Entanglement In Open Systems Research Articles

Sudden death of entanglement in fermionic systems under collective decoherence

We analyze the dynamics of entanglement due to decoherence in a system of two identical fermions with spin 3/2 interacting with a global bosonic environment. We make use of an appropriate measure of the so-called fermionic entanglement to quantify the fermionic correlations, and compare the dynamical effects due to decoherence with those that arise in a pair of distinguishable qubits immersed in the same environment. According to the system’s initial state, three types of qualitatively different dynamics are identified: i) invariant regime, corresponding to initial states that belong to a decoherence free subspace (DFS), which maintain invariant their entanglement and coherence throughout the evolution; ii) exponential decay, corresponding to initial states orthogonal to the DFS, and evolve towards states whose entanglement and coherence decrease exponentially; iii) entanglement sudden death, corresponding to initial states that have some overlap with the DFS and exhibit a richer dynamics leading, in particular, to the sudden death of the fermionic entanglement, while the coherence decays exponentially. Our analysis offers insights into the dynamics of entanglement in open systems of identical particles and into the existence of decoherence free subspaces and entanglement sudden death in indistinguishable-fermion systems.

Enhancement of multipartite entanglement in an open system under non-inertial frames

In this paper, multipartite entanglement enhancement in an open system under non-inertial frames via local non-unitary operations is explored. Explicitly, we investigate an available methodology to enhance tripartite entanglement of X-state, when the systems suffer from amplitude damping (AD) noise and one subsystem is under non-inertial frames. As an illustration, we consider three cases (one subsystem or multi-subsystem suffers from decoherence) by using local non-unitary operations, and the corresponding entanglement behaviors are revealed. It turns out that the local non-unitary operation can enhance entanglement to some degree. The Unruh effect and decoherence will influence the tripartite entanglement. However, the impact of Unruh effect on tripartite entanglement is weaker than that of decoherence. In addition, we obtain an interesting result: One can estimate and probe the decoherence strength (AD noise) in accordance with the change of local non-unitary operation strength and genuinely multipartite entanglement variation. Therefore, our work may be beneficial to explore the dynamic behavior of tripartite entanglement in open systems under relativity frame.

Thermal quantum speed limit for classical-driving open systems

Quantum speed limit (QSL) time for open systems driven by classical fields is studied in the presence of thermal bosonic environments. The decoherence process is quantitatively described by the time convolutionless master equation. The evolution speed of an open system can be accelerated by means of driving classical fields at finite temperatures. It is found out that the structural reservoir at low temperature may contribute to the acceleration of quantum evolution. The manifest oscillation of QSL time happens under the circumstance of classical driving field. The scaling property of QSL for entangled systems is also investigated. It is demonstrated that the entanglement of open systems can be considered as one kind of resource for improving the potential capacity of thermal quantum speedup.

Dispersive reservoir influence on the superconducting phase qubit

An analytical description of a superconducting (SC) phase qubit coupled to a torsional resonator, which is damped by a dispersive reservoir, is presented based on the master equation. Therefore, the effect of the qubit phase damping on the dynamical behavior of the entanglement, purity loss and qubit inversion are investigated. It is found that the collapse and revival phenomena of qubit inversion are very sensitive not only to the damping parameter but also to the frequency detuning and the qubit distribution angle of the initial state. It is interesting to note that the purity of the state of the SC-qubit, which is measured by von Neumann entropy, can be completely lost due to the dispersive reservoir parameter. Because of the existence of dispersive reservoir, the von Neumann entropy cannot be a measure for the entanglement in open system. So, the negative eigenvalue of the partially transposed density matrix of qubit-resonator system is used to quantify the entanglement. For certain parameter sets, it is possible to control the degree and the dynamics of entanglement between the qubit and the torsional resonator.

Improving tripartite entanglement in open system by weak measurement and quantum measurement reversal

Qubits A, B and C, initially prepared in a like-GHZ state, are distributed to three remote receivers through a decoherence environment. A weak measurement is firstly performed on each qubit before experiencing the decoherence channel, and then the receivers carry out a quantum measurement reversal on individual qubit after receiving them. The qubits’ entanglement is evaluated by means of negativity. The results show the pre- and post-measurements’ strength has an important influence on tripartite entanglement for the initially given state, and proper pre- and post-measurements’ strength always effectively improves tripartite entanglement, which is significant to protect entanglement from decoherence.

Dynamics of entanglement in systems of identical fermions undergoing decoherence

Information that is stored in quantum-mechanical systems can be easily lost because of the interaction with the environment in a process known as decoherence. Possible physical implementations of many processes in quantum information theory involve systems of identical particles, whence comprehension of the dynamics of entanglement induced by decoherence processes in identical-particle open systems becomes relevant. Here we study the effects and concomitant entanglement evolution arising from the interaction between a system of two identical fermions and the environment for two paradigmatic quantum channels. Entanglement measures are introduced to quantify the entanglement between the different parties, and a study of the dynamics of entanglement for some particular examples is carried out. Our analysis, which includes also the evolution of an entanglement indicator based on an entropic criteria, offers insights into the dynamics of entanglement in open systems of identical particles, involving the emergence of multipartite genuine entanglement. The results improve our understanding of the phenomenon of decoherence and will provide strategies to control it.

Origination and survival of qudit-qudit entanglement in open systems

The exact reduced dynamics for two independent qudits dephasingly coupled to a common zero-temperature, super-Ohmic, bosonic environment is studied. It is shown that the qudit-qudit subsystem initially prepared in a separable state evolves into an entangled state. Details of the entanglement origination depend on both the coupling strength and the spectral properties of the environment as well as on the dimension of the qudit; the environment-induced entanglement can survive in the long-time limit. The entanglement dynamics of initially maximally entangled qudit-qudit states is analyzed for two examples: the qubit-qubit and qutrit-qutrit systems. The theory is applied to negative partial transposition entangled states of a two-qutrit system, which are shown to be distillable (for the assumed initial state) for arbitrary environment parameters.