Tensor power of dynamical maps and positive versus completely positive divisibility

Fabio Benatti, Dariusz Chruściński, and Sergey Filippov
Phys. Rev. A 95, 012112 – Published 11 January 2017

Abstract

The are several nonequivalent notions of Markovian quantum evolution. In this paper we show that the one based on the so-called CP divisibility of the corresponding dynamical map enjoys the following stability property: the dynamical map Λt is CP divisible if and only if the second tensor power ΛtΛt is CP divisible as well. Moreover, the P divisibility of the map ΛtΛt is equivalent to the CP divisibility of the map Λt. Interestingly, the latter property is no longer true if we replace the P divisibility of ΛtΛt by simple positivity and the CP divisibility of Λt by complete positivity. That is, unlike when Λt has a time-independent generator, positivity of ΛtΛt does not imply complete positivity of Λt.

  • Received 5 November 2016

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.95.012112

©2017 American Physical Society

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General Physics

Authors & Affiliations

Fabio Benatti

  • Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Trieste, I-34151 Trieste, Italy and Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Trieste, I-34151 Trieste, Italy

Dariusz Chruściński

  • Institute of Physics, Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Informatics, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Grudziadzka 5/7, 87-100 Torun, Poland

Sergey Filippov

  • Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Institutskii Per. 9, Dolgoprudny, Moscow Region 141700, Russia

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Vol. 95, Iss. 1 — January 2017

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