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Phys. Rev. A 80, 044301 (2009) [4 pages]

Entanglement monogamy and entanglement evolution in multipartite systems

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Yan-Kui Bai1,2, Ming-Yong Ye1,3, and Z. D. Wang1
1Department of Physics and Center of Theoretical and Computational Physics, University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong, China
2College of Physical Science and Information Engineering and Hebei Advance Thin Films Laboratory, Hebei Normal University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei 050016, China
3School of Physics and Optoelectronics Technology, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou 350007, China

Received 4 June 2009; published 15 October 2009

We analyze the entanglement distribution and the two-qubit residual entanglement in multipartite systems. For a composite system consisting of two cavities interacting with independent reservoirs, it is revealed that the entanglement evolution is restricted by an entanglement monogamy relation derived here. Moreover, it is found that the initial cavity-cavity entanglement evolves completely to the genuine four-partite cavities-reservoirs entanglement in the time interval between the sudden death of cavity-cavity entanglement and the birth of reservoir-reservoir entanglement. In addition, we also address the relationship between the genuine block-block entanglement form and qubit-block form in the interval.

© 2009 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.80.044301
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.80.044301
PACS:
03.67.Mn, 03.65.Ud, 03.65.Yz