Single snapshot non-Markovianity of Pauli channels

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2602.13145v1
• Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2026 17:55:34 GMT
• Title: Single snapshot non-Markovianity of Pauli channels
• Authors: Alireza Seif, Moein Malekakhlagh, Swarnadeep Majumder Luke C. G. Govia,
• Abstract summary: Pauli channels are widely used to describe errors in quantum computers.<n>We study multi-qubit Pauli channels from a single snapshot of the dynamics.<n>We find that while the generator always has the same structure as the standard Pauli-Lindblad model, the rates may be negative or complex.
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• Abstract: Pauli channels are widely used to describe errors in quantum computers, particularly when noise is shaped via Pauli twirling. A common assumption is that such channels admit a Markovian generator, namely a Pauli-Lindblad model with non-negative rates, but the validity of this assumption has not been systematically examined. Here, using CP-indivisibility as our criterion for non-Markovianity, we study multi-qubit Pauli channels from a single snapshot of the dynamics. We find that while the generator always has the same structure as the standard Pauli-Lindblad model, the rates may be negative or complex. We show that random Pauli channels are almost always non-Markovian, with the probability of encountering a negative rate converging doubly exponentially to unity with the number of qubits. For physically motivated noise models shaped by Pauli twirling, including single-qubit over-rotations and two-qubit amplitude damping errors, we find that negative rates are generic, even when the underlying physical noise is Markovian. We generalize probabilistic error amplification and cancellation to non-Markovian generators, and quantify the sampling overhead introduced by negative and complex rates. Experiments on superconducting qubits confirm that allowing negative rates in the learned noise model yields more accurate predictions than restricting to non-negative rates.

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