Decoherence of maximally mixed multi-qubit cluster states
Khalid Talbi, Mostafa Mansour
Abstract
We investigate the decoherence of maximally mixed multi-partite cluster states of a physical system of n qubits. We introduce the disconnected cluster states for an ensemble of non interacting qubits and we give the corresponding separable density matrices. The maximally entangled cluster states can be generated from disconnected cluster states, by applying the entanglig operators between the pair of qubits. When exposed to a local noisy interaction with the environment, the multi-qubit system evolves from its initial pure maximally entangled cluster state to a decohered mixed state. The deco-hered mixed states for multipartite systems are explicitly expressed and their bipartite entanglement is characterized by using the genuine multipartite neg-ativity as a quantifier of entanglement. Conclusion Entangled cluster states are obtained by a dynamical evolution of multi-qubit system by using an Hamiltonian of Ising type. Cluster states are of great interest in quantum computing and are suitable in various tasks of quantum computation. Decohered mixed states are derived via a local noisy evolution of the entangled multi-qubit system in contact with environment. More precisely , under the influence of the de-coherence, the multi-qubit system loses entanglement and evolves from it's initial maximally entangled cluster state to a decohered mixed state. More precisely we have given explicit expressions of decohered mixed states derived from n-qubit entangled cluster states. The separability for decohered mixed states is addressed with the concept of the genuine multipartite nega-tivity.