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Completely Positive Divisibility Does Not Mean Markovianity

Quantum Physics 2019-08-06 v2

Abstract

In the classical domain, it is well-known that divisibility does not imply that a stochastic process is Markovian. However, for quantum processes, divisibility is often considered to be synonymous with Markovianity. We show that completely positive (CP) divisible quantum processes can still involve non-Markovian temporal correlations, that we then fully classify using the recently developed process tensor formalism, which generalizes the theory of stochastic processes to the quantum domain.

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@article{arxiv.1901.05223,
  title  = {Completely Positive Divisibility Does Not Mean Markovianity},
  author = {Simon Milz and M. S. Kim and Felix A. Pollock and Kavan Modi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.05223},
  year   = {2019}
}

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4+5 pages, 4 figures, close to published version

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