Efficient measure of information backflow with a quasistochastic process

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Auteurs principaux: Onggadinata, Kelvin, Koh, Teck Seng
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author Onggadinata, Kelvin
Koh, Teck Seng
author_facet Onggadinata, Kelvin
Koh, Teck Seng
contents 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 information backflow detects the flow of information from the environment back to the system. Numerous measures of information backflow have been proposed using different definitions of distinguishability between pairs of quantum states. These measures, however, necessitate optimization over the state space, which can be analytically challenging or numerically demanding. Here we propose an alternative witness and measure of information backflow that is explicitly state independent by utilizing the concept of quasiprobability representation and recent advances in the theory of majorization for quasiprobabilities. We illustrate its use over several paradigmatic examples, demonstrating consistent Markovian conditions with known results and also reported necessary and sufficient conditions for the qutrit system in a random unitary channel. The paper concludes with a discussion of the foundational implications of quantum dynamical evolution.
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spellingShingle Efficient measure of information backflow with a quasistochastic process
Onggadinata, Kelvin
Koh, Teck Seng
Quantum Physics
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 information backflow detects the flow of information from the environment back to the system. Numerous measures of information backflow have been proposed using different definitions of distinguishability between pairs of quantum states. These measures, however, necessitate optimization over the state space, which can be analytically challenging or numerically demanding. Here we propose an alternative witness and measure of information backflow that is explicitly state independent by utilizing the concept of quasiprobability representation and recent advances in the theory of majorization for quasiprobabilities. We illustrate its use over several paradigmatic examples, demonstrating consistent Markovian conditions with known results and also reported necessary and sufficient conditions for the qutrit system in a random unitary channel. The paper concludes with a discussion of the foundational implications of quantum dynamical evolution.
title Efficient measure of information backflow with a quasistochastic process
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.09374