Phys. Rev. A 75, 062336 (2007) [9 pages]Disentanglement in a two-qubit system subjected to dissipation environmentsReceived 26 February 2007; published 29 June 2007 We investigate the time evolution of entanglement of various entangled states of a two-qubit system exposed to either thermal or squeezed reservoirs. We show that, except for the vacuum reservoir, the sudden-death of entanglement always exists in the thermal and squeezed reservoirs. We present explicit expression for the sudden-death time of entanglement for various entangled states. We find that the sudden-death of entanglement results from the portion of the double excitation component in the initial entangled state. In this sense, the maximally entangled states of a two-qubit system that do not have the double excitation component is more robust against the quantum fluctuations of the vacuum reservoir. © 2007 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.75.062336
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.75.062336
PACS:
03.67.Mn, 03.65.Yz, 03.65.Ud, 42.50.Lc
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