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Physical Review Letters

Constructive Method for Detecting the Information Backflow of Non-Markovian Dynamics

Bogna Bylicka, Markus Johansson, Antonio Acín

Published Mar 24, 2017• 88 citations
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Abstract

We investigate the relation between two approaches to the characterization of quantum Markovianity, divisibility and lack of information backflow. We show that a bijective dynamical map is completely positive divisible if and only if a monotonic nonincrease of distinguishability is observed for two equiprobable states of the evolving system and an ancilla. Moreover, our proof is constructive: given any such map that is not completely positive divisible, we give an explicit construction of two states that, when taken with the same a priori probability, exhibit information backflow. Finally, while an ancilla is necessary for the equivalence to hold in general, we show that it is always possible to witness the non-Markovianity of bijective maps without using any entanglement between the system and ancilla.

DOI
10.1103/physrevlett.118.120501

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