1207.3918 (Bassano Vacchini)

A classical appraisal of quantum definitions of non-Markovian dynamics    [PDF]

Bassano Vacchini

We consider the issue of non-Markovianity of a quantum dynamics starting from a comparison with the classical definition of Markovian process. We point to the fact that two sufficient but not necessary signatures of non-Markovianity of a classical process find their natural quantum counterpart in recently introduced measures of quantum non-Markovianity. This behavior is analyzed in detail for quantum dynamics which can be built taking as input a class of classical processes.

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