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Experimental Demonstration of Instrument-Specific Quantum Memory Effects and Non-Markovian Process Recovery for Common-Cause Processes.
- Source :
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Physical Review Letters . 6/11/2021, Vol. 126 Issue 23, p1-1. 1p. - Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- The duration, strength, and structure of memory effects are crucial properties of physical evolution. Because of the invasive nature of quantum measurement, such properties must be defined with respect to the probing instruments employed. Here, using a photonic platform, we experimentally demonstrate this necessity via two paradigmatic processes: future-history correlations in the first process can be erased by an intermediate quantum measurement; for the second process, a noisy classical measurement blocks the effect of history. We then apply memory truncation techniques to recover an efficient description that approximates expectation values for multitime observables. Our proof-of-principle analysis paves the way for experiments concerning more general non-Markovian quantum processes and highlights where standard open systems techniques break down. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *QUANTUM measurement
*MEMORY
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00319007
- Volume :
- 126
- Issue :
- 23
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Physical Review Letters
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 150882519
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.230401