We investigate the entanglement evolution of two qubits that are initially in Werner state under the classical phase noise. We discuss the influence of mixture degree on disentanglement. It is showed that the more mixed the state, the shorter is the time of disentanglement.
One of the main obstacles toward building efficient quantum computing systems is decoherence, where the inevitable interaction between the qubits and the surrounding environment leads to a vanishing entanglement. We consider a system of two interacting asymmetric two-level atoms (qubits) in the presence of pure and correlated dephasing environments. We study the dynamics of entanglement while varying the interaction strength between the two qubits, their relative frequencies, and their coupling strength to the environment starting from different initial states of practical interest. The impact of the asymmetry of the two qubits, reflected in their different frequencies and coupling strengths to the environment, varies significantly depending on the initial state of the system and its degree of anisotropy. For an initial disentangled, or a Werner, state, as the difference between the frequencies increases, the entanglement decay rate increases, with more persistence at the higher degrees of anisotropy in the former state. However, for an initial anti-correlated Bell state, the entanglement decays more rapidly in the symmetric case compared with the asymmetric one. The difference in the coupling strengths of the two qubits to the pure (uncorrelated) dephasing environment leads to higher entanglement decay in the different initial state cases, though the rate varies depending on the degree of anisotropy and the initial state. Interestingly, the correlated dephasing environment, within a certain range, was found to enhance the entanglement dynamics starting from certain initial states, such as the disentangled, anti-correlated Bell, and Werner, whereas it exhibits a decaying effect in other cases such as the initial correlated Bell state.
It has been demonstrated in various ways, if not rigorously proven, that when a quantum system and an environment interact they become entangled extremely rapidly and are essentially impossible to disentangle. Another interesting matter has received little attention, namely whether non-local entanglement between small systems is more or less susceptible to rapid decay than local measures of system coherence. An instance of potential importance for solid state quantum computing arises if embedded qubit spins are exposed to both global and local noise at the same time. Here we show that phase-noisy channels affect local and non-local measures of system coherence differently. A consequence is that the time for entanglement decay can be significantly shorter than the time for complete local dephasing for two qubits.
We consider whether quantum coherence in the form of mutual entanglement between a pair of qubits is susceptible to decay that may be more rapid than the decay of the coherence of either qubit individually. An instance of potential importance for solid-state quantum computing arises if embedded qubits (spins, quantum dots, Cooper pair boxes, etc.) are exposed to global and local noise at the same time. Here we allow separate phase-noisy channels to affect local and nonlocal measures of system coherence. We find that the time for decay of the qubit entanglement can be significantly shorter than the time for local dephasing of the individual qubits.
We study the time evolution of two two-state systems (two qubits) initially in the pure entangled states or the maximally entangled mixed states interacting with the individual environmental noise. It is shown that due to environment noise, all quantum entangled states are very fragile and become a classical mixed state in a short-time limit. But the environment can affect entanglement in very different ways. The type of decoherence process for certain entangled states belongs to amplitude damping, while the others belong to dephasing decoherence.
In this thesis, we study the evolution of qubits evolving according to the Schrödinger equation with a Hamiltonian containing noise terms, modeled by random diagonal and off-diagonal matrix elements. For a single qubit exposed to such noise, we show that the noise-averaged qubit density matrix converges to a specific final state, in the limit of large time t. We find that the convergence speed is polynomial in 1=t, with a power that depends on the regularity and the low frequency behaviour of the noise probability density. We evaluate the final state explicitly in the regimes of weak and strong off-diagonal noise. We show that the process implements the well-known dephasing channel in the localized and delocalized basis, respectively. Furthermore, we consider the evolution of the entanglement of two (or more) qubits subject to Gaussian noises with varying means and variances. We consider two different cases: individual noise where each qubit feels an independent noise, and common noise where all qubits are subjected to the same noise. We find the following characteristics of entanglement, measured by the concurrence of qubits. Initially entangled states lose their amount of entanglement in time due to the presence of the noise. The decay of entanglement happens more quickly for common noise than for individual noise. We also detect creation of entanglement due to the common noise: for some initially disentangled states, entanglement is created for intermediate times and then decays to zero in the long time again.