Decoherence and multipartite entanglement
Quantum Physics
2009-11-10 v1
Abstract
We study the dynamics of multipartite entanglement under the influence of decoherence. A suitable generalization of concurrence reveals distinct scaling of the entanglement decay rate of GHZ and W states, for various environments.
Cite
@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0410208,
title = {Decoherence and multipartite entanglement},
author = {André R. R. Carvalho and Florian Mintert and Andreas Buchleitner},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0410208},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Lett