Completely Positive Divisibility Does Not Mean Markovianity

Simon Milz*, M. S. Kim, Felix A. Pollock, Kavan Modi

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Abstract

In the classical domain, it is well known that divisibility does not imply that a stochastic process is Markovian. However, for quantum processes, divisibility is often considered to be synonymous with Markovianity. We show that completely positive divisible quantum processes can still involve non-Markovian temporal correlations, that we then fully classify using the recently developed process tensor formalism, which generalizes the theory of stochastic processes to the quantum domain.
Original languageEnglish
Article number040401
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume123
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 26 Jul 2019

Keywords

  • Open quantum systems & decoherence
  • Quantum control

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