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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.

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@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