Enhancing coherence by local parity-time symmetric operation under the non-Markovian environment

Abstract The dynamic behavior of the relative entropy of coherence for a two-level system is systematically investigated within non-Markovian environment. We derive the exact expressions of relative entropy quantifying coherence for an exactly solving model consisting of single qubit interacting with independent structured reservoir. By employing local non-Hermitian operation, i.e. parity-time ( <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" overflow="scroll"> <mml:mrow> <mml:mrow> <mml:mi class="MJX-tex-calligraphic">PT</mml:mi> </mml:mrow> </mml:mrow> </mml:math> ) symmetric operation, we show that the vanished quantum coherence can be effectively restored under the non-Markovian regimes. Furthermore, the freezing phenomenon of the coherence can be detected by using the optimal <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" overflow="scroll"> <mml:mrow> <mml:mrow> <mml:mi class="MJX-tex-calligraphic">PT</mml:mi> </mml:mrow> </mml:mrow> </mml:math> symmetric operation strength within the non-Markovian environments.