent framework for certifying non-stabilizer states in…

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