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arXiv:1511.07202 · Physical Review A

Complete positivity, finite-temperature effects, and additivity of noise for time-local qubit dynamics

Juho Lankinen, Henri Lyyra, Boris Sokolov, Jose Teittinen, Babak Ziaei, Sabrina Maniscalco

Published May 3, 2016• 29 citations
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Abstract

We present a general model of qubit dynamics which entails pure dephasing and dissipative time-local master equations. This allows us to describe the combined effect of thermalization and dephasing beyond the usual Markovian approximation. We investigate the complete positivity conditions and introduce a heuristic model that is always physical and provides the correct Markovian limit. We study the effects of temperature on the non-Markovian behavior of the system and show that the noise additivity property discussed by Yu and Eberly [Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 140403 (2006)] holds beyond the Markovian limit.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.93.052103

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