arXiv:1005.0687 · Physical Review A

Delayed birth of distillable entanglement in the evolution of bound entangled states

Łukasz Derkacz, Lech Jakóbczyk

Published Aug 11, 2010• 10 citations

Abstract

The dynamical creation of entanglement between three-level atoms coupled to the common vacuum is investigated. For the class of bound entangled initial states, we show that the dynamics of closely separated atoms generates stationary distillable entanglement of asymptotic states. We also find that the effect of delayed sudden birth of distillable entanglement occurs in the case of atoms separated by a distance comparable with the radiation wavelength.

DOI: 10.1103/physreva.82.022312

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