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Non-Markovian dynamics of quantum coherence of two-level system driven by classical field

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In this paper, we study the quantum coherence dynamics of two-level atom system embedded in non-Markovian reservoir in the presence of classical driving field. We analyze the influence of memory effects, classical driving, and detuning on the quantum coherence. It is found that the quantum coherence has different behaviors in resonant case and non-resonant case. In the resonant case, in stark contrast with previous results, the strength of classical driving plays a negative effect on quantum coherence, while detuning parameter has the opposite effect. However, in non-resonant case through a long time, classical driving and detuning parameter have a different influence on quantum coherence compared with resonant case. Due to the memory effect of environment, in comparison with Markovian regime, quantum coherence presents vibrational variations in non-Markovian regime. In the resonant case, all quantum coherence converges to a fixed maximum value; in the non-resonant case, quantum coherence evolves to different stable values. For zero-coherence initial states, quantum coherence can be generated with evolution time. Our discussions and results should be helpful in manipulating and preserving the quantum coherence in dissipative environment with classical driving field.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61502179), the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province of China (Grant No. 2014A030310265), the Science Foundation for Young Teachers of Wuyi University (Grant No. 2015zk01), and the Doctoral Research Foundation of Wuyi University (Grant No. 2017BS07).

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Huang, Z., Situ, H. Non-Markovian dynamics of quantum coherence of two-level system driven by classical field. Quantum Inf Process 16, 222 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11128-017-1673-0

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