@Article{Hinarejos_etal2017, author="Hinarejos, M. and Ba{\~{n}}uls, M. C. and Perez, A. and de Vega, I.", title="Non-Markovianity and memory of the initial state", journal="Journal of Physics A", year="2017", publisher="Iop Publishing Ltd", volume="50", number="32", pages="335301 - 17pp", optkeywords="non-Markovianity; quantum distinguisability; quantum fidelity", abstract="We explore in a rigorous manner the intuitive connection between the non-Markovianity of the evolution of an open quantum system and the performance of the system as a quantum memory. Using the paradigmatic case of a two-level open quantum system coupled to a bosonic bath, we compute the recovery fidelity, which measures the best possible performance of the system to store a qubit of information. We deduce that this quantity is connected, but not uniquely determined, by the non-Markovianity, for which we adopt the Breuer-Laine-Piilo measure proposed in Breuer et al (2009 Phys. Rev. Lett. 103 210401). We illustrate our findings with explicit calculations for the case of a structured environment.", optnote="WOS:000405672800001", optnote="exported from refbase (https://references.ific.uv.es/refbase/show.php?record=3206), last updated on Wed, 20 Nov 2019 16:19:38 +0000", issn="1751-8113", doi="10.1088/1751-8121/aa7972", opturl="http://arxiv.org/abs/1606.01185", opturl="https://doi.org/10.1088/1751-8121/aa7972", archivePrefix="arXiv", eprint="1606.01185", language="English" }