Quantum Discord Behaviors in Two Qubits Spin Squeezing Model with Intrinsic Decoherence

By taking into account the intrinsic decoherence and the external magnetic field, quantum discord(QD) behaviors in two-qubit spin squeezing model are investigated in detail. It is found that the magnitude of quantum discord is strongly dependent on the initial states, the squeezing interaction μ, the magnetic field Ω and the purity r of initial states. With t → ∞, one can obtain the steady quantum discord (SQD) value, the environmental decoherence cannot entirely destroy the quantum correlation. Based on the analysis of the SQD, the conditions about the existence of SQD are obtained with different initial states. Varying the parameters μ, Ω and r not only can weaken the effects of decoherence but also can improve the magnitude of QD and SQD. The effects of the parameters μ and Ω on the QD and SQD display so different and complicated features that one cannot get an uniform law about them, while the values of QD and SQD are improved with increasing r. Properly tuning the parameters μ, Ω and r, one can obtain a larger value of QD or SQD.     

Various Correlations in a Two-Qubit Heisenberg XXZ Spin System Both in Thermal Equilibrium and Under the Intrinsic Decoherence

In this paper we discuss various correlations measured by the concurrence (C), classical correlation (CC), quantum discord (QD), and geometric measure of discord (GMD) in a two-qubit Heisenberg XXZ spin system in the presence of external magnetic field and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) anisotropic antisymmetric interaction. Based on the analytically derived expressions for the correlations for the cases of thermal equilibrium and the inclusion of intrinsic decoherence, we discuss and compare the effects of various system parameters on the correlations in both cases. We also found that there is not a definite ordering of these quantities in thermal equilibrium, whereas there is a descending order of the CC, C, GMD and QD under the intrinsic decoherence with a nonnull B when the initial state is $|\varPsi_{2}(0) \rangle = \frac{1}{\sqrt{2}} (|00 \rangle + |11 \rangle)$ .     

Sudden Change of Quantum Discord in Qutrit-Qutrit System Under Depolarising Noise

The effects of decoherence on quantum discord of two-qutrit system under the influence of multilocal, collective and global depolarising noises are investigated. Sudden change of quantum discord with the decoherence parameter and the initial state parameter occurs for the qutrits being coupled to multilocal or global depolarising noises. On the other hand, decoherence cannot induce sudden change of quantum discord when the system is collectively coupled to the depolarising noise. In addition, the local unitary transformation can alter the region in which the phenomenon of sudden change exists.     

Entanglement and Measurement-Induced Disturbance About Two-Qubit Heisenberg XYZ Model

By taking into account the nonuniform magnetic field, quantum correlation behaviors measured by concurrence and measurement-induced disturbance (MID) about a two-qubit anisotropic Heisenberg XYZ model are investigated in detail. We mainly concentrate on the differences between the entanglement and MID with the changes of different self and external control parameters. It is found that the ground state of entanglement exists the revival phenomenon, while this revival phenomenon is not included in MID. This difference is also appeared in the case of the finite temperature. Moreover, we give out the reason why the ground state entanglement and MID can behave very differently, which the former occurs the revival phenomenon whereas the latter does not. Through studying the effects about different parameters on C and MID, it presents that their magnitudes can be evidently enhanced by properly tuning B, b or adjusting the temperature. It also shows the situation which the entanglement is symmetrical with J _z while MID is monotonically decreased from one constant value.     

Quantum discord dynamics of two-qubit system in a quantum spin environment

We study the dynamics of quantum discord of two-qubit system in a quantum spin environment at finite temperature in the thermodynamics limit. Special attention is paid to the difference between the entanglement and quantum discord when considering the influences of the environment temperature and the initial system states. We show that in the same range of the physical parameters, when the system states behave no entanglement or entanglement sudden death, the quantum discord keeps nonzero. So the quantum discord is more robust than entanglement under this decoherence environment. Furthermore, we also illustrate that we can tune the parameters related to the system and the environment to suppress the decay of quantum discord.     

Dynamics of super-quantum discord and direct control with weak measurement in open quantum system

Super-quantum discord(SQD) with weak measurement is regarded as a kind of quantum correlation in quantum information processing. We compare and analyze the dynamical evolutions of SQD, quantum discord(QD), and quantum entanglement(QE) between two qubits in the correlated dephasing environmental model. The results indicate that(i) owing to the much smaller influence of weak measurement on the coherence of the system than that of von Neumann projection measurement, SQD with weak measurement is larger than QD, and(ii) dynamical evolution of QD or QE monotonically goes to zero with time, while SQD monotonically tends to a stable value and a freezing phenomenon occurs. The stable value after freezing mainly depends on the measurement strength and the purity of the initial quantum state.     

Protection of Quantum Correlation Through the Quantum Erasing Effect

By taking into account the quantum erasing effect(QEE), the quantum discord (QD) behavior of a two-qubit system with different initial states are investigated in detail. We find that the quantum correlation can be saved under a scheme of two spatially separated atoms, each located in a leaky cavity through the quantum erasing method. It is shown that QEE can weaken the effects of decoherence, and preserve the maximum information of the coherent item. No matter whether the two atoms are in the mixted or pure state, one can robusty save their initial quantum correlation even the number of erasing events is finite. If one limit the erasing events N → ∞, the QEE can be used to protect the initial quantum correlation independently of the state in which it is stored, the values of QD is always nearly equal to the initial QD values, and it is nearly independent of the decoherence, which imply us more encourage strategy for protecting the quantum correlation properties in some quantum systems.     

Decoherence Effect in An Anisotropic Two-Qubit Heisenberg XYZ Model with Inhomogeneous Magnetic Field

Taking the decoherence effect into account, the entanglement evolution of a two-qubit anisotropic Heisenberg XYZ chain in the presence of inhomogeneous magnetic field is investigated. The time evolution of concurrence is studied for the initial state cos θ｜01） ＋ sin θ｜10） at zero temperature. The influences of inhomogeneous magnetic field, anisotropic parameter and decoherence on entanglement dynamic are addressed in detail, and a concurrence formula of the steady state is found. It is shown that the entanglement sudden death （ESD） and entanglement sudden birth （ESB） appear with the decoherence effect, and the stable concurrence depends on the uniform magnetic field B, anisotropic parameter △ and environment coupling strength γ, which is independent of different initial states and nonuniform magnetic field b.     

Enlarged omnidirectional photonic gap in one dimensional ternary plasma photonic crystals that contain metamaterials

We study the dynamics of multipartite quantum correlations measured by the lower bound of concurrence and quantum discord in a three-qubit system coupled to an XY spin chain. For the initial pure GHZ and W state, we find the lower bound of entanglement is more robust than the quantum discord against the decoherence induced by the spin environment. But for the Werner state, the sudden death of discord is not observed even in the presence of entanglement sudden death. By comparing the evolutions for the GHZ and W states, we show that the W state preserves more quantum correlations than the GHZ state. In addition, we put research emphasis on the relation between the dynamics of multipartite quantum correlations and the quantum phase transition of the spin environment.     

Enhancement of stationary state quantum discord in Tavis-Cummings model by nonlinear Kerr-like medium

We investigate the influence of nonlinear Kerr-like medium and dipole-dipole interaction on the dynamics of quantum discord in Tavis-Cummings model with phase decoherence. We show that in the resonance case (i) atom-field quantum discord rapidly decays with phase decoherence and doesn't exist the stationary state quantum discord, but the stationary state quantum discord appears if we choose the suitable values of Kerr coefficient χ and dipole-dipole interaction Ω, (ii) the quantum discord of two atoms survives in the stationary state and the amount of stationary state quantum discord could be improved by adjusting the values of χ and Ω. In the non-resonance case, the arbitrary bipartite quantum discord of the system could not be completely destroyed by the phase decoherence and can be improved by applying nonlinear Kerr-like medium and dipole-dipole interaction.     

Quantum Correlation Properties Between Two Spatially Separated Atoms in Free Space Reinforced by Incoherent Pumping

Quantum correlation dynamics between two identical and spatially separated atoms in free space is investigated by the use of concurrence C and quantum discord (QD). The behaviors of QD differs in many unexpected ways from the entanglement in this system. Firstly, it shows the situations which the concurrence and QD can behave very differently with a “sudden birth” phenomenon of the former but not of the latter, and QD is only oscillating decays with time and the interqubit distance. We also verify the cases which QD is always greater than the concurrence and the region where the concurrence is vanished but with nonzero values for QD. Meanwhile an unexpected situation which the concurrence is greater than QD under the initial state |eg〉 is analyzed. It is revealed that the quantum correlation based only on QD is expected to be more robust than entanglement which is not suitable for all the initial states under the decoherence environment. Then, by introducing the incoherent pumping, we also study the different properties of the steady-state entanglement and QD about this atomic subsystem. It is shown that the incoherent pumping can overcome the decay of the atoms and the influences about the interqubit distance r ₁₂/λ on the steady-state correlation can make the decay of the concurrence obviously quicker than QD, the life of the steady-state QD is evidently larger than the steady-state entanglement.     

Quantum Correlation in Circuit QED Under Various Dissipative Modes

Dynamical evolutions of quantum correlations in circuit quantum electrodynamics (circuit-QED) are investigated under various dissipative modes. The influences of photon number, coupling strength, detuning and relative phase angle on quantum entanglement and quantum discord are compared as well. The results show that quantum discord may be less robust to decoherence than quantum entanglement since the death and revival also appears. Under certain dissipative mode, the decoherence subspace can be formed in circuit-QED due to the cooperative action of vacuum field. Whether a decoherence subspace can be formed not only depends on the form of quantum system but also relates closely to the dissipative mode of environment. One can manipulate decoherence through manipulating the correlation between environments, but the effect depends on the choice of initial quantum states and dissipative modes. Furthermore, we find that proper relative phase of initial quantum state provides one means of suppressing decoherence.     

Dissipative Dynamics of Quantum Discord of Two Strongly Driven Qubits

The exact dynamics of quantum discord (QD) of two strongly driven qubits, which are initially prepared in the X-type quantum states and inserted in two independent dissipative cavities or in a common dissipative cavity, are studied. The results indicate that both in the two cases, the evolution of QD is independent of the initial cavity state. For the two independent dissipative cavities, it is found that the phenomenon of sudden transition between classical and quantum decoherence exists and the transition time can be greatly delayed by suitably choosing the initial state parameter of the two qubits, the cavity mode-driving field detunning and the decay rate of the cavity. For the common dissipative cavity, it is shown that for some initial states of the two qubits, the QD can increase for a finite time at first, and then it decreases to a steady value, while for some other initial states, the QD can increase monotonously or with oscillation till a stable value is reached. Moreover, the creation of QD for the two qubits in a common cavity is discussed.     

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.     

Quantum Measurement of Two-Qubit System in Damping Noise Environment

It is known that the inevitable interaction of the entangled qubits with their environments may result in the degradation of quantum correlation.We study the decoherence of two remote qubits under general local single-and two-sided amplitude-damping channel(ADC).By using concurrence,quantum discord and Clauser-Horne-ShimonyHolt(CHSH)inequality,we find that the relation between the residual quantum correlations and the initial ones are different.Recently,Wang et al.[Int.J.Theor.Phys.54(2015)5]showed that there exist a set of partially entangled states that are more robust than maximally entangled states in terms of the residual quantum correlation measured by concurrence,fully entangled fraction and quantum discord,respectively.Here we find that both in single-and two-sided ADC,only the evolution of CHSH inequality with the initial parameter is proportional to that of the initial nonlocality.That means the initial state with maximally nonlocality will retain its role in the evolution.It implies that the evolution of nonlocality may reveal the characteristics of quantum state better.Furthermore,we discuss the evolutions of the three different quantum measurements with the initial parameter under generalized amplitude damping channel(GADC)and find that they are all proportional to that of the initial state.     

Investigations on quantum correlation of coupled qubits in squeezed vacuum reservoir

In this paper, we investigate the quantum correlation of coupled qubits which are initially in maximally entangled mixed states in squeezed vacuum reservoir. We compare and analyse the effects of squeezed parameters on quantum discord and quantum concurrence. The results show that in squeezed vacuum reservoir, the quantum discord and quantum concurrence perform completely opposite behaviors to the change of squeezed parameters. Quantum discord survives longer with the increase of squeezed amplitude parameter, but entanglement death turns faster on the contrary. The results also indicate that the classical correlation of the system is smaller than quantum discord in vacuum reservoir, while it is bigger than quantum discord in squeezed vacuum reservoir. The quantum discord and classical correlation are more robust than quantum concurrence in the two reservoir environments, which indicates that the entanglement actually is easily affected by decoherence and quantum discord has stronger ability to avoid decoherence in squeezed vacuum reservoir.     

Classical correlation, quantum discord and entanglement for two-qubit system subject to heat bath

Classical correlation (CC), quantum discord (QD) and entanglement (QE) of two qubits in one-side and two-side decoherence models are investigated. The sudden change of quantum discord (DSC) as well as classical correlation and sudden death of entanglement (ESD) are found. It is proved that QE (QD) presents no sudden change (sudden death). We prove that, for nonzero occupation number of the reservoir, QE must suffer sudden death; For zero occupation number and X-form initial states, we obtain the states which are robust and the states which experience sudden death. It is verified that if DSC and ESD occur under one-side decoherence, then it must appear in the two-side decoherence, while the reverse does not hold. We obtain the boundaries of CC-QE plane and QD-QE plane, and give the state possessing maximal amount of CC (QD) for a given amount of QE.     

Classical Correlation and Quantum Discord in a Two Qubit System Under Dissipation Environments

We study the dynamics of classical correlation and quantum discord of two-qubit system interacted with the thermal reservoir. Special attention is paid to the difference between the entanglement and quantum discord when considering the influences of the nonzero mean photon number and quantum fluctuation of the vacuum. It is shown that in the same range of the physical parameters, the factors leading to the entanglement sudden death only accelerates the decay of quantum discord, and the quantum discord can last for an infinite period when the entanglement disappears. So the quantum discord is more robust than entanglement under this decoherence environment, and quantum discord is a more general measure of quantum correlation than entanglement.     

Investigations into quantum correlation of coupled qubits in a squeezed vacuum reservoir

In this paper,we investigate the quantum correlation of coupled qubits which are initially in maximally entangled mixed states in a squeezed vacuum reservoir.We compare and analyze the effects of squeezed parameters on quantum discord and quantum concurrence.The results show that in a squeezed vacuum reservoir,the quantum discord and quantum concurrence perform with completely opposite behaviors with the change of squeezed parameters.Quantum discord survives longer with the increase of squeezed amplitude parameter,but entanglement death is faster on the contrary.The results also indicate that the classical correlation of the system is smaller than quantum discord in a vacuum reservoir,while it is bigger than quantum discord in a squeezed vacuum reservoir.The quantum discord and classical correlation are more robust than quantum concurrence in the two reservoir environments,which indicates that the entanglement actually is easily affected by decoherence and quantum discord has a stronger ability to avoid decoherence in a squeezed vacuum reservoir.     

Dynamics of quantum discord for two correlated qubits in two independent reservoirs at finite temperature

We investigate dynamics of quantum discord (QD) for two initially-correlated qubits in two independent Ohmic reservoirs at finite temperature. It is indicated that the QD changes from a constant regime to a decaying regime when the two qubits are initially prepared in X-type quantum states. In the QD constant regime, the initial QD can be preserved despite decoherence in the system. It is found that temperature difference between two reservoirs significantly affects the preservation duration (PD) of the initial QD. We show that it is possible to enhance the preservation duration by properly choosing system parameters of the two qubits and reservoir parameters. Physically, it is found that the PD of the QD can reflect the temperature inhomogeneity of the non-equilibrium system which consists of the two qubits and their reservoirs.