Phonon decoherence of quantum entanglement: Robust and fragile states
- 13 November 2002
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 66 (19) , 193306
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.66.193306
Abstract
We study the robustness and fragility of entanglement of open quantum systems in some exactly solvable models in which the decoherence is caused by a pure dephasing process. In particular, for the toy models presented in this paper, we identify two different time scales, one is responsible for local dephasing, while the other is for entanglement decay. For a class of fragile entangled states defined in this paper, we find that the entanglement of two qubits, as measured by concurrence, decays faster asymptotically than the quantum dephasing of an individual qubit.Keywords
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