Exact Closed-Form Quantum Correlations of Maximally Entangled Qudit States under Arbitrary Non-Markovian Pure Dephasing

Abstract

We study the time evolution of entanglement and quantum discord for a pair of maximally entangled qudits of arbitrary dimension $d$ under non-Markovian pure dephasing, using the exact solution of the independent boson model. Because this solution requires no Born--Markov, Lindblad, or rotating-wave approximation, every result reported here follows directly from the exact dynamics. Exploiting the Toeplitz structure of the resulting density matrix, we obtain a closed-form expression for the negativity as a finite sum, valid for arbitrary dimension and evolution time, together with a corresponding closed-form expression for the quantum discord. For the family of dephased maximally entangled states considered here, we prove that a computational-basis measurement is globally optimal over the entire POVM space, thereby eliminating the numerical optimization otherwise required for evaluating the quantum discord. We further show that both quantities saturate, as the dimension grows, to a dimension-independent limiting value, with a convergence rate of exactly $1/d$. For negativity, this scaling law is established through a rigorous theorem, including a Gaussian-type error bound of order $e^{-\alpha d^2}$, and is confirmed across six independent parameter regimes for two distinct classes of spectral density, Lorentzian and Ohmic; for discord, the same leading-order behavior is found numerically across the six Lorentzian regimes. The analytical results are validated by independent numerical approaches, including reconstruction from the underlying definitions, arbitrary-precision arithmetic, and a complementary pseudomode cross-check.