Verifying Quantum Memory in the Dynamics of Spin Boson Models

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Main Authors: Bäcker, Charlotte, Link, Valentin, Strunz, Walter T.
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author Bäcker, Charlotte
Link, Valentin
Strunz, Walter T.
author_facet Bäcker, Charlotte
Link, Valentin
Strunz, Walter T.
contents We investigate the nature of memory effects in the non-Markovian dynamics of spin boson models. Local quantum memory criteria can be used to indicate that the reduced dynamics of an open system necessarily requires a quantum memory in its environment. We apply two such criteria, derived from different definitions put forward in the literature, to spin boson and two-spin boson models. For the computation of dynamical maps and process tensors, we employ a numerically exact method for non-Markovian open system dynamics based on matrix product operator influence functionals, that can be applied across broad parameter regimes. We find that, with access to single-intervention process tensors, one can generally predict quantum memory in the dynamics at low temperatures. Given instead only the dynamical map, we are still able to detect quantum memory in the case of resonant environments at short evolution times. Moreover, we confirm quantum memory in the stationary dynamical regime using process tensors with the correlated steady state of system and environment as initial condition.
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spellingShingle Verifying Quantum Memory in the Dynamics of Spin Boson Models
Bäcker, Charlotte
Link, Valentin
Strunz, Walter T.
Quantum Physics
We investigate the nature of memory effects in the non-Markovian dynamics of spin boson models. Local quantum memory criteria can be used to indicate that the reduced dynamics of an open system necessarily requires a quantum memory in its environment. We apply two such criteria, derived from different definitions put forward in the literature, to spin boson and two-spin boson models. For the computation of dynamical maps and process tensors, we employ a numerically exact method for non-Markovian open system dynamics based on matrix product operator influence functionals, that can be applied across broad parameter regimes. We find that, with access to single-intervention process tensors, one can generally predict quantum memory in the dynamics at low temperatures. Given instead only the dynamical map, we are still able to detect quantum memory in the case of resonant environments at short evolution times. Moreover, we confirm quantum memory in the stationary dynamical regime using process tensors with the correlated steady state of system and environment as initial condition.
title Verifying Quantum Memory in the Dynamics of Spin Boson Models
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.13067