Emergent Non-Markovianity in Logical Qubit Dynamics

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2512.08893v1
• Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2025 18:33:47 GMT
• Title: Emergent Non-Markovianity in Logical Qubit Dynamics
• Authors: Jalan A. Ziyad, Robin Blume-Kohout, Kenneth Rudinger,
• Abstract summary: Logical qubits encoded in quantum error correcting codes can exhibit non-Markovian dynamical evolution.<n>We define a Markovianity condition appropriate to logical gate operations, and study it by relating logical operations to their physical implementation.<n>We show that non-Markovianity can emerge from Markovian physical operations if (and only if) the physical qubits are not necessarily returned to the code subspace after every round of QEC.
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• Abstract: Logical qubits encoded in quantum error correcting codes can exhibit non-Markovian dynamical evolution, even when the underlying physical noise is Markovian. To understand this emergent non-Markovianity, we define a Markovianity condition appropriate to logical gate operations, and study it by relating logical operations to their physical implementation (operations on the data qubits into which the logical qubit is encoded). We apply our analysis to small quantum codes, and show that they exhibit non-Markovian dynamics even for very simple physical noise models. We show that non-Markovianity can emerge from Markovian physical operations if (and only if) the physical qubits are not necessarily returned to the code subspace after every round of QEC. In this situation, the syndrome qubits can act as a memory, mediating time correlations and enabling violation of the Markov condition. We quantify the emergent non-Markovianity in simple examples, and propose sufficient conditions for reliable use of gate-based characterization techniques like gate set tomography in early fault-tolerant quantum devices.

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