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ANZIAM Journal

A note on Markovian quantum dynamics

Liang Chen, Huixian Meng, Huaixin Cao, Yongfeng Huang, Ying Yang

Published Jul 20, 2017• 0 citations
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Abstract

Based on the definition of divisibility of Markovian quantum dynamics, we discuss the Markovianity of tensor products, multiplications and some convex combinations of Markovian quantum dynamics. We prove that the tensor product of two Markovian dynamics is also a Markovian dynamics and propose a new witness of non-Markovianity. doi:10.1017/S1446181117000207

DOI
10.21914/anziamj.v58i0.11127

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