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Phys. Rev. A 75, 062336 (2007) [9 pages]

Disentanglement in a two-qubit system subjected to dissipation environments

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Manzoor Ikram1, Fu-li Li1,2, and M. Suhail Zubairy1,3
1Centre for Quantum Physics, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan
2Department of Applied Physics, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China
3Institute for Quantum Studies and Department of Physics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843-4242, USA and Texas A&M University at Qatar, Education City, P. O. Box 23874, Doha, Qatar

Received 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