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Kirkwood discovered in 1933, and Dirac discovered in 1945, a representation of quantum states that has undergone a renaissance recently. The Kirkwood-Dirac (KD) distribution has been employed to study nonclassicality across quantum physics,…

We show that a Kirkwood-Dirac type quasiprobability distribution is sufficient to reveal any arbitrary quantum resource. This is achieved by demonstrating that it is always possible to identify a set of incompatible measurements that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-09 Kok Chuan Tan , Souradeep Sasmal

Memory or time-non-local effects in open quantum dynamics pose theoretical as well as practical challenges in the understanding and control of noisy quantum systems. While there has been a comprehensive and concerted effort towards…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-25 A. Keefe , N. Agarwal , A. Kamal

Recently, a series of different measures quantifying memory effects in the quantum dynamics of open systems has been proposed. Here, we derive a mathematical representation for the non-Markovianity measure based on the exchange of…

We study the efficacy of the two recently introduced witnesses of non-Markovianity, namely that based on temporal correlations in pseudo-density matrix and temporal steering correlations in detecting information backflow. We show, through…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-01 Shrikant Utagi , Prateek Chawla

We present a comprehensive and up to date review on the concept of quantum non-Markovianity, a central theme in the theory of open quantum systems. We introduce the concept of quantum Markovian process as a generalization of the classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-08-26 Ángel Rivas , Susana F. Huelga , Martin B. Plenio

Temporal quantum states generalize the multipartite density operator formalism to the time domain, enabling a unified treatment of quantum systems with both timelike and spacelike correlations. Despite a growing body of temporal state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-12 Zhian Jia , Kavan Modi , Dagomir Kaszlikowski

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

We address the problem of identifying non-Markovian quantum time evolutions of an open quantum system by only performing measurements of the system's energy. We demonstrate that violations of CP-divisibility are always witnessed by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Marco Pezzutto , Anton Corr , Gabriele De Chiara , Salvatore Lorenzo , Stefano Gherardini

Non-Markovian processes have recently become a central topic in the study of open quantum systems. We realize experimentally non-Markovian decoherence processes of single photons by combining time delay and evolution in a…

The Kirkwood-Dirac distribution, serving as an informationally complete representation of a quantum state, has recently garnered increasing attention. We investigate the Kirkwood-Dirac classicality with respect to mutually unbiased bases.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-11 Yan Liu , Zhihua Guo , Zhihao Ma , Shao-Ming Fei

We consider two recently proposed measures of non-Markovianity applied to a particular quantum process describing the dynamics of a driven qubit in a structured reservoir. The motivation of this study is twofold: on one hand, we study the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Pinja Haikka , James. D. Cresser , Sabrina Maniscalco

Classical computers can simulate models of quantum computation with restricted input states. The identification of such states can sharpen the boundary between quantum and classical computations. Previous works describe simulable states of…

Characterization and quantification of non-Markovian dynamics in open quantum systems are topical issues in the rapidly developing field of quantum computation and quantum communication. A standard approach based on the notion of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-01 Kelvin Onggadinata , Teck Seng Koh

The problem of defining quantum non-Markovianity has proven elusive, with various in-equivalent criteria put forth to address it. The concept of CP-indivisibility and the hierarchy of stronger divisibility criteria going up to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-15 Shrikant Utagi , R. Srikanth , Subhashish Banerjee

We investigate the dynamical aspects of the quantum switch and find a particular form of quantum memory emerging out of the switch action. We first analyze the loss of information in a general quantum evolution subjected to a quantum switch…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-26 Vishal Anand , Ananda G. Maity , Subhadip Mitra , Samyadeb Bhattacharya

The Kirkwood-Dirac quasiprobability distribution, intimately connected with the quantum correlation function of two observables measured at distinct times, is becoming increasingly relevant for fundamental physics and quantum technologies.…

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

An alternative approach to decoherence, named non-dynamical decoherence is developed and used to resolve the quantum measurement problem. According to decoherence, the observed system is open to a macroscopic apparatus(together with a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-08 Yu-Lei Feng , Yi-Xin Chen

We explore the connection between two recently introduced notions of non-Markovian quantum dynamics and the validity of the so-called quantum regression theorem. While non-Markovianity of a quantum dynamics has been defined looking at the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-08-27 Giacomo Guarnieri , Andrea Smirne , Bassano Vacchini