Environment generated quantum correlations in bipartite qubit-qutrit systems

The dynamics of entanglement and quantum discord for qubit-qutrit systems are studied in the presence of phase damping and amplitude damping noises. Both one way and two couplings of the marginal systems with the environments are considered. Entanglement sudden death is unavoidable under any setup, however, the required time span depends on the way of coupling. On the other hand, the dynamics of quantum discord strongly depends both on the nature of environment and on the number of dimensions of the Hilbert space of the coupled marginal system. We show that freezing and invariance of quantum discord, as previously reported in the literature, are limited to some special cases. Most importantly, it is noted that under some particular coupling the existence of environment can guarantee the generation of nonclassical correlations.