Geometry-controlled freezing and revival of Bell nonlocality through environmental memory

We show that the distance between two qubits coupled to a structured reservoir acts as a single geometric control that can store, revive, or suppress Bell nonlocality. In a mirror-terminated guide, quantum correlations lost to the bath return at discrete recurrence times, turning a product state into a Bell-violating one without any entangling drive (only local basis rotations/readout). In the continuum limit, we derive closed-form criteria for the emergence of nonlocality from backflow, and introduce a Bell-based analogue of the BLP measure to quantify this effect. We also show how subwavelength displacements away from a decoherence-free node quadratically reduce the lifetime of a dark state or bright state, enabling highly sensitive interferometric detection. All results rely on analytically solvable models and are compatible with current superconducting and nanophotonic platforms, offering a practical route to passive, geometry-controlled non-Markovian devices.

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Physical review. A/Physical review, A
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2026-01-13
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https://doi.org/10.1103/mycc-r3bx
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Quantum Information and Cryptography
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Geometry-controlled freezing and revival of Bell nonlocality through environmental memory

Mohamed Hatifi
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Geometry-controlled freezing and revival of Bell nonlocality through environmental memory

Mohamed Hatifi
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Abstract

We show that the distance between two qubits coupled to a structured reservoir acts as a single geometric control that can store, revive, or suppress Bell nonlocality. In a mirror-terminated guide, quantum correlations lost to the bath return at discrete recurrence times, turning a product state into a Bell-violating one without any entangling drive (only local basis rotations/readout). In the continuum limit, we derive closed-form criteria for the emergence of nonlocality from backflow, and introduce a Bell-based analogue of the BLP measure to quantify this effect. We also show how subwavelength displacements away from a decoherence-free node quadratically reduce the lifetime of a dark state or bright state, enabling highly sensitive interferometric detection. All results rely on analytically solvable models and are compatible with current superconducting and nanophotonic platforms, offering a practical route to passive, geometry-controlled non-Markovian devices.

Physical review. A/Physical review, AVol. 113(2)
Aix-Marseille Université (FR), Institut Fresnel (FR)
Openalex Percentile: Top 99%
Quantum Information and Cryptography
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