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Physica Scripta

Entanglement of two distant qubits driven by thermal environments

Víctor Montenegro, Vitalie Eremeev, Miguel Orszag

Published Feb 1, 2012• 6 citations
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Abstract

A model of entanglement generation of two initially disentangled qubits, each coupled to a separate cavity with the cavities connected by a fiber, is considered. The creation and evolution of the atomic entanglement are studied in the framework of the microscopic master equation capable of describing an open quantum system. The cavities and fiber are coupled to their own thermal environment. In these conditions, we compute the concurrence as a measure of the atomic entanglement and study the contribution of the environments at finite temperature to the dynamics of entanglement. As a result, one finds interesting effects where the thermal baths stimulate the generation of the entanglement in a given range of temperatures and the effect could be seen especially at some stage of the entanglement evolution. The range of temperatures at which entanglement increases is limited by some optimal values, depending on the physical characteristics of the system, such as operating cavity/fiber frequencies, atom–field detuning and couplings, and loss rates.

DOI
10.1088/0031-8949/2012/t147/014022

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We present a model to generate atomic entanglement with atoms located at distant cavities. It consists of two cavities connected by an optical fibre, where each cavity interacts with a single two-level atom. For certain atom–cavity and cavity–fibre coupling parameters, we find a wide time plateau for the concurrence between the atoms. An increase of the atom–cavity detuning gives rise to a linear increase of the width of the plateau, but at the same time, when losses are included in the model, it also decreases the value of the concurrence and increases the response time to reach the maximum.
We study entanglement generated between a qubit and a super-ohmic bosonic bath due to their joint evolution which leads to pure dephasing of the qubit. We tune the parameters of the interaction, so that the decoherence is quantitatively independent of the number of bosonic modes taken into account (and corresponds to realistic decoherence seen in small excitonic quantum dots coupled to an environment of phonons) and investigate, how the entanglement generated depends on the size of the environment. A second parameter of interest is the mixedness of the initial state of the environment which is controlled by temperature. We show analytically that for a pure initial state of the environment (zero temperature here), entanglement does not depend on environment size. At finite temperatures (mixed initial state of the environment), the generated entanglement decreases with the increase of environment size. This effect is stronger for larger temperatures, when the environment is initially more mixed, but in the limit of an infinitely large environment, no entanglement is created at any finite temperature.
We examine the entanglement creation between two mutually independent two-level atoms immersed in a thermal bath of quantum scalar fields in the presence of a perfectly reflecting plane boundary. With the help of the master equation that describes the evolution in time of the atom subsystem obtained, in the weak-coupling limit, by tracing over environment (scalar fields) degrees of freedom, we find that the presence of the boundary may play a significant role in the entanglement creation in some circumstances and the new parameter, the distance of the atoms from the boundary, besides the bath temperature and the separation between the atoms, gives us more freedom in manipulating entanglement generation. Remarkably, the final remaining entanglement in the equilibrium state is independent of the presence of the boundary.