Sudden death of distillability in qutrit-qutrit systems

2009/04/30 by Wei Song, Lin Chen, Shi-Liang Zhu · 45 citations
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Computer science #Dephasing #Noise (video) #Physics #Quantum #Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture #Quantum Information and Cryptography #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #Quantum decoherence #Quantum entanglement #Quantum mechanics #Quantum nonlocality #Qutrit #Statistical physics #Sudden death #quant-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physreva.80.012331

published in Physical Review A 80(1) (American Physical Society) · published version, small changes in Sec.III, 6 pages, 3 figures

openalex publication_date 2009/07/31 · arxiv created 2009/08/01 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

We introduce the concept of distillability sudden death, i.e., free entangled states can evolve into nondistillable (bound entangled or separable) states in finite time under local noise. We describe the phenomenon through a specific model of local dephasing noise and compare the behavior of states in terms of the Bures fidelity. Then we propose a few methods to avoid distillability sudden death of states under (general) local dephasing noise so that free entangled states can be robust against decoherence. Moreover, we find that bound entangled states are unstable in the limit of infinite time.

Citations

• Sudden Death, Birth and Stable Entanglement in a Two-Qubit Heisenberg XY Spin Chain
• Evolution equation of entanglement for bipartite systems
• Mixed-State Entanglement and Distillation: Is there a “Bound” Entanglement in Nature?
• Quantum Open System Theory: Bipartite Aspects
• Finite-Time Disentanglement Via Spontaneous Emission
• Bound Entanglement Can Be Activated
• Quantum error correction may delay, but also cause, entanglement sudden death
• The entanglement character between atoms in the non-degenerate two photons Tavis–Cummings model
• Rank-three bipartite entangled states are distillable
• Irreversibility for All Bound Entangled States
• Sudden Birth versus Sudden Death of Entanglement in Multipartite Systems
• The geometry of entanglement sudden death
• Sudden Death of Entanglement
• Manipulating entanglement sudden death of two-qubit X-states in zero- and finite-temperature reservoirs
• Dark periods and revivals of entanglement in a two-qubit system