Positivity of the assignment map implies complete positivity of the reduced dynamics

DOI10.1007/S11128-020-02810-6MaRDI QIDQ6321142arXivFDO

Authors Iman Sargolzahi

Publication date 27 June 2019

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/S11128-020-02810-6

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Convex sets and cones of operators (47L07) Applications of operator theory in the physical sciences (47N50) Open systems, reduced dynamics, master equations, decoherence (81S22)

arXiv classification

math-phmath.MPquant-ph

Abstract: Consider the set $mathcalS=lbraceh{o}_{SE}brace$ of possible initial states of the system-environment. The map which assigns to each $h{o}_{S}inmathrm{Tr}_{E}mathcalS$ a $h{o}_{SE}inmathcalS$ is called the assignment map. The assignment map is Hermitian, in general. In this paper, we restrict ourselves to the case that the assignment map is, in addition, positive and show that this implies that the so-called reference state is a Markov state. Markovianity of the reference state leads to existence of another assignment map which is completely positive. So, the reduced dynamics of the system is also completely positive. As a consequence, when the system $S$ is a qubit, we show that if $mathcalS$ includes entangled states, then either the reduced dynamics is not given by a map, for, at least, one unitary time evolution of the system-environment $U$, or the reduced dynamics is non-positive, for, at least, one $U$.

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