Non-locality and Memory Effects

Abdel‐Baset A. Mohamed, Atta Ur Rahman, Hichem Eleuch

The engineering properties of trapped ions and their capacity to engender numerous quantum information resources determine many aspects of quantum information processing. We devise a setup of coherent and even coherent fields acting on two trapped ions to generate quantum memory, non-locality, and entanglement. Various effects, such as intrinsic decoherence, Lamb–Dicke regime, and dipole–dipole interaction are investigated. The inter-coupling of trapped ions, as well as the generation and dynamics of correlations between them, are analyzed. Using quantum memory assisted entropic uncertainty, trace-norm measurement induced non-locality, and concurrence, we find that the coherent and even coherent fields successfully generate non-local correlations in trapped-ions, with the latter being more resourceful for the dynamics and preservation of the non-local correlations. Furthermore, we observe that the entropic uncertainty and the trace norm induced non-locality present symmetrical dynamics. The dipole–dipole interaction improves correlation’s generation, robustness, and entropic uncertainty suppression.

El Allati, A., Bukbech, S., El Anouz, K. +1 more

The memory fractional effects of a one-axis twisting model on the dynamics of two-qubit entanglement and non-locality are discussed. It consists of solving the time-dependent fractional Schrödinger equation by extending any integration into non-integer orders using Riemann–Liouville integration. The obtained results present the possibility of controlling the fractional order of memory, varying the parameters to significantly generate concurrency and Bell’s non-locality. Under the current investigation setup, it is noticeable that the behaviors of the proposed quantifiers are similar to each other, but with a small difference in the amplitude of non-locality with respect to entanglement. Importantly, we show that the most intriguing aspect of this paper is to detect that pair-qubit entanglement and non-locality can be preserved for an indefinite time, which still holds significance in quantum information processing.

Charlotte Bäcker, Konstantin Beyer, Walter T. Strunz

Non-Markovian processes may arise in physics due to memory effects of environmental degrees of freedom. For quantum non-Markovianity, it is an ongoing debate to clarify whether such memory effects have a verifiable quantum origin, or whether they might equally be modeled by a classical memory. In this contribution, we propose a criterion to test locally for a truly quantum memory. The approach is agnostic with respect to the environment, as it solely depends on the local dynamics of the system of interest. Experimental realizations are particularly easy, as only single-time measurements on the system itself have to be performed. We study memory in a variety of physically motivated examples, both for a time-discrete case, and for time-continuous dynamics. For the latter, we are able to provide an interesting class of non-Markovian master equations with classical memory that allows for a physically measurable quantum trajectory representation.