Quantum Dynamical Entropy and non-Markovianity: a collisional model perspective

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2603.14015v1
• Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2026 16:39:38 GMT
• Title: Quantum Dynamical Entropy and non-Markovianity: a collisional model perspective
• Abstract summary: Multi-time correlations form the basis of both the theory of quantum processes and of the Alicki-Lindblad-Fannes dynamical entropy (ALF entropy for short)<n>In the case of a collisional model whereby the dissipative dynamics of a finite-level system is obtained by its coupling to an infinite classical spin chain, the ALF entropy can be explicitly computed.<n>It turns out to depend on the parameters characterizing the statistical properties of the environment and can be related to the activation and super-activation of memory effects in the open quantum system.
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• Abstract: Accessing the physical mechanisms behind non-Markovian phenomena in open quantum dynamics requires the study of the statistical properties of the joint system-environment dynamics. This is impossible at the level of the reduced dynamics of the open system alone as the latter is obtained by suitably eliminating the environment. The task is instead made possible by considering multi-time correlation functions involving observables of the open system, only: the open system-environment interactions turn them into global ones thus building up correlations between the two systems. Multi-time correlations form the basis of both the theory of quantum stochastic processes and of the Alicki-Lindblad-Fannes dynamical entropy (ALF entropy for short). This latter quantity provides for quantum systems a measure of the dynamical entropy production as the Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy does for classical systems. In the case of a collisional model whereby the dissipative dynamics of a finite-level system is obtained by its coupling to an infinite classical spin chain, the ALF entropy can be explicitly computed. It turns out to depend on the parameters characterizing the statistical properties of the environment and can be related to the activation and super-activation of memory effects in the open quantum system.

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