Published June 2007 | Version v1
Journal article

Entanglement oscillations in non-Markovian quantum channels

  • 1. Department of Physics, University of Turku, FI-20014 Turku (Finland)
  • 2. Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Universita di Milan, I-20133 (Italy)
  • 3. Institute for Scientific Interchange Foundation, I-10133, Turin (Italy)
  • 4. Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Universita di Milano, I-20133 (Italy)

Description

We study the non-Markovian dynamics of a two-mode bosonic system interacting with two uncorrelated thermal bosonic reservoirs. We present the solution to the exact microscopic Master equation in terms of the quantum characteristic function and study in detail the dynamics of entanglement for bipartite Gaussian states. In particular, we analyze the effects of short-time system-reservoir correlations on the separability thresholds and show that the relevant parameter is the reservoir spectral density. If the frequencies of the involved modes are within the reservoir spectral density, entanglement persists for a longer time than in a Markovian channel. On the other hand, when the reservoir spectrum is out of resonance, short-time correlations lead to a faster decoherence and to the appearance of entanglement oscillations

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review. A
Journal Volume
75
Journal Issue
6
Journal Page Range
p. 062119-062119.5
ISSN
1050-2947
CODEN
PLRAAN

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
39014472
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
BOSONS; CORRELATIONS; MARKOV PROCESS; MATHEMATICAL SOLUTIONS; OSCILLATIONS; QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT; QUANTUM MECHANICS; RESONANCE; SPECTRA; SPECTRAL DENSITY
Descriptors DEC
FUNCTIONS; MECHANICS; SPECTRAL FUNCTIONS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES

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