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Non-Markovianity of a Central Spin Interacting with a Lipkin–Meshkov–Glick Bath via a Conditional Past–Future Correlation

Li-Ping Han, Jian Zou, Hai Li, Bin Shao

Published Aug 15, 2020• 8 citations

Abstract

Based on conditional past-future (CPF) correlations, we study the non-Markovianity of a central spin coupled to an isotropic Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick (LMG) bath. Although the dynamics of a system is always non-Markovian, it is found that some measurement time intervals considering a specific process, with respect to a particular set of CPF measurement operators, can be zero, which means that in this case the non-Markovianity of the system could not be detected. Furthermore, the initial system-bath correlations only slightly influence the non-Markovianity of the system in our model. Significantly, it is also found that the dynamics of the system for LMG baths, initially in the ground states corresponding to the symmetric phase and symmetry broken phase, exhibit different properties, and the maximal value of the CPF at the critical point is the smallest, independent of the measurement operator, which means that the criticality can manifest itself by the CPF. Moreover, the effect of bath temperature on the quantum criticality of the CPF depends on the measurement operator.

DOI: 10.3390/e22080895

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