Entanglement and non-Markovianity of a multi-level atom decaying in a cavity

We present a paradigmatic method for exactly studying non-Markovian dynamics of a multi-level V-type atom interacting with a zero-temperature bosonic bath. Special attention is paid to the entanglement evolution and the dynamical nonMarkovianity of a three-level V-type atom. We find that the entanglement negativity decays faster and non-Markovianity is smaller in the resonance regions than those in the non-resonance regions. More importantly, the quantum interference between the dynamical non-Markovianities induced by different transition channels is manifested, and the frequency domains for constructive and destructive interferences are found.     

A study of color centers in MgO using a hierarchical model

Tripartite entanglement dynamics is studied in terms of a generalized negativity for two kinds of mixed states in the Tavis-Cummings model with intrinsic decoherence, where the arithmetic and geometric mean negativities, which have been widely used to three qubits in recent literature, are included for consistency and comparison. Analytical and numerical simulations for various states in the model without and with intrinsic decoherence as well as without rotating-wave approximation show that the dynamical correlations between those negativities are dominantly positive when the field is initially prepared in the states with more than two photons. Such correlation between the arithmetic and geometric mean negativities is positive for a suitable state. The dependence of the steady-state entanglement on initial conditions demonstrates that the generalized negativity and the arithmetic mean negativity behave in a similar way. Moreover, a hierarchy of those indicators in entanglement dynamics and the steady-state entanglement is the same for various parameters in the model and initial states. Those are useful for tripartite entanglement and quantum information.     

Quantum Entanglement in a Structured Reservoir

We study the entanglement dynamics of two-level atoms interacting in independent structured non-Markovian reservoirs. The atoms are initially prepared in a pure W state and the reservoir is in the vacuum. We have shown that the degree of entanglement of the initial states, Markovian environments can control the time of the two qubit entanglement sudden death and the reservoirs’ entanglement sudden birth. We show the dependence of entanglement dynamics on the non-Markovianity. When the initial state of atoms is in a pure W state, the entanglement will decay asymptotically.     

Decoherence of genuine multipartite entanglement for local non-Markovian–Lorentzian reservoirs

We study decoherence effects on genuine multipartite entanglement for three and four qubits, spatially separated and subjected to local Lorentzian reservoirs. Employing recent techniques to compute genuine negativity for multipartite systems and an exact solvable model, we analyze the dynamics of genuine entanglement for different coupling bandwidths and detunings. We find that collapses and revivals can occur by varying these parameters for various multipartite quantum states.     

Negativity of Quantumness and Non-Markovianity in a Qubit Coupled to a Thermal Ising Spin Bath System

We propose a scheme to characterize the non-Markovian dynamics and quantify the non-Markovianity via the non-classicality measured by the negativity of quantumness. By considering a qubit in contact with a critical Ising spin bath and introducing an ancilla, we show that revivals of negativity of quantumness indicate the non-Markovian dynamics. Furthermore, a normalized measure of non-Markovianity based on the negativity of quantumness is introduced and the influences of bath criticality, bath temperature and bath size on the non-Markovianity are discussed. It is shown that, at the critical point, the decay of non-Markovianity versus the size of spin bath is the fastest and the non-Markovianity is exactly zero only in the thermodynamic limit. Besides, non-trivial behaviours of negativity of quantumness such as sudden change, double sudden changes and keeping constant are found for different relations between parameters of the initial state. Finally, how the non-classicality of the system is affected by a series of bang-bang pulses is also examined.     

Dynamics of Correlations in the Presences of Intrinsic Decoherence

The dynamics of a mixed spin system governed by XXZ model in additional to an intrinsic decoherence is investigated. The behavior of quantum correlation and the degree of entanglement between the two subsystems is quantified by using measurement-induced disturbance and the negativity, respectively. It is shown that, the phenomena of long-lived entanglement appears for larger values of intrinsic decoherence parameters. The degree of entanglement and quantum correlation depend on the dimensions of subsystems which are pass through the external field and the initial states setting. We show that the negativity for some initial classes is more robust than the measurement-induced disturbance, while for some other initial classes the quantum correlations are more robust than entanglement.     

Information entropy and entanglement of a superconducting qubit coupled to a cavity field with its spontaneous decay

The quantum entanglement between superconducting qubit and cavity field is described quantitatively in the presence of spontaneous decay. Depending on how how a system is quantum correlated with its environment, the entanglement dynamics between the qubit and cavity is evaluated and investigated during the dissipative process. The motivation based on recent experiments wherein the Cooper box can be used to probe the decay of the resonator superposition state due to environmental decoherence, we theoretically investigate the dynamics of entanglement measured by the negativity. Wehrl entropy and Wehrl phase distribution of a superconducting qubit coupled to a cavity field induced by a superconducting qubit-damping reservoir governed by a master equation.     

Effect of the time-dependent coupling on a superconducting qubit-field system under decoherence: Entanglement and Wehrl entropy

The dynamics of a superconducting (SC) qubit interacting with a field under decoherence with and without time-dependent coupling effect is analyzed. Quantum features like the collapse–revivals for the dynamics of population inversion, sudden birth and sudden death of entanglement, and statistical properties are investigated under the phase damping effect. Analytic results for certain parametric conditions are obtained. We analyze the influence of decoherence on the negativity and Wehrl entropy for different values of the physical parameters. We also explore an interesting relation between the SC-field entanglement and Wehrl entropy behavior during the time evolution. We show that the amount of SC-field entanglement can be enhanced as the field tends to be more classical. The studied model of SC-field system with the time-dependent coupling has high practical importance due to their experimental accessibility which may open new perspectives in different tasks of quantum formation processing.     

Analysis of mixed state entanglement with intrinsic decoherence

We analyze different entanglement measures for a mixed state two-level system in the presence of intrinsic decoherence. The information about entanglement is obtained by comparing the results for the atomic Wehrl entropy and negativity with the analytical results for a simple case. For the strong decoherence case we find that a similar and long-lived maximum Wehrl entropy and negativity between atom and field are shown. The results highlight the important roles played by both the decoherence parameter and the initial state setting in determining the evolution of the atomic Wehrl entropy and negativity.     

Effects of intrinsic decoherence on the entanglement of a two-qutrit 1D optical lattice chain with nonlinear coupling

We have investigated the intrinsic decoherence on the entanglement of a two-qutrit one-dimensional (1D) optical lattice chain with nonlinear coupling. As a measure of the entanglement, the negativity of the system is calculated. It is shown that the influence of intrinsic decoherence on the entanglement varies in different initial systems.     

Monogamy Relations for Squared Entanglement Negativity

This paper contains two main contents. In the first part, we provide two counterexamples of monogamy inequalities for the squared entanglement negativity: one three-qutrit pure state which violates of the He-Vidal monogamy conjecture, and one four-qubit pure state which disproves the squared-negativity-based Regula-Martino-Lee-Adesso-class strong monogamy conjecture. In the second part, we investigate the sharing of the entanglement negativity in a composite cavity-reservoir system using the corresponding multipartite entanglement scores, and then we find that there is no simple dominating relation between multipartite entanglement scores and the entanglement negativity in composite cavity-reservoir systems. As a by-product, we further validate that the entanglement of two cavity photons is a decreasing function of the evolution time, and the entanglement will suddenly disappear interacting with independent reservoirs.     

Non-Markovian Dynamics of Two-level System in a Composite Environment

We have studied the non-Markovian decoherence dynamics of the two-level system in a composite environment, which consists of a spin-star environment and a boson reservoir. By use of the measures presented recently, we theoretically study the non-Markovianity of the dynamics of the model.     

Erratum to “Effect of the time-dependent coupling on a superconducting qubit-field system under decoherence: Entanglement and Wehrl entropy” [Ann. Physics 361 (2015) 247–258]

The dynamics of a superconducting (SC) qubit interacting with a field under decoherence with and without time-dependent coupling effect is analyzed. Quantum features like the collapse–revivals for the dynamics of population inversion, sudden birth and sudden death of entanglement, and statistical properties are investigated under the phase damping effect. Analytic results for certain parametric conditions are obtained. We analyze the influence of decoherence on the negativity and Wehrl entropy for different values of the physical parameters. We also explore an interesting relation between the SC-field entanglement and Wehrl entropy behavior during the time evolution. We show that the amount of SC-field entanglement can be enhanced as the field tends to be more classical. The studied model of SC-field system with the time-dependent coupling has high practical importance due to their experimental accessibility which may open new perspectives in different tasks of quantum formation processing.     

Entanglement Evolution of Three-Qubit States under Local Decoherence

By using negativity as entanglement measure, we have investigated the effect of local decoherence from a non-Markovian environmenton the time evolution of entanglement of three-qubit states including the GHZ state, the W state, and the Werner state. From the results, we find that the entanglement dynamics depends not only on the coupling strengths but also on the specific states of concern. Specifically, the entanglement takes different behaviors under weak or strong coupling and it varies with the quantum states under study. The entanglement of the GHZ state and the Werner state can be destroyed completely by the local decoherence, while the entanglement of the W state can survive through the local decoherence partially.     

Non-Markovianity in the presence of multiple thermal environments via collision model

By means of the collision model, we study the non-Markovianity of an open quantum system S being coupled to M thermal reservoirs. In our model, each reservoir is modeled as a chain of ancillas whose intracollisions account for the occurrence of non-Markovian dynamics. We show that by incorporating M reservoir ancillas into the system, the non-Markovian dynamics of S can be embedded in the extended system that experiences a completely Markovian dynamics. The number M of involved reservoirs can thus be identified as the memory depth and determines the degree of the non-Markovianity. In the equilibrium case with identical temperatures for all the reservoirs, we show that though the non-Markovianity is proportional to M in the zero and relatively low temperature regimes, in the relatively high temperature regime such proportional relation holds only for the weak intracollisions of the reservoir ancillas. In the nonequilibrium situation, we examine the effect of temperature difference of reservoirs on the non-Markovianity. Focusing on a simple situation with two reservoirs, we observe that the nonzero temperature difference has a significant impact on the non-Markovianity.     

Dynamics of Quantum Entanglement in Reservoir with Memory Effects

The non-Markovian dynamics of quantum entanglement is studied by the Shabani-Lidar master equation when one of entangled quantum systems is coupled to a local reservoir with memory effects.The completely positive reduced dynamical map can be constructed in the Kraus representation.Quantum entanglement decays more slowly in the non-Markovian environment.The decoherence time for quantum entanglement can be markedly increased with the change of the memory kernel.It is found out that the entanglement sudden death between quantum systems and entanglement sudden birth between the system and reservoir occur at different instants.     

Fermionic-mode entanglement in non-Markovian environment

We evaluate the non-Markovian effects on the entanglement dynamics of a fermionic system interacting with two dissipative vacuum reservoirs. The exact solution of density matrix is derived by utilizing the Feynman–Vernon influence functional theory in the fermionic coherent state representation and the Grassmann calculus, which are valid for both the fermionic and bosonic baths, and their difference lies in the dependence of the parity of the initial states. The fermionic entanglement dynamics is presented by adding an additional restriction to the density matrix known as the superselection rules. Our analysis shows that the usual decoherence suppression schemes implemented in qubits systems can also be achieved for systems of identical fermions, and the initial state proves its importance in the evolution of fermionic entanglement. Our results provide a potential way to decoherence controlling of identical fermions.     

Disentanglement dynamics of interacting two qubits and two qutrits in an XY spin-chain environment with the Dzyaloshinsky-Moriya interaction

We investigate disentanglement dynamics of two coupled qubits and qutrits which interact uniformly to a general XY spin-chain environment with the Dzyaloshinsky-Moriya (DM) interaction. We obtained exact expression of the time evolution operator and analyzed the dynamical process of the decoherence factors. Through explicitly calculating the concurrence and the negativity, we examined disentanglement behaviors of two coupled central spins evolve from different initial pure states, which are found to be nontrivially different from those of the uncorrelated ones, in particular, the enhanced decay of the entanglement induced by quantum criticality of the surrounding environment may be broken by introducing self-Hamiltonian of the central spin system. Moreover, the DM interaction may have different influences on decay of the entanglement depending on the strength of the system-environment coupling, the anisotropy of the environmental spin chain and the intensity of the transverse magnetic field, as well as the explicit form of the initial states of the central spin system.     

Entanglement evolution of three-qubit mixed states in multipartite cavity—reservoir systems

We analyze the multipartite entanglement evolution of three-qubit mixed states composed of a GHZ state and a W state.For a composite system consisting of three cavities interacting with independent reservoirs,it is shown that the entanglement evolution is restricted by a set of monogamy relations.Furthermore,as quantified by the negativity,the entanglement dynamical property of the mixed entangled state of cavity photons is investigated.It is found that the three cavity photons can exhibit the phenomenon of entanglement sudden death(ESD).However,compared with the evolution of a generalized three-qubit GHZ state which has the equal initial entanglement,the ESD time of mixed states is later than that of the pure state.Finally,we discuss the entanglement distribution in the multipartite system,and point out the intrinsic relation between the ESD of cavity photons and the entanglement sudden birth of reservoirs.     

Non-Markovian Effects on Entanglement Dynamics of Three Qubits

We investigate entanglement dynamics of three independent qubits each locally interacting with a zero-temperature non-Markovian reservoir. The effects of environment's amount of non-Markovianity or parameters in initial states on the three-qubit entanglement dynamics are presented in detail. It is found that the entanglement of such a system revives after a finite dark period when a proper degree of non-Markovian is present. A deep comparison to that in two-qubit system is also made.