Correlations break homogenization

Abstract: The standard collisional model paradigm consists of a system that interacts sequentially with identically prepared ancillas. After infinitely many collisions, and under appropriate conditions, the system may converge to the same state as the ancillas. This process, known as homogenization, is independent of the ancilla initial state, being a property only of the underlying dynamics. In this paper we extend this idea to locally identical, but globally correlated, ancillas, and show that correlations break homogenization. This is done numerically using a minimal qubit model, and analytically using an exactly soluble Gaussian model. In both cases, we use Hamiltonian graph states with cyclic graphs as the prototypical method for building scalable many-body entangled ancillary states.