Completely Positive Divisibility Does Not Mean Markovianity

Understand

In the classical domain, it is well-known that divisibility does not imply that a stochastic process is Markovian.

• However, for quantum processes, divisibility is often considered to be synonymous with Markovianity.
• We show that completely positive (CP) divisible quantum processes can still involve non-Markovian temporal correlations, that we then fully classify using the recently developed process tensor formalism, which generalizes the theory of stochastic processes to the quantum domain.