Effects of classical random external field on the dynamics of entanglement in a four-qubit system

We investigate the dynamics of entanglement through negativity and witness operators in a system of four non-interacting qubits driven by a classical phase noisy laser characterized by a classical random external field (CREF). The qubits are initially prepared in the GHZ-type and W-type states and interact with the CREF in two different qubit-field configurations, namely, common environment and independent environments in which the cases of equal and different field phase probabilities are distinguished. We find that entanglement exhibits different decaying behavior, depending on the input states of the qubits, the qubit-field coupling configuration, and field phase probabilities. On the one hand, we demonstrate that the coupling of the qubits in a common environment is an alternative and more efficient strategy to completely shield the system from the detrimental impacts of the decoherence process induced by a CREF, independent of the input state and the field phase probabilities considered. Also, we show that GHZ-type states have strong dynamics under CREF as compared to W-type states. On the other hand, we demonstrate that in the model investigated the system robustness's can be greatly improved by increasing the number of qubits constituting the system.     

Decoherence of two-qubit system in a non-Markovian squeezed reservoir

The decoherence of two initially entangled qubits coupled with a squeezed vacuum cavity separately is investigated exactly. The results show that, first, in principle, the disentanglement time decreases with the increase of squeeze parameter r, due to the augmenting of average photon number of every mode in the squeezed vacuum cavity. Second, there appear entanglement revivals after the complete disentanglement for the case of even parity initial Bell state, while there occur the entanglement decrease and the entanglement revival before the complete disentanglement for the case of odd parity initial Bell state. The results are quite different from those for the case of qubits in a vacuum cavity.     

Entanglement Dynamics and Symmetry Breaking in Symmetric four Qubits GHZ- and W-type States Coupled to Classical Random Telegraph Noise in Mixed Environments

A system of three non-interacting qubits is used as a quantum probe to classify three classical non-Gaussian noises namely, the static noise (SN), colored noise (pink and brown spectrum) and random telegraph noise (RTN), according to their detrimental effects on the evolution of entanglement of the latter. The probe system is initially prepared in the GHZ state and coupled to the noises in independent environments. Seven configurations for the qubit-noise coupling (QNC) are considered. To estimate the destructive influence of each kind of noise, the tripartite negativity is employed to compare the evolution of entanglement in these QNC configurations to each other with the same noise parameters. It is shown that the evolution of entanglement is drastically impacted by the QNC configuration considered as well as the properties of the environmental noises and that the SN is more detrimental to the survival of entanglement than the RTN and colored noise, regardless of the Markov or non-Markov character of the RTN and the spectrum of the colored noise. On the other hand, it is shown that pink noise is more fatal to the system than the RTN and that the situation is totally reversed in the case of brown noise. Finally, it is demonstrated that these noises, in descending order of destructive influence, can be classified as follows: SN > pink noise > RTN > brown noise.

     

Disentanglement of Qubit in Dephasing Model

We investigate the entanglement evolution of two qubits that are initially in Werner state under the classical phase noise. We discuss the influence of mixture degree on disentanglement. It is showed that the more mixed the state, the shorter is the time of disentanglement.     

Entanglement dynamics of qubits in a common environment

We use the quantum jump approach to study the entanglement dynamics of a quantum register, which is composed of two or three dipole-dipole coupled two-level atoms, interacting with a common environment. Our investigation of entanglement dynamics reflects that the environment has dual actions on the entanglement of the qubits in the model. While the environment destroys the entanglement induced by the coherent dipole-dipole interactions, it can produce stable entanglement between the qubits prepared initially in a separable state. The analysis shows that it is the entangled decoherence-free states contained as components in the initial state that contribute to the stable entanglement. Our study indicates how the environmental noise produces the entanglement and exposes the interplay of environmental noise and coherent interactions of qubits on the entanglement.     

Entanglement for Two-Qubit Extended Werner-Like States: Effect of Non-Markovian Environments

We investigate the sudden birth and sudden death of entanglement of two qubits interacting with uncorrelated structured reservoirs. The system is initially prepared in two-qubit extended Werner-like state. We work out the dependence of the entanglement dynamics on both non-Markovian environments and the purity of initial state, and show that non-Markovian environments and the purity can control the time of the two-qubit entanglement sudden death and the reservoirs' entanglement sudden birth.Furthermore, under the conditions of different purity and initial entanglement, the revival of qubits' entanglement can manifest before, simultaneously or even after the disentanglement of their corresponding reservoirs.     

Creation and Destruction of Entanglement via Fourier Multiport Devices

We study entangling and disentangling functions of optical Fourier multiport devices in which input-output relation for the creation and annihilation operators is given by a finite Fourier transform. It is shown that these Fourier multiport devices can act as entanglement converters which can not only create entanglement from an unentangled state at the input but also destroy entanglement in an entangled state at the input. Creation and destruction of two-mode and three-mode entangled coherent states （ECSs） are investigated in detail. The creation and destruction of Bell-type two-mode ECS, GHZ-type and W-type three-mode ECSs are indicated explicitly through using Fourier four-port and six-port devices, respectively.     

Entanglement for Two Dissipative Qubits

Entanglement dynamics of two qubits from environmental perturbations with different initial conditions is investigated. The results show that the qubit-qubit interaction leads to a periodic disentanglement and entanglement. It is surprised that the sudden death of entanglement (ESD) does not happen for non-interacting qubits, but for both the cases of a pure dephasing environment and a normal environment, ESD emerges. The results may provide a useful clue to implement an entanglement quantum information.     

Dynamical creation of entanglement versus disentanglement in a system of three-level atoms with vacuum-induced coherences

The dynamics of entanglement between three-level atoms coupled to the common vacuum is investigated. We show that the collective effects such as collective damping, dipole-dipole interaction and the cross coupling between orthogonal dipoles, play a crucial role in the process of creation of entanglement. In particular, the additional cross coupling enhances the production of entanglement. For the specific initial states we find that the effect of delayed sudden birth of entanglement, recently invented by Ficek and Tana? [Ficek, R. Tana?, Phys. Rev. A 77 (2008) 054301] in the case of two-level atoms, can also be observed in the system. When the initial state is entangled, the process of spontaneous emission causes destruction of correlations and its disentanglement. We show that the robustness of initial entanglement against the noise can be changed by local operations performed on the state.     

Entangled Subspaces for Two Coupled Qubits in a Normal Environment

By investigating the effect of environmental perturbations on two initially coupled qubits, we find that the interactions between the qubits and between the qubits and the environment are not only the source of decoherence, but also the power of avoiding disentanglement. It is shown that there are the entangled subspaces for four kinds of different coupling ways between the qubits, in which the qubits preserve entanglement all the time. Thus, any new coherent source does not be introduced to preserve entanglement in the entangled subspaces.     

内禀退相干下海森伯XY模型中的热纠缠性质及其相干调控

通过求解系统的Milburn方程,研究了内禀退相干下两比特海森伯XY模型中的热纠缠性质. 讨论了非均匀磁场、系统初始纠缠度、 两比特的相对相位对系统热纠缠的调控作用.结果表明:在系统一定的初始条件下, 磁场的引入能够大大提高两比特间的热纠缠 程度;在固有退相干存在的情况下,系统热纠缠强烈依赖于两个自旋比特的初始态, 通过控制两自旋比特的相对相位和振幅,可以 获得系统的稳定热纠缠.结果还表明:在没有外界磁场时,发现Bell正交态是系统的"暗态", 它的热纠缠度在演化过程中不受系 统内禀退相干的影响.     

Sudden birth versus sudden death of entanglement for the extended Werner-like state in a dissipative environment

In this paper, we investigate the dynamical behaviour of entanglement in terms of concurrence in a bipartite system subjected to an external magnetic field under the action of dissipative environments in the extended Werner-like initial state. The interesting phenomenon of entanglement sudden death as well as sudden birth appears during the evolution process. We analyse in detail the effect of the purity of the initial entangled state of two qubits via Heisenberg XY interaction on the apparition time of entanglement sudden death and entanglement sudden birth. Furthermore, the conditions on the conversion of entanglement sudden death and entanglement sudden birth can be generalized when the initial entangled state is not pure. In particular, a critical purity of the initial mixed entangled state exists, above which entanglement sudden birth vanishes while entanglement sudden death appears. It is also noticed that stable entanglement, which is independent of different initial states of the qubits (pure or mixed state), occurs even in the presence of decoherence. These results arising from the combination of the extended Werner-like initial state and dissipative environments suggest an approach to control and enhance the entanglement even after purity induced sudden birth, death and revival.     

Quantum correlations in non-Markovian environments

We have studied the analytical Markovian and non-Markovian dynamics of quantum correlations, such as entanglement, quantum discord and Bell nonlocalities for three noisy qubits. Quantum correlation as measured by quantum discord is found to be immune to death contrary to entanglement and Bell nonlocality for initial GHZ- or W-type mixed states.     

Λ型三能级原子与数态单模光场互作用系统的纠缠特性

通过计算场的量子力学熵讨论了Λ型三能级原子与数态单模光场互作用系统的纠缠和退纠缠时间演化规律.结果表明，系统的纠缠呈现周期性，最大纠缠度依赖于原子初态、初始场光 子数及场失谐量与耦合系数之比.一周期内出现最大纠缠和退纠缠的次数与初始场光子数无 关.近简并下能级初始相对位相影响场熵演化，而激发态和基态之间的初始相对位相对场熵 演化无影响.     

Estimation of the disorder degree of the classical static noise using three entangled qubits as quantum probes

The paper investigates the estimation of the disorder degree of the classical static noise using three entangled qubits as quantum probes together with the tools of local quantum estimation theory. Three probing schemes namely common environment (CE), independent environments (IEs) and mixed environments (MEs) are investigated and the optimal initial state preparation of the probes taken as a partially depolarized GHZ state. The results show that: (i) the IEs probing scheme allows one to achieve better estimation precision compared to both MEs and CE schemes respectively; (ii) the higher is the initial amount of entanglement of the probes, the larger is the estimation precision, independently of the scheme considered; (iii) both small and large values of the disorder parameter are uniformly estimable at the optimal interaction time; (iv) entangled qubits probes quickly encode information about the disorder parameter than single-qubit probe; (v) there is an improvement in the estimation of the disorder parameter when entangled probes interacting either in IEs or MEs are used instead of a single probe, demonstrating that a single probe is not sufficient to optimally estimate the disorder parameter of the static noise. On the other hand, we have also investigated the relationship between the residual amount of entanglement present in the probes at the optimal interaction time and the estimation precision of the disorder parameter. We show that the higher the residual amount of entanglement at the optimal interaction time, the smaller the estimation precision.     

Concurrence evolution of two qubits coupled with one-mode cavity separately

The concurrence evolution of two qubits coupled with one-mode cavity separately is investigated exactly without adopting the rotating-wave approximation. The results show that for the resonant case, the concurrence evolution behaviour of the system is similar to that of the Markovian case when the coupling strength is weak, while the concurrence vanishes in a finite time and might revive fractional initial entanglement before it permanently vanishes when the coupling strength is strong. And for the detuning case, the entanglement could periodically recover after complete disentanglement. These results are quite different from those of system subjected to Jaynes--Cummings model.     

Robust and fragile Werner states in the collective dephasing

We investigate the concurrence and Bell violation of the standard Werner state or Werner-like states in the presence of collective dephasing. It is shown that the standard Werner state and certain kinds of Werner-like states are robust against the collective dephasing, and some kinds of Werner-like states is fragile and becomes completely disentangled in a finite-time. The threshold time of complete disentanglement of the fragile Werner-like states is given. The influence of external driving field on the finite-time disentanglement of the standard Werner state or Werner-like states is discussed. Furthermore, we present a simple method to control the stationary state entanglement and Bell violation of two qubits. Finally, we show that the theoretical calculations of fidelity based on the initial Werner state assumption well agree with previous experimental results.     

Quantum Information Splitting of an Arbitrary Multi-qubit GHZ-type State by Using a Four-qubit Cluster State

A new application of the four-qubit cluster state is investigated for quantum information splitting (QIS) of an arbitrary N-qubit GHZ-type state among three parties. We demonstrate that a four-qubit cluster state can be used to realize the deterministic QIS of an arbitrary N-qubit GHZ-type state by introducing N−1 ancillary qubits and performing N−1 controlled-NOT operations. The presented protocols considered here are secure against certain eavesdropping attacks.     

Entanglement Evolution of a Two-Qubit System beyond Rotating-Wave Approximation

Two noninteracting qubits, initially entangled in Bell states, are coupled to a one-mode cavity and evolve under its influence. The entanglement evolution of the two qubits is investigated beyond the rotating-wave approximation. It is shown that the counter-rotating wave terms have a great influence on the disentanglement behavior.     

Quantum Correlation and Coherence in Dissipative Two SC-Qubit Systems Interacting with a Coherent SC-Cavity

An analytical solution of the master equation is obtained for a coherent SC-cavity interacts with two SC-qubits. With this solution, the effect of an intrinsic decoherence on the growth of coherence loss (mixture) and the entanglement degradation is shown. Due to the intrinsic decoherence, the oscillatory behavior of the qubit-inversion is deteriorated, and its amplitude decreases. Where its stationary state refers to that the energy is stored more in the SC-qubits. The growth of the mixture is investigated for the entire system and its sub-systems of the SC-cavity and two qubits. The entanglement is studied for two different partitions, between the SC-cavity and the two qubits as well as between the two qubits. It is found that the generation of the entanglement and mixture and their stationary values depend on the initial coherence intensity and the intrinsic decoherence rate. The stationary entanglement and mixture, and the phenomena of sudden appearance and disappearance of the entanglement could be controlled by adjusting the intrinsic noise rate and the initial coherence intensity.