Nadia Milazzo 1 Salvatore LorenzoMauro Paternostro 2 G. Massimo Palma
Nadia Milazzo, Salvatore Lorenzo, Mauro Paternostro, G. Massimo Palma. Role of information backflow in the emergence of quantum Darwinism. Physical Review A, American Physical Society 2019, 100 (1), ⟨10.1103/PhysRevA.100.012101⟩. ⟨hal-02291799⟩
Quantum Darwinism attempts to explain the emergence of objective reality of the state of a quantum system in terms of redundant information about the system acquired by independent non interacting fragments of the environment. The consideration of interacting environmental elements gives rise to a rich phenomenology, including the occurrence of non-Markovian features, whose effects on objectification {\it a’ la} quantum Darwinism needs to be fully understood. We study a model of local interaction between a simple quantum system and a multi-mode environment that allows for a clear investigation of the interplay between information trapping and propagation in the environment and the emergence of quantum Darwinism. We provide strong evidence of the correlation between non-Markovianity and quantum Darwinism in such a model, thus providing strong evidence of a potential link between such fundamental phenomena.
- 1. LPTMS – Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Modèles Statistiques
- 2. Centre for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics