On the eternal non-Markovianity of non-unital quantum channels

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Main Authors: Utagi, Shrikant, Banerjee, Subhashish, Srikanth, R.
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author Utagi, Shrikant
Banerjee, Subhashish
Srikanth, R.
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Banerjee, Subhashish
Srikanth, R.
contents The eternally non-Markovian Pauli channel is an example of a unital channel characterized by a negative decay rate for all time $t>0$. Here we consider the problem of constructing an analogous non-unital channel, and show in particular that a $d$-dimensional generalized amplitude damping (GAD) channel cannot be eternally non-Markovian when the non-Markovianity originates solely from the non-unital part of the channel. We study specific ramifications of this result for qubit GAD. Specifically, we construct a quasi-eternally non-Markovian qubit GAD channel, characterized by a time $t^\ast > 0$, such that the channel is non-Markovian only and for all time $t > t^\ast$. We further point out that our negative result for the qudit GAD channel, namely the impossibility of the eternal non-Markovian property, does not hold for a general qubit or higher-dimensional non-unital channel.
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spellingShingle On the eternal non-Markovianity of non-unital quantum channels
Utagi, Shrikant
Banerjee, Subhashish
Srikanth, R.
Quantum Physics
Mathematical Physics
The eternally non-Markovian Pauli channel is an example of a unital channel characterized by a negative decay rate for all time $t>0$. Here we consider the problem of constructing an analogous non-unital channel, and show in particular that a $d$-dimensional generalized amplitude damping (GAD) channel cannot be eternally non-Markovian when the non-Markovianity originates solely from the non-unital part of the channel. We study specific ramifications of this result for qubit GAD. Specifically, we construct a quasi-eternally non-Markovian qubit GAD channel, characterized by a time $t^\ast > 0$, such that the channel is non-Markovian only and for all time $t > t^\ast$. We further point out that our negative result for the qudit GAD channel, namely the impossibility of the eternal non-Markovian property, does not hold for a general qubit or higher-dimensional non-unital channel.
title On the eternal non-Markovianity of non-unital quantum channels
topic Quantum Physics
Mathematical Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.10625