scholarly journals Witnessing quantum memory in non-Markovian processes

Quantum ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 440
Author(s):  
Christina Giarmatzi ◽  
Fabio Costa
Keyword(s):  
Simple Model ◽  
Open Quantum Systems ◽  
Quantum Systems ◽  
Markovian Process ◽  
Quantum Memory ◽  
Matrix Formalism ◽  
Markovian Processes ◽  
Entanglement Witnesses ◽  
Separability Criteria ◽  
Experimental Tool

We present a method to detect quantum memory in a non-Markovian process. We call a process Markovian when the environment does not provide a memory that retains correlations across different system-environment interactions. We define two types of non-Markovian processes, depending on the required memory being classical or quantum. We formalise this distinction using the process matrix formalism, through which a process is represented as a multipartite state. Within this formalism, a test for entanglement in a state can be mapped to a test for quantum memory in the corresponding process. This allows us to apply separability criteria and entanglement witnesses to the detection of quantum memory. We demonstrate the method in a simple model where both system and environment are single interacting qubits and map the parameters that lead to quantum memory. As with entanglement witnesses, our method of witnessing quantum memory provides a versatile experimental tool for open quantum systems.

scholarly journals Quantum collisional thermostats

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorge Tabanera ◽  
Inés Luque ◽  
Samuel L. Jacob ◽  
Massimiliano Esposito ◽  
Felipe Barra ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Open Quantum Systems ◽  
Formal Solution ◽  
Scattering Problem ◽  
Approximate Solutions ◽  
Quantum Systems ◽  
Matrix Formalism ◽  
External Agent ◽  
Far From Equilibrium ◽  
Transfer Matrix Formalism ◽  
Scattering Map

Abstract Collisional reservoirs are becoming a major tool for modelling open quantum systems. In their simplest implementation, an external agent switches on, for a given time, the interaction between the system and a specimen from the reservoir. Generically, in this operation the external agent performs work onto the system, preventing thermalization when the reservoir is at equilibrium. One can recover thermalization by considering an autonomous global setup where the reservoir particles colliding with the system possess a kinetic degree of freedom. The drawback is that the corresponding scattering problem is rather involved. Here, we present a formal solution of the problem in one dimension and for flat interaction potentials. The solution is based on the transfer matrix formalism and allows one to explore the symmetries of the resulting scattering map. One of these symmetries is micro-reversibility, which is a condition for thermalization. We then introduce two approximations of the scattering map that preserve these symmetries and, consequently, thermalize the system. These relatively simple approximate solutions constitute models of quantum thermostats and are useful tools to study quantum systems in contact with thermal baths. We illustrate their accuracy in a specific example, showing that both are good approximations of the exact scattering problem even in situations far from equilibrium. Moreover, one of the models consists of the removal of certain coherences plus a very specific randomization of the interaction time. These two features allow one to identify as heat the energy transfer due to switching on and off the interaction. Our results prompt the fundamental question of how to distinguish between heat and work from the statistical properties of the exchange of energy between a system and its surroundings.

scholarly journals Application of the theory of open quantum systems in nuclear physics

2019 ◽  
Vol 49 ◽  
pp. 1960008
Author(s):  
V. V. Sargsyan ◽  
Z. Kanokov ◽  
G. G. Adamian ◽  
N. V. Antonenko
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Physics ◽  
Open Quantum Systems ◽  
Quantum Systems ◽  
Reduced Density Matrix ◽  
Quantum Model ◽  
Matrix Formalism ◽  
Capture Process ◽  
Projectile Nucleus ◽  
Density Matrix Formalism ◽  
Reduced Density

Projectile-nucleus capture by a target nucleus at bombarding energies in the vicinity of the Coulomb barrier is treated with the reduced-density-matrix formalism. The effects of dissipation and fluctuations on the capture process are taken self-consistently into account within the quantum model suggested. The excitation functions for the capture in the reactions [Formula: see text]O, [Formula: see text]F, [Formula: see text]Mg, [Formula: see text]Si, [Formula: see text]S, [Formula: see text]Ca, [Formula: see text]Ti, [Formula: see text]Cr [Formula: see text] [Formula: see text]Pb are calculated and compared with the experimental data.

Dynamics of coherence under Markovian and non-Markovian environments

2017 ◽  
Vol 31 (35) ◽  
pp. 1750329 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhong-Xiao Wang ◽  
Teng Ma ◽  
Shu-Hao Wang ◽  
Tie-Jun Wang ◽  
Chuan Wang
Keyword(s):  
Density Matrix ◽  
Upper Bound ◽  
Quantum Coherence ◽  
Quantum Discord ◽  
Open Quantum Systems ◽  
Quantum Systems ◽  
Initial State ◽  
Single Qubit ◽  
Markovian Processes ◽  
Markovian Dynamics

The behavior of quantum coherence is studied under Markovian and non-Markovian dynamics for open quantum systems. For single qubit systems, we show that the coherence depending on the off-diagonal elements of the density matrix is the upper bound of the coherence depending on the relative entropy under both Markovian and non-Markovian processes. For two-qubit systems, in both Markovian and non-Markovian processes, quantum discord and coherence show less sensitivity to the initial state than quantum entanglement. We also find that the quantum discord has similar behaviors with coherence under both Markovian and non-Markovian dynamics.

Relaxation of interacting open quantum systems

2018 ◽  
Vol 189 (05) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vladislav Yu. Shishkov ◽  
Evgenii S. Andrianov ◽  
Aleksandr A. Pukhov ◽  
Aleksei P. Vinogradov ◽  
A.A. Lisyansky
Keyword(s):  
Open Quantum Systems ◽  
Quantum Systems ◽  
Open Quantum

scholarly journals Hamiltonian assignment for open quantum systems

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eugene F. Dumitrescu ◽  
Pavel Lougovski
Keyword(s):  
Open Quantum Systems ◽  
Quantum Systems ◽  
Open Quantum

scholarly journals Perturbation Analysis of Quantum Reset Models

2021 ◽  
Vol 183 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Géraldine Haack ◽  
Alain Joye
Keyword(s):  
Steady State ◽  
Perturbation Analysis ◽  
Open Quantum Systems ◽  
Quantum Systems ◽  
Markov Semigroup ◽  
Coupling Constant ◽  
Coupling Term ◽  
Open Quantum ◽  
Effective Dynamics ◽  
A Chain

AbstractThis paper is devoted to the analysis of Lindblad operators of Quantum Reset Models, describing the effective dynamics of tri-partite quantum systems subject to stochastic resets. We consider a chain of three independent subsystems, coupled by a Hamiltonian term. The two subsystems at each end of the chain are driven, independently from each other, by a reset Lindbladian, while the center system is driven by a Hamiltonian. Under generic assumptions on the coupling term, we prove the existence of a unique steady state for the perturbed reset Lindbladian, analytic in the coupling constant. We further analyze the large times dynamics of the corresponding CPTP Markov semigroup that describes the approach to the steady state. We illustrate these results with concrete examples corresponding to realistic open quantum systems.

scholarly journals Matrix Product State Simulations of Non-Equilibrium Steady States and Transient Heat Flows in the Two-Bath Spin-Boson Model at Finite Temperatures

Entropy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 77
Author(s):  
Angus J. Dunnett ◽  
Alex W. Chin
Keyword(s):  
Finite Temperature ◽  
Open Quantum Systems ◽  
Quantum Systems ◽  
Steady States ◽  
Matrix Product ◽  
Open Quantum ◽  
Matrix Product State ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Boson Model ◽  
Non Equilibrium

Simulating the non-perturbative and non-Markovian dynamics of open quantum systems is a very challenging many body problem, due to the need to evolve both the system and its environments on an equal footing. Tensor network and matrix product states (MPS) have emerged as powerful tools for open system models, but the numerical resources required to treat finite-temperature environments grow extremely rapidly and limit their applications. In this study we use time-dependent variational evolution of MPS to explore the striking theory of Tamascelli et al. (Phys. Rev. Lett. 2019, 123, 090402.) that shows how finite-temperature open dynamics can be obtained from zero temperature, i.e., pure wave function, simulations. Using this approach, we produce a benchmark dataset for the dynamics of the Ohmic spin-boson model across a wide range of coupling strengths and temperatures, and also present a detailed analysis of the numerical costs of simulating non-equilibrium steady states, such as those emerging from the non-perturbative coupling of a qubit to baths at different temperatures. Despite ever-growing resource requirements, we find that converged non-perturbative results can be obtained, and we discuss a number of recent ideas and numerical techniques that should allow wide application of MPS to complex open quantum systems.

scholarly journals Memory Effects in Quantum Dynamics Modelled by Quantum Renewal Processes

Entropy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (7) ◽  
pp. 905
Author(s):  
Nina Megier ◽  
Manuel Ponzi ◽  
Andrea Smirne ◽  
Bassano Vacchini
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Dynamics ◽  
Open Quantum System ◽  
Open Quantum Systems ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Quantum Systems ◽  
Renewal Processes ◽  
Continuous Part ◽  
Trace Distance ◽  
Open Quantum ◽  
And Control

Simple, controllable models play an important role in learning how to manipulate and control quantum resources. We focus here on quantum non-Markovianity and model the evolution of open quantum systems by quantum renewal processes. This class of quantum dynamics provides us with a phenomenological approach to characterise dynamics with a variety of non-Markovian behaviours, here described in terms of the trace distance between two reduced states. By adopting a trajectory picture for the open quantum system evolution, we analyse how non-Markovianity is influenced by the constituents defining the quantum renewal process, namely the time-continuous part of the dynamics, the type of jumps and the waiting time distributions. We focus not only on the mere value of the non-Markovianity measure, but also on how different features of the trace distance evolution are altered, including times and number of revivals.

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