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Quantum Information Processing

Decrease of the decay rate of the entanglement of a system of two entangled qubits by increasing the temperature of the thermal bath

Julio Cesar González Henao, José Antonio Roversi

Published Jan 21, 2015• 2 citations
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10.1007/s11128-015-0925-0

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