Characterizing Entanglement in Combinations of Bell States through Superposition and Mixing: An Increase in Entanglement on Introducing Depolarizing, Phase Damping, and Amplitude Damping Noise
Nishant Chaudhari, Jean-François Van Huele
quant-phSubmitted Aug 18, 2026• Announced Aug 19, 2026• 0 citations
We systematically characterize quantum entanglement in all sixteen combinations of two-qubit Bell states across three operational regimes: pure superposition, noiseless mixing, and asymmetric mixing of one noisy and one pure Bell state. For pure superpositions, we calculate the von Neumann entropy and show that entanglement depends critically on the relative phase phi between superposed states. For mixed states, we use concurrence C under three physically motivated decoherence channels. The Depolarizing (DP) and Phase Damping (PD) channels are modeled as global, collective operations on the two-qubit Hilbert space, while Amplitude Damping (AD) is treated as independent local decay on each qubit, reflecting the asymmetric, energy-dissipating nature of spontaneous emission. A central and counterintuitive result is that increasing noise can raise concurrence in specific parameter regimes across all three channels. We further map the boundary between mathematical entanglement (C > 0) and operational quantum non-locality using the Horodecki criterion, finding this boundary to be strongly channel-dependent. Under Phase Damping, the Bell-local entanglement regime vanishes entirely for identical and same-bases mixtures, meaning any surviving entanglement guarantees a CHSH violation. Under Depolarizing noise, a large Bell-local region requires mixing probability r > 1/sqrt(2) to recover non-locality at maximum noise. For Amplitude Damping, certain mixtures exhibit a non-monotonic Horodecki parameter M(T): concurrence decreases monotonically with noise, yet the capacity for CHSH violation is lost at intermediate noise levels and restored at high noise, as maximal damping repurifies the noisy branch. These results provide a unified analytical reference for entanglement and non-locality management across Bell-state combinations and decoherence channels relevant to NISQ architectures.
We systematically characterize quantum entanglement in all sixteen combinations of two-qubit Bell states across three operational regimes: pure superposition, noiseless mixing, and asymmetric mixing of one noisy and one pure Bell state. For pure superpositions, we calculate the von Neumann entropy and show that entanglement depends critically on the relative phase phi between superposed states. For mixed states, we use concurrence C under three physically motivated decoherence channels. The Depolarizing (DP) and Phase Damping (PD) channels are modeled as global, collective operations on the two-qubit Hilbert space, while Amplitude Damping (AD) is treated as independent local decay on each qubit, reflecting the asymmetric, energy-dissipating nature of spontaneous emission. A central and counterintuitive result is that increasing noise can raise concurrence in specific parameter regimes across all three channels. We further map the boundary between mathematical entanglement (C > 0) and operational quantum non-locality using the Horodecki criterion, finding this boundary to be strongly channel-dependent. Under Phase Damping, the Bell-local entanglement regime vanishes entirely for identical and same-bases mixtures, meaning any surviving entanglement guarantees a CHSH violation. Under Depolarizing noise, a large Bell-local region requires mixing probability r > 1/sqrt(2) to recover non-locality at maximum noise. For Amplitude Damping, certain mixtures exhibit a non-monotonic Horodecki parameter M(T): concurrence decreases monotonically with noise, yet the capacity for CHSH violation is lost at intermediate noise levels and restored at high noise, as maximal damping repurifies the noisy branch. These results provide a unified analytical reference for entanglement and non-locality management across Bell-state combinations and decoherence channels relevant to NISQ architectures.
The advent of noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices has not only opened up new possibilities to studying quantum computational benefits, but it has also presented new challenges associated with noise and short coherence times. Entanglement is one of the inherent resources that can be used to perform quantum computation and implement the performance and reliability of quantum algorithms. This paper looks at entanglement dynamics in NISQ machines subjected to natural noises. The study focuses on the problem of examining the role of various noise channels in the creation, dynamics, and decay of the entanglement during quantum operations, such as depolarizing, amplitude damping, and phase damping. The study is based on theoretical modeling and numerical simulations of multi-qubit quantum circuits to determine the stability of entangled states with respect to circuit depth and intensity of noise. Concurrence and von Neumann entropy are examples of entanglement measures that are used to characterize correlations between qubits as well as to trace the dynamics of these correlations across computational interactions. The results show that noise has major impacts on entanglement distribution, which tends to cause rapid decays in highly entangled states with increase in circuit complexity. The findings, however, also show that there are some circuit architectures and error-mitigation schemes that can somewhat sustain entanglement with moderate levels of noise. The paper also emphasizes the relevance of minimalizing sequence of gates, and reduced circuit depth in an effort to preserve useful entanglement in present-day quantum hardware. These observations help in understanding the behaviour of quantum correlations better in real world quantum devices and provide a way of developing more resilient quantum algorithms that would work on NISQ systems. In general, the article offers a systematic view on entanglement behavior in disordered quantum systems and highlights its value in the development of quantum computing applications in the near term.
Quantum correlations between two or more different degrees of freedom of the same particle are sometimes referred to as intraparticle entanglement. In this work, we study these intraparticle correlations between two different degrees of freedom under various decoherence channels, viz. amplitude damping, depolarizing, and phase damping channels. We mainly focus on the amplitude-damping channel for which we obtain an exact analytical expression for the concurrence of an arbitrary initial pure state. In this channel, we observe the unique feature of entanglement arising from a separable initial state. We show that this channel allows for a revival of entanglement with an increasing damping parameter, including from a zero value of the concurrence. We also consider the amplitude-damping channel for interparticle entanglement and show that it does not display any of the above-mentioned interesting features. Further, for comparable parameters, the decay of entanglement in the interparticle system is much greater than in the intraparticle system, which we also find to be true for the phase damping and depolarizing channels. Thus, intraparticle entanglement subjected to damping is much more robust than interparticle entanglement.
Coherence-to-entanglement conversion transforms single-qubit superposition into a practical two-qubit resource, but noise limits this process in near-term quantum hardware. We derive closed-form benchmarks for a minimal CNOT primitive in which a coherent qubit and an incoherent ancilla generate entanglement before undergoing phase damping, global depolarizing, amplitude damping, or independent local depolarizing noise. Using the ℓ1-norm of coherence and negativity, we prove the noiseless law N0=Cℓ1/2, valid for arbitrary mixed inputs, and obtain exact negativities, survival fractions, and entanglement-sudden-death thresholds. For all X-state-preserving channels, a master relation shows that entanglement loss results from the competition between coherence suppression and partial-transpose spectral shifts. Phase damping yields η=1−p without finite-noise sudden death; global depolarization gives coherence-dependent sudden death; amplitude damping adds an excited-population penalty and sudden death only for θ>π/4; while local depolarization is most destructive at equal depolarizing strength. The initial survival slopes, −1, −3/2, −2, and −3, act as compact noise fingerprints. Since concurrence satisfies C=2N for the generated states, all robustness rankings remain unchanged. Mapping channel parameters to T1, Tφ, and average gate fidelity connects the theory to hardware-level performance.
Abstract We investigate the Bell nonlocality dynamics of bipartite quantum systems under three distinct types of global decoherence environments: global amplitude damping noise, globally correlated classical noise, and global phase-damping noise. By combining numerical optimization techniques over Bell inequalities—specifically the Clauser–Horne–Shimony–Holt inequality—and describing the global noise-evolution process of a two-qubit system with the Kraus operator formalism, we systematically characterize the evolution of quantum nonlocality in a two-qubit system. Our results demonstrate that, under a global amplitude damping noise environment, precise temporal modulation of the amplitude damping channel enables the composite system to retain maximal Bell-nonlocal correlations in its final state. In contrast, globally correlated classical noise fields induce exponential suppression of Bell inequality violations. Remarkably, the systems subjected to global phase-damping noise exhibit pronounced robustness to nonlocality. These findings highlight the critical role of global noise in nonlocality dynamics.
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