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Complete positivity, finite-temperature effects, and additivity of noise for time-local qubit dynamics




AuthorsJuho Lankinen, Henri Lyyra, Boris Sokolov, Jose Teittinen, Babak Ziaei, and Sabrina Maniscalco

PublisherAmerican Phyiscal Society

Publication year2016

JournalPhysical Review A

Journal acronymPhys. Rev. A

Article number052103

Volume93

Issue5

Number of pages6

ISSN2469-9926

eISSN2469-9934

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.93.052103

Web address http://journals.aps.org/pra/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevA.93.052103


Abstract

We present a general model of qubit dynamics which entails pure
dephasing and dissipative time-local master equations. This allows us to
describe the combined effect of thermalization and dephasing beyond the
usual Markovian approximation. We investigate the complete positivity
conditions and introduce a heuristic model that is always physical and
provides the correct Markovian limit. We study the effects of
temperature on the non-Markovian behavior of the system and show that
the noise additivity property discussed by Yu and Eberly [Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 140403 (2006)] holds beyond the Markovian limit.


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