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Effects of Collisional Decoherence on Multipartite Entanglement - How would entanglement not be relatively common?

Quantum Physics 2013-05-29 v1

Abstract

We consider the collision model of Ziman {\em et al.} and study the robustness of NN-qubit Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ), W, and linear cluster states. Our results show that NN-qubit entanglement of GHZ states would be extremely fragile under collisional decoherence, and that of W states could be more robust than of linear cluster states. We indicate that the collision model of Ziman {\em et al.} could provide a physical mechanism to some known results in this area of investigations. More importantly, we show that it could give a clue as to how NN-partite distillable entanglement would be relatively rare in our macroscopic classical world.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0602169,
  title  = {Effects of Collisional Decoherence on Multipartite Entanglement - How would entanglement not be relatively common?},
  author = {Guang-Hao Low and Zhiming Shi and Ye Yeo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0602169},
  year   = {2013}
}

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