Evolution of Global Quantum Discord for three-coupled quantum dots interacting with a quantized light field in a lossless cavity is studied and its correlations with probabilities of the dots in the entangled states are explored.
The generation of entanglement between two identical, interacting quantum dots---initially in ground states---by a coherent field and the subsequent time evolution of the entanglement are studied by calculating the concurrence between the two dots. The results predict that while it is possible to generate entanglement (or entanglement of formation, as defined for a mixed state) between the two dots, at no time do the dots become fully entangled to each other or is a maximally entangled Bell state ever achieved. We also observe that the degree of entanglement increases with an increase in the photon number inside the cavity and a decrease in the dot-photon coupling. The behavior of the two-dot system, initially prepared in an entangled state and interacting with thermal light, is also studied.
In the field of quantum information, which is subdivided into quantum computing and quantum cryptography, quantum correlations are essential for a performance or security boost not achievable with classical means. Various quantum correlation measures exist for evaluating a state’s potential to be a qubit (quantum bit). Entanglement, or nonseparability of quantum states, is the older, better known class of measures. However, for a mixed state, quantum entanglement is an incomplete measure of quantumness. Quantum discord, and its multibody extension global discord, encompass all quantum correlations. We study systems of coupled quantum dots using these measures. We study the discord of two quantum dots in the steady state with dissipation and detuning. The entanglement of the system was previously studied by Mitra and Vyas. We compare quantum discord to entanglement, finding high discord in an unentangled region, namely the upper branch of the bistability curve, where the driving field is high. By adjusting the detuning between the dots and the driving field, we can optimize the quantum discord and entanglement. We present an efficient numerical method for calculating global discord and analyze its speed and scaling. We verify that the method works for two, three, and four qubits and run speed tests. We present further simplifications that greatly enhance the scaling of the method with system size provided that the bodies are identical, but which also improve the speed otherwise. We compare our system of two quantum dots to an otherwise identical system with three quantum dots. We observe tristability in the cavity field as a function of driving field. The high field limit of global discord is a larger portion of the maximum than the discord in the same limit for the system of two quantum dots. The improvement in correlations due to detuning is still present but diminished compared to that in our two quantum dot system. The decreased effectiveness of detuning is, however, offset by the increased effect of high dot coupling, whereby the peak found in said limit with no detuning may exceed the asymptotic value without the aid of detuning.