Creation of two-particle entanglement in open macroscopic quantum systems

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DOI10.1155/2012/375182zbMATH Open1248.81016arXiv1109.2234OpenAlexW2168180715WikidataQ58066368 ScholiaQ58066368MaRDI QIDQ447494FDOQ447494

G. P. Berman, M. Merkli, F. Borgonovi, V. I. Tsifrinovich

Publication date: 4 September 2012

Published in: Advances in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider an open quantum system of N not directly interacting spins (qubits) in contact with both local and collective thermal environments. The qubit-environment interactions are energy conserving. We trace out the variables of the thermal environments and N-2 qubits to obtain the time-dependent reduced density matrix for two arbitrary qubits. We numerically simulate the reduced dynamics and the creation of entanglement (concurrence) as a function of the parameters of the thermal environments and the number of qubits, N. Our results demonstrate that the two-qubit entanglement generally decreases as N increases. We show analytically that in the limit N tending to infinity, no entanglement can be created. This indicates that collective thermal environments cannot create two-qubit entanglement when many qubits are located within a region of the size of the environment coherence length. We discuss possible applications of our approach to the development of a new quantum characterization of noisy environments.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1109.2234




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