It is generally assumed that environmental noise arising from thermal fluctuations is detrimental to preserving coherence and entanglement in a quantum system. In the simplest sense, dephasing and decoherence are tied to energy fluctuations driven by coupling between the system and the normal modes of the bath. Here, we explore the role of noise correlation in an open-loop model quantum communication system whereby the "sender" and the "receiver" are subject to local environments with various degrees of correlation or anticorrelation. We introduce correlation within the spectral density by solving multidimensional stochastic differential equations and introduce these into the Redfield equations of motion for the system density matrix. We find that correlation can enhance both the fidelity and purity of a maximally entangled (Bell) state. Moreover, we show that, by comparing the evolution of different initial Bell states, one can effectively probe the correlation between two local environments. These observations may be useful in the design of high-fidelity quantum gates and communication protocols.
It is generally assumed that environmental noise arising from thermal fluctuations is detrimental to preserving coherence and entanglement in a quantum system. In the simplest sense, dephasing and decoherence are tied to energy fluctuations driven by coupling between the system and the normal modes of the bath. Here, we explore the role of noise correlation in an open-loop model quantum communication system whereby the "sender" and the "receiver" are subject to local environments with various degrees of correlation or anticorrelation. We introduce correlation within the spectral density by solving multidimensional stochastic differential equations and introduce these into the Redfield equations of motion for the system density matrix. We find that correlation can enhance both the fidelity and purity of a maximally entangled (Bell) state. Moreover, we show that, by comparing the evolution of different initial Bell states, one can effectively probe the correlation between two local environments. These observations may be useful in the design of high-fidelity quantum gates and communication protocols.
It is generally assumed that environmental noise arising from thermal fluctuations are detrimental to preserving coherence and entanglement in a quantum system. In the simplest sense, dephasing and decoherence are tied to energy fluctuations driven by coupling between the system and the normal modes of the bath. Here, we explore the role of noise correlation in an open-loop model quantum communication system whereby the ‘sender’ and the ‘receiver’ are subject to local environments with various degrees of correlation or anti-correlation. We introduce correlation within the spectral density by solving multidimensional stochastic differential equations and introduce these into the Redfield equations of motion for the system density matrix. We find that correlation can enhance both the fidelity and purity of a maximally entangled (Bell) state. Moreover, by comparing the evolution of different initial Bell states, we show that one can effectively probe the correlation between two local environments. These observations may be useful in the design of high-fidelity quantum gates and communication protocols.
We address the dynamics of quantum coherence, quantum correlations, quantum steering and Bell nonlocality in a model of two interacting qubits, initially prepared in a thermal state. The two qubit are coupled via a dipolar interaction and exposed to Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya (DM) interaction and classical fluctuating fields influenced by Ornstein–Uhlenbeck (OU)-Static (ST) mixed noise in common environments. We analyse the dynamics effects on quantum resources, as Bell nonlocality, quantum steering, quantum entanglement, quantum discord and quantum coherence. We find that the dynamics of quantum correlations are not only strongly affected by the type of system-environment coupling but also by the kind of the considered noise. The entanglement diminution is over time, accompanied by damped oscillations, indicative of coherent dynamics. The DM interaction induces a decrease in quantum coherence and correlations with increasing values, leading to complete maximizing at critical thresholds. The effects of thermal effects destroy the quantum correlation. The variations in state noise disorder parameters reveal enhanced preservation and reduced oscillations as the noise disorder parameter decreases, emphasizing its crucial role in shaping quantum correlations.
We analytically investigate the fidelity dynamics of a Jaynes--Cummings qubit coupled to a single-mode cavity in the presence of stochastic fluctuations of the qubit--cavity coupling. Such fluctuations naturally arise in cavity- and circuit-QED platforms due to fabrication imperfections, control-field noise, mechanical vibrations, and environmental disturbances. Since the qubit--cavity coupling governs the rate of coherent energy and information exchange, understanding the effects of its fluctuations is essential for assessing the performance of quantum communication, quantum sensing, and quantum information-processing protocols. We consider both Gaussian white noise and Ornstein--Uhlenbeck noise with finite correlation time as models for the coupling fluctuations. Exploiting the closed dynamics within each excitation manifold, we derive exact analytical expressions for the noise-averaged density matrix and the fidelity relative to the ideal noiseless evolution. We show that the fidelity is determined by a single decoherence factor governed by the integrated noise correlation function, establishing a direct connection between microscopic coupling fluctuations and macroscopic coherence loss. In the white-noise limit, the fidelity decays exponentially, whereas finite noise correlation times produce nonexponential decay and slower coherence loss. We further show that the crossover between Markovian-like and non-Markovian regimes is controlled by the ratio of the noise correlation rate to the coherent coupling strength, and that decoherence increases with photon number because of the enhanced effective qubit--cavity coupling. These results provide a unified analytical framework for quantifying decoherence induced by stochastic coupling fluctuations and for evaluating the robustness of cavity-QED protocols under correlated noise.
We investigate the reduced dynamics of a qubit subject to correlated longitudinal and transverse noise arising from its coupling to a shared bosonic bath. The environmental fluctuations are characterized by a positive-semidefinite matrix-valued spectral density, whose complex off-diagonal elements encode correlations between dephasing and relaxation channels in the frequency domain. Within the second-order time-convolutionless framework, we derive closed time-local equations for the Bloch-vector components of the reduced density matrix. The numerical implementation is validated against the exact pure-dephasing solution and the established behavior of the transverse-coupling spin-boson model. When both noise channels are present, the cross-spectral terms couple the otherwise distinct dephasing and relaxation sectors, producing dynamics that cannot be reproduced by adding independent noise contributions. In particular, the correlations generate non-monotonic population relaxation and a transient revival of coherence following its initial decay. The strength, bandwidth, delay, and phase of the cross spectrum provide control parameters for the magnitude and temporal structure of these effects. Our results demonstrate that correlated multi-axis noise can redistribute coherence loss and energy relaxation in time, thereby providing finite temporal windows of enhanced coherence or suppressed relaxation within the weak-coupling regime.
The challenge of making nano-scale quantum systems experimentally accessible is being overcome for an increasing diversity of systems by improved fabrication techniques and experimental control. Despite rapid progress, one of the main hindrances in all experiments is the difficulty of isolating the quantum system from the surrounding environment and its fluctuations. This experimental “noise” perturbs the quantum system, a process that is generally referred to as decoherence: the system slowly loses its distinguishing quantum features. In this thesis the effects of spatial correlations in the noise environment with a finite correlation length are investigated. The consequences for the experimental design of controlled quantum systems as well as the dynamics of solid state systems are presented. We utilize the Bloch-Redfield formalism, a Markovian master equation approach, which gives a close connection to the underpinning system-environment model. We show how to use this formalism to model any spatial correlation function of the noise environment. Using microscopic environmental models, several correlation functions are derived and their properties connected to the environmental parameters. Several phenomenological correlation functions are also studied and a mapping to the Lindblad master equation is presented, which provides a test of positivity for phenomenological models. For quantum transport through spin chains and networks, noise is generally detrimental. Spatial correlations however reduce the effect of dephasing noise and can reinstate the transport dynamics. The critical correlation length proves to be closely connected to the maximal packet width of one excitation in the transfer process. For dissipation noise, relaxation-free states emerge with spatial correlations. The decay of an excitation is therefore fundamentally modified into a fast decay towards an intermediate relaxation-reduced state and a subsequent decay to the ground state on a much longer time scale. In quantum metrology noise correlations have been observed in experiments with trapped ions, in which they limit the use of such experiments for metrology. Quantum advantage, i.e. a better precision scaling than the standard quantum limit has been proven impossible in the presence of uncorrelated Markovian noise only. We show that for certain optimized states the best possible quantum advantage, Heisenberg scaling, can be achieved in the presence of noise with a finite spatial decay of correlations. We furthermore identify how dephasing effects change and a topology dependence arises in strength with increasing correlation length for entangled states in a general way. Biological photosynthetic complexes have recently been found to potentially include quantum coherent dynamics, particularly in the process of transmitting an exciton from the point of creation to the reaction centre. We show how the formalism of spatially correlated decoherence adapts to this significantly different energy regime. Typical effects of decoherence in this field are presented and we show how the light-harvesting efficiency is influenced by spatial correlations in the noise. This thesis highlights the fundamental relevance of noise correlations to several fields of quantum physics and the importance of the efficient and comprehensive modelling techniques presented.
We investigate qubit entanglement dynamics in a two-qubit cavity system with stochastically fluctuating coupling strength, comparing white noise (Markovian) and Ornstein-Uhlenbeck noise (non-Markovian) processes. We analytically solve the system dynamics for both Fock and coherent cavity states and systematically characterize how initial qubit configurations affect entanglement generation and preservation. Our results reveal distinct dynamical regimes: in the Fock-state cavity, initial states in the single-excitation subspace generate robust qubit entanglement in decoherence-free subspaces, while initially entangled states in the double-excitation subspace exhibit inevitable decay without protective symmetries. For coherent cavities, we identify a critical photon-number threshold in the intermediate coherent-state amplitude regime where dynamics transition from low-frequency to high-frequency entanglement oscillations, while universal entanglement loss occurs at large amplitudes. Remarkable resilience against entanglement sudden death emerges under strong non-Markovian noise with long correlation times, where repeated revivals occur. These findings establish cavity photon statistics and environmental memory time as key control parameters for engineering qubit entanglement dynamics in qubit-cavity systems, revealing how system-environment correlations govern quantum information preservation.