Sequences of information backflow in local dephasing channels with spectral gaps

Abstract

The flow of quantum information in local dephasing channels is analyzed over short and long times in case the structured reservoirs of frequency modes exhibit a spectral gap in the density of modes over low frequencies. The presence of the low-frequency gap with upper cut-off frequency $\omega_g$ produces over the time scale $1/\omega_g$ an infinite sequence of time intervals over which information backflow appears. Such time intervals are generally irregular but, under certain conditions, exhibit the following bounds: the $n$th backflow has certainly started at the instant $\pi \left(1+2(n-1)\right)/\omega_g$, and certainly ended at the instant $2\pi n/\omega_g$, for every $n=1,2,\ldots$. The intervals become regular over long times, tend to the asymptotic length $\pi/\omega_g$ as supremum value, and are described analytically in terms of the structure of the spectral density near the cut-off frequency. Consequently, engineering structured reservoirs of frequency modes with low-frequency spectral gaps produces in local dephasing channels regular and controllable sequences of information backflow and recoherence over long times, along with non-Markovian evolution.