Preparation of States in Open Quantum Mechanics

We study preparation of states for open quantum mechanics. For non-Markovian systems that are initially correlated with the environment, the effects of the preparation procedure are nontrivial. This is due to the indirect effects on the state of the environment induced via the correlations with the system and the act of preparation on the system. We give three concrete examples of preparation procedure to elucidate our claims.

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