Decoherence-Induced Sudden Death of Entanglement and Bell Nonlocality

Decoherence due to the unwanted interaction between a quantum system and environment leads to the degradation of quantum coherence. In particular, for an entangled state, decoherence makes a loss of entanglement and Bell nonlocality known as entanglement sudden death (ESD), and Bell nonlocality sudd...

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Published in:Photonics 2022-02, Vol.9 (2), p.58
Main Authors: Im, Dong-Gil, Kim, Yoon-Ho
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Amplitudes
bell nonlocality sudden death
Coherence
Damping
Data processing
Death
decoherence
Depolarization
Eigenvalues
Entangled states
entanglement sudden death
Environmental degradation
Information processing
Mortality
Quantum entanglement
Quantum phenomena
Quantum theory
Qubits (quantum computing)
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Summary:Decoherence due to the unwanted interaction between a quantum system and environment leads to the degradation of quantum coherence. In particular, for an entangled state, decoherence makes a loss of entanglement and Bell nonlocality known as entanglement sudden death (ESD), and Bell nonlocality sudden death (BNSD). Here, we theoretically investigate the entanglement and Bell nonlocality of a bipartite entangled state under three types of decoherence, amplitude damping, phase damping, and depolarizing. Our result provides the bound of decoherence strength that does not lose the entanglement and Bell nonlocality. In addition, we find two interesting features. One is that the entanglement can survive even though one of the entangled qubits is affected by a large strength of decoherence if the other qubit is affected by a small enough strength of decoherence except for the depolarizing. The second one is that when a specific form of entangled state is under amplitude damping, the Bell nonlocality shows an asymmetric behavior respect to the decoherence strengths on each qubit. Our work provides comprehensive information on ESD and BNSD for the bipartite entangled state which will be useful to implement quantum information processing in the presence of decoherence.
ISSN:2304-6732
2304-6732
DOI:10.3390/photonics9020058