Physics – Quantum Physics
Scientific paper
2010-09-28
Phys. Rev. A 85, 032318 (2012)
Physics
Quantum Physics
8 pages, 4 figures; this version to appear in Phys. Rev. A
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevA.85.032318
Revivals of quantum correlations have often been explained in terms of back-action on quantum systems by their quantum environment(s). Here we consider a system of two independently evolving qubits, each locally interacting with a classical random external field. The environments of the qubits are also independent, and there is no back-action on the qubits. Nevertheless, entanglement, quantum discord and classical correlations between the two qubits may revive in this model. We explain the revivals in terms of correlations in a classical-quantum state of the environments and the qubits. Although classical states cannot store entanglement on their own, they can play a role in storing and reviving entanglement. It is important to know how the absence of back-action, or modelling an environment as classical, affects the kind of system time evolutions one is able to describe. We find a class of global time evolutions where back-action is absent and for which there is no loss of generality in modelling the environment as classical. Finally, we show that the revivals can be connected with the increase of a parameter used to quantify non-Markovianity of the single-qubit dynamics.
Andersson Erika
Bellomo Bruno
Compagno Giuseppe
Franco Rosario Lo
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