We analyze and compare different measures for the degree of non-Markovianity in the dynamics of open quantum systems. These measures are based on the distinguishability of quantum states, which is quantified, on the one hand, by the trace distance or, more generally, by the trace norm of the Helstrom matrix and, on the other hand, by entropic quantifiers: the Jensen-Shannon divergence and the Holevo or quantum skew divergence. We explicitly construct a qubit dynamics for which the trace-norm-based non-Markovianity measure is nonzero, while all the entropic measures turn out to be zero. This leads to the surprising conclusion that the non-Markovianity measure which employs the trace norm of the Helstrom matrix is strictly stronger than all entropic non-Markovianity measures.
Entropic and trace-distance-based measures of non-Markovianity / F. Settimo, H. Breuer, B.M. Vacchini. - In: PHYSICAL REVIEW A. - ISSN 2469-9926. - 106:4(2022), pp. 042212.1-042212.10. [10.1103/PhysRevA.106.042212]
Entropic and trace-distance-based measures of non-Markovianity
B.M. VacchiniUltimo
2022
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We analyze and compare different measures for the degree of non-Markovianity in the dynamics of open quantum systems. These measures are based on the distinguishability of quantum states, which is quantified, on the one hand, by the trace distance or, more generally, by the trace norm of the Helstrom matrix and, on the other hand, by entropic quantifiers: the Jensen-Shannon divergence and the Holevo or quantum skew divergence. We explicitly construct a qubit dynamics for which the trace-norm-based non-Markovianity measure is nonzero, while all the entropic measures turn out to be zero. This leads to the surprising conclusion that the non-Markovianity measure which employs the trace norm of the Helstrom matrix is strictly stronger than all entropic non-Markovianity measures.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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