arXiv:1004.1450 · Physical Review Letters

Non-Markovian Entanglement Dynamics in the Presence of System-Bath Coherence

Arend G. Dijkstra, Yoshitaka Tanimura

Published Jun 21, 2010• 207 citations

Abstract

A complete treatment of the entanglement of two-level systems, which evolves through the contact with a thermal bath, must include the fact that the system and the bath are not fully separable. Therefore, quantum coherent superpositions of system and bath states, which are almost never fully included in theoretical models, are invariably present when an entangled state is prepared experimentally. We show their importance for the time evolution of the entanglement of two qubits coupled to independent baths. In addition, our treatment is able to handle slow and low-temperature thermal baths.

DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.104.250401

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