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arXiv:0810.5739 · Quantum Information and Computation

Universality of sudden death of entanglement

F. F. Fanchini, Paulo E. M. F. Mendonça, Reginaldo de Jesus Napolitano

Published Jul 1, 2011• 5 citations
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Abstract

We present a constructive argument to demonstrate the universality of the sudden death of entanglement in the case of two non-interacting qubits, each of which generically coupled to independent Markovian environments at zero temperature. Conditions for the occurrence of the abrupt disappearance of entanglement are determined and, most importantly, rigourously shown to be \emph{almost} always satisfied: Dynamical models for which the sudden death of entanglement does not occur are seen to form a highly idealized zero-measure subset within the set of all possible quantum dynamics.

DOI
10.26421/qic11.7-8-9

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