Zhongguo kexue. Wulixue Lixue Tianwenxue
Adiabatic manipulation and decoherence dynamics of quantum correlations
Min Li, Wanfang Liu, Zheng Li
Abstract
By adiabatically manipulating the Rabi frequency of the drive field, the quantum discord (QD) has been used to analyze the quantum correlation for two atoms of the ensemble under the electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) mechanism. It is shown that, the quantum correlation of two atoms depends on the Rabi frequency of the drive field, the excitation mode, the photon number and the atom number of the ensemble. If more than half of atoms were excited, the ensemble can generate the maximum quantum correlation. Furthermore, we investigate the behavior of the quantum correlation under three decoherence channels respectively. It is found that the sudden death of the quantum correlation do not exist in any decoherence channel. Generated via the full excitation mode with a small mixed angle, the quantum correlation has a strong survival ability under the amplitude damping channel, but for a larger mixed angle, the survival ability is stronger under phase damping channel. The quantum correlation generated via the half excitation mode displays a strong survive ability for arbitrary mixed angle under the amplitude damping channel. By manipulating the Rabi frequency in this excitation mode, for an appropriate mixed angel, survivability of quantum correlation reverses under the phase damping channel and the depolarizing channel. But when the mixed angle reaches the critical value towards π/2 with the number of atoms increasing. For the low excitation mode with any mixed angle, the quantum correlation survives more easily under the amplitude damping channel, conversely, it survives more difficultly under the depolarizing channel.