Sean Carrol created a flow chart such that fundamental particles can determine which particles they are based on their physical properties and quantum numbers.
This should clear up most particle personality confusions.
Month: April 2012
Paper: Unification of witnessing initial system-environment correlations and witnessing non-Markovianity
We have posted yet another paper in the arXiv. It has been some intense weeks lately.
Unification of witnessing initial system-environment correlations and witnessing non-Markovianity
We show the connection between a witness that detects dynamical maps with initial system-environment correlations and a witness that detects non-Markovian open quantum systems. Our analysis is based on studying the role that state preparation plays in witnessing violations of contractivity of open quantum system dynamics. Contractivity is a property of some quantum processes where the trace distance of density matrices decrease with time. From this, we show how a witness of initial-correlations is an upper bound to a witness of non-Markovianity. We discuss how this relationship shows further connections between initial system-environment correlations and non-Markovianity at an instance of time in open quantum systems.
This paper is related to the previously posted paper.
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