Non-classicality of two-qubit quantum collision model: non-Markovian effects

TL;DR

This paper explores non-Markovian effects in a two-qubit quantum collision model, analyzing non-classicality and steady-state behaviors through various measures in different interaction schemes.

Contribution

It introduces two novel collision model schemes with ancilla-ancilla interactions to study non-Markovian dynamics and non-classicality in two-qubit systems.

Findings

Non-Markovian dynamics are characterized using trace distance.

Non-classicality is quantified via Wigner function, volume, and concurrence.

Steady-state behaviors emerge when ancillae are at the same temperature.

Abstract

We investigate a two-qubit quantum system in contact with an environment modeled by a microscopic collision model with added ancilla-ancilla collisions in the non-Markovian regime. Two schemes of the two-qubit collision model with carried-forward correlations are introduced. In one scheme, a single stream of ancillae interacts with only one of the qubits of the two-qubit system; in the other, both the qubits interact with two independent sequences of ancillae, which could be at the same or different temperatures. The system's non-Markovian evolution is examined using the trace distance measure, and the non-classicality of the system is studied using the Wigner function, non-classical volume, and concurrence. Also, interesting steady-state behavior is observed when both the independent ancillae are kept at the same temperature.