A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal
Non-Markovianity hinders Quantum Darwinism
Authors: Fernando Galve, Roberta Zambrini, Sabrina Maniscalco
Publisher: NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
Publication year: 2016
Journal: Scientific Reports
Journal name in source: SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
Journal acronym: SCI REP-UK
Article number: ARTN 19607
Volume: 6
Number of pages: 7
ISSN: 2045-2322
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/srep19607
We investigate Quantum Darwinism and the emergence of a classical world from the quantum one in connection with the spectral properties of the environment. We use a microscopic model of quantum environment in which, by changing a simple system parameter, we can modify the information back flow from environment into the system, and therefore its non-Markovian character. We show that the presence of memory effects hinders the emergence of classical objective reality, linking these two apparently unrelated concepts via a unique dynamical feature related to decoherence factors.
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