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A correlation measure detecting almost all non-Markovian evolutions

Quantum Physics 2019-11-12 v2

Abstract

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 non-Markovian dynamics. A correlation measure is introduced, and it is proven that, in an enlarged setting with two ancillary systems, this measure detects almost all non-Markovian dynamics, except possibly a zero-measure set of dynamics that is non-bijective in finite time-intervals. Our proof is constructive and provides different initial states detecting the non-Markovian evolutions. These states are all separable and some are arbitrarily close to a product state.

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@article{arxiv.1805.00920,
  title  = {A correlation measure detecting almost all non-Markovian evolutions},
  author = {Dario De Santis and Markus Johansson and Bogna Bylicka and Nadja K. Bernardes and Antonio Acín},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.00920},
  year   = {2019}
}

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5+7 pages, 1 figure

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