Quasi-Entropies and Non-Markovianity

Abstract

We address an informational puzzle that appears with a non-Markovian open qubit dynamics: namely the fact that, while, according to the existing witnesses of information flows, a single qubit affected by that dissipative dynamics does not show information returning to it from its environment, instead two qubits do show such information when evolving independently under the same dynamics. We solve the puzzle by adding the so-called quasi-entropies to the possible witnesses of information flows.

Keywords

• non-markovian quantum dynamics
• dynamical monotones
• quasi-entropies