Abstract We explore how thermal fluctuations and noisy decoherence affect non-classical correlations and entropic uncertainty relations in a perylene-bisimide (PBI) dimer system represented by two coupled molecular two-level systems. The composite Hamiltonian includes dipole-dipole interaction between the monomers, and the system’s initial state is considered the thermal Gibbs state, which exhibits entanglement at a finite temperature. Environmental noise is introduced through amplitude damping, phase damping, and phase-flip channels, allowing us to trace the evolution of logarithmic negativity, trace distance discord, and the quantum-memory-assisted entropic uncertainty relation (QMA-EUR). The investigation demonstrates that entanglement decays rapidly with increasing temperature and decoherence strength, whereas trace discord remains resilient over a more comprehensive parameter range. This robustness suggests that PBI dimers can retain useful quantum resources under realistic environmental conditions, highlighting their potential as building blocks for molecular quantum information devices.
Abstract We explore how thermal fluctuations and noisy decoherence affect non-classical correlations and entropic uncertainty relations in a perylene-bisimide (PBI) dimer system represented by two coupled molecular two-level systems. The composite Hamiltonian includes dipole-dipole interaction between the monomers, and the system’s initial state is considered the thermal Gibbs state, which exhibits entanglement at a finite temperature. Environmental noise is introduced through amplitude damping, phase damping, and phase-flip channels, allowing us to trace the evolution of logarithmic negativity, trace distance discord, and the quantum-memory-assisted entropic uncertainty relation (QMA-EUR). The investigation demonstrates that entanglement decays rapidly with increasing temperature and decoherence strength, whereas trace discord remains resilient over a more comprehensive parameter range. This robustness suggests that PBI dimers can retain useful quantum resources under realistic environmental conditions, highlighting their potential as building blocks for molecular quantum information devices.
We investigate the dynamics of key quantum correlations - Negativity (NG), Quantum Discord (QD), and Quantum-Memory-Assisted Entropic Uncertainty (QM-EUR) - in a bipartite two-qubit system under the influence of external pulses and various decoherence channels, including amplitude damping (gamma_amp), pure dephasing (gamma_deph), and pulse-induced dephasing (G), while different regimes of inter-qubit coupling (Jzz, Jxx), qubit energy splitting (epsilon), and pulse parameters (A_pulse, beta_pulse) are explored. Our results show that inter-qubit coupling and energy splitting epsilon significantly influence the dynamics, producing pronounced oscillations in the weak-coupling regime and protecting pre-existing entanglement in the strong-coupling regime. NG is the most sensitive, QD persists longer revealing nonclassical correlations independent of entanglement, and QM-EUR reflects residual quantum memory and entropic uncertainty, showing that quantum signatures survive even when NG and QD are weak. Pulse amplitude and width effectively control the generation and dissipation of correlations, while the intensity of pulse-induced dephasing modulates the balance between sustained oscillations and rapid decoherence. The initial state also plays a crucial role: a partially entangled initial state is more resilient to perturbations, preserving correlations over time, whereas a separable state exhibits cycles of entanglement creation and destruction. Thus, by adjusting system parameters, it is possible to control the stability and lifetime of correlations and coherence, providing a framework to optimize quantum systems for applications requiring both strong entanglement and long-lasting coherence, such as quantum computing and secure communication.
We study the dissipative dynamics of a hybrid qubit–qutrit system initially prepared in the interacting thermal (Gibbs) state of the full Hamiltonian and subsequently subjected to a non-Markovian amplitude-damping channel. To benchmark the persistence of nonclassical features in this noisy setting, we track four complementary quantum resources: entanglement via negativity (NEG), nonclassical correlations via geometric quantum discord (GQD), coherence via the [Formula: see text]-norm of coherence (LNC) and measurement-induced quantumness via local quantum uncertainty (LQU). We show that coherent exchange coupling g enhances both the initial magnitudes and lifetimes of all resources by strengthening qubit–qutrit hybridization, whereas strong dispersive (cross-Kerr) coupling [Formula: see text] suppresses thermal correlations already at [Formula: see text], thereby limiting the resources available before dissipation sets in. Environmental memory effects, controlled by the reservoir cutoff frequency, slow the decay and can induce some revival pattern–assisted decay, extending the operational time window slightly. Across a broad parameter range, coherence (LNC) is consistently the most robust resource, often persisting after entanglement and discord have decayed, indicating that coherence-based protocols may provide superior stability in noisy hybrid architectures.
The uncertainty principle limits the ability for observer to precisely measure two incompatible observables, and plays a crucial role in quantum precision measurement in the quantum information science. When quantum systems interact with their surroundings, they inevitably result in decoherence, which increases the uncertainty of the system. In the process of quantum information processing, the effective regulation of uncertainty becomes a key problem that needs to be solved. In this work, we investigate the quantum-memory-assisted entropic uncertainty relation of a two-qubit system under correlated channels with dephasing colored noise. We demonstrate that it is possible to control the entropic uncertainty, U, and its lower bound, Ub, by combining correlations between successive uses of channels and the non-Markovianity of the dynamical evolution. Firstly, the evolutionary characteristics of the trace distance are employed to distinguish between Markovianity and non-Markovianity of the channel. Subsequently, the system is selected to be either a maximally entangled state or separated state initially. By adjusting the strength η of the correlations, we find that with the increase of η, the entropic uncertainty and its lower bound decrease. Especially, if the channel is fully correlated (η = 1), the entropic uncertainty and its lower bound remain constant under the channel, indicating that decoherence is completely suppressed. A comparison of Markovian channel with non-Markovian channel reveals that the entropic uncertainty and its lower bound exhibit oscillatory behaviour under non-Markovian channels. The combination of correlations and non-Markovianity of the channel demonstrates that the entropic uncertainty and its lower bound can be reduced under fully correlated channels where the non-Markovianity has no effect. This is because fully correlated channels suppress decoherence to a greatest extent. Under partially correlated channels, the combination of correlations and non-Markovianity can more effectively reduce the entropic uncertainty and its lower bound. Under such channels, correlations of the channel reduce the entropic uncertainty and its lower bound during the whole evolution, while the non-Markovianity contributes to their oscillations and reduce them in some specific time. Furthermore, the results show that the entropic uncertainty and its lower bound reach steady values that depend only on the strength of the correlations after long-time evolution. In other words, the stronger the correlations, the lower the entropy uncertainty and its lower bound of steady states will be. Finally, we analyse the physical nature of the decrease of the entropic uncertainty and its lower bound, and it is found that the decrease of the entropic uncertainty and its lower bound originate from the increase of the quantum correlations in the system.
Abstract This work investigates the dynamics of quantum correlations and entanglement in a thermal bipartite dipolar spin system with Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya (DM) interaction, subjected to both Markovian and non-Markovian noise. By analyzing amplitude damping and random telegraph noise channels, we derive explicit analytic forms for the thermal density matrix and quantify coherence, concurrence, quantum discord, local quantum uncertainty (ℒ𝓠𝒰), and teleportation fidelity. Our results reveal that the interplay of temperature and DM interaction crucially governs the robustness of quantum resources. In particular, non-Markovian regimes exhibit memory-induced oscillatory revivals, while Markovian channels produce irreversible decay. Importantly, we identify a hierarchy of robustness, with coherence being more resilient than discord, which in turn surpasses entanglement and ℒ𝓠𝒰, providing design principles for preserving quantum correlations. These findings extend existing open-system studies by highlighting the role of DM interaction and dipolar coupling in tailoring noise resilience, offering practical implications for solid-state spintronics and quantum communication.
Abstract Quantum objects are susceptible to noise from their surrounding environments, interaction with which inevitably gives rise to quantum decoherence or dissipation effects. In this work, we examine how different types of local noise under an open system affect entropic uncertainty relations for two incompatible measurements. Explicitly, we observe the dynamics of the entropic uncertainty in the presence of quantum memory under two canonical categories of noisy environments: unital (phase flip) and nonunital (amplitude damping). Our study shows that the measurement uncertainty exhibits a non-monotonic dynamical behavior—that is, the amount of the uncertainty will first inflate, and subsequently decrease, with the growth of decoherence strengths in the two channels. In contrast, the uncertainty decreases monotonically with the growth of the purity of the initial state shared in prior. In order to reduce the measurement uncertainty in noisy environments, we put forward a remarkably effective strategy to steer the magnitude of uncertainty by means of a local non-unitary operation (i.e. weak measurement) on the qubit of interest. It turns out that this non-unitary operation can greatly reduce the entropic uncertainty, upon tuning the operation strength. Our investigations might thereby offer an insight into the dynamics and steering of entropic uncertainty in open systems.
Abstract We address the dynamics of the lower bound of geometric quantum discord and quantum-memory-assisted entropic uncertainty in a two-qutrit system when exposed to classical channels characterized by power-law (PL) and random telegraph (RT) noises. The system-channel coupling strategy is examined in two contexts: common qutrit-environment (CQE) and different qutrit-environment (DQE) configurations. We show that the geometric quantum discord functions remain anti-correlated with entropic uncertainty and decline as uncertainty appears in the system. The rate of entropic uncertainty appearance seems more prevalent than the decline rate of quantum discord function, suggesting that uncertainty causes the quantum correlations to fade in quantum systems. We find that non-local correlations estimated by the lower bound of geometric quantum discord are not destroyed even at the maximum entropic disorder and entropic uncertainty. In addition, the efficacy of entropic uncertainty and the lower bound is strongly influenced by the state’s purity factor, with the former being more robust at higher purity values and the latter at lower purity values. All the parameters impact entropic uncertainty, however, the mixedness of the state is noticed to greatly alter the generation of quantum memory. Besides, PL noise caused Markovian behavioral dynamics, and the RT noise allowed non-Markovian dynamics, while the latter remains more resourceful for the quantum correlations preservation and entropic uncertainty suppression. We also demonstrate how to model longer quantum correlations and provide optimal parameter settings for suppressing the dephasing and entropic uncertainty effects.