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arXiv:0709.2703 · Journal of Modern Optics

Disentanglement and decoherence in a pair of qutrits under dephasing noise

Gregg S. Jaeger, Kevin Ann

Published Nov 10, 2007• 24 citations
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Abstract

We relate disentanglement and decoherence rates in a pair of three-level atoms subjected to multi-local and collective pure dephasing noise acting in a preferred basis. The bipartite entanglement decay rate, as bounded from above by the negativity, is found to be greater than or equal to the dephasing-decoherence rates characterized by the decay of off-diagonal elements in the corresponding full density matrix describing the system or the reduced density matrix describing either qutrit, extending previous results for qubit pairs subject to such noise.

DOI
10.1080/09500340701639573

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