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Non-Markovian entanglement dynamics between two coupled qubits in the same environment

Quantum Physics 2009-11-02 v1

Abstract

We analyze the dynamics of the entanglement in two independent non-Markovian channels. In particular, we focus on the entanglement dynamics as a function of the initial states and the channel parameters like the temperature and the ratio rr between ω0\omega_0 the characteristic frequency of the quantum system of interest, and ωc\omega_c the cut-off frequency of Ohmic reservoir. We give a stationary analysis of the concurrence and find that the dynamic of non-markovian entanglement concurrence Cρ(t)\mathcal{C}_{\rho}(t) at temperature kBT=0k_BT=0 is different from the kBT>0k_BT>0 case. We find that "entanglement sudden death" (ESD) depends on the initial state when kBT=0k_BT=0, otherwise the concurrence always disappear at finite time when kBT>0k_BT>0, which means that ESD must happen. The main result of this paper is that the non-Markovian entanglement dynamic is fundamentally different from the Markovian one. In the Markovian channel, entanglement decays exponentially and vanishes only asymptotically, but in the non-Markovian channel the concurrence Cρ(t)\mathcal{C}_{\rho}(t) oscillates, especially in the high temperature case. Then an open-loop controller adjusted by the temperature is proposed to control the entanglement and prolong the ESD time.

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@article{arxiv.0910.5793,
  title  = {Non-Markovian entanglement dynamics between two coupled qubits in the same environment},
  author = {Wei Cui and Zairong Xi and Yu Pan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0910.5793},
  year   = {2009}
}

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14 pages, 7 figures

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