Multipartite concurrence for $$X$$ X states under decoherence

Abstract

In this paper, the dynamics evolution of multipartite entanglement for each qubit interacting with a local decoherence channel, such as phase damping, phase flip, bit flip and bit-phase flip channel, is investigated. It is shown that the initial concurrence monotonously decreases much faster with the number of qubit increases and there exists entanglement sudden death (ESD) only for the bit flip channel and bit-phase flip channels. Meanwhile, the time of ESD decreases with the increases of the number of qubit in the multipartite system.