Decoherence, Disentanglement and Foundations of Quantum Mechanics
Decoherence and disentanglement are phenomena central to quantum mechanics. Here, we consider the relative rates of decoherence and disentanglement in two-qubit, three-qubit, and two-qutrit systems when subject to pure dephasing noise alone, and a very recent result for dXd systems. Of particular in...
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| Published in | Quantum Theory: Reconsideration of Foundations--4 (AIP Conference Proceedings Series Volume 962) Vol. 962; pp. 108 - 117 |
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| Main Authors | , |
| Format | Journal Article |
| Language | English |
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01.01.2007
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| Online Access | Get full text |
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| Summary: | Decoherence and disentanglement are phenomena central to quantum mechanics. Here, we consider the relative rates of decoherence and disentanglement in two-qubit, three-qubit, and two-qutrit systems when subject to pure dephasing noise alone, and a very recent result for dXd systems. Of particular interest is the specific counterintuitive effect related to the nonadditivity of such weak noises, known as Entanglement Sudden Death (ESD), in which the entanglement of a composite quantum system goes abruptly to zero in finite time, coherence only exponentially decaying. We discuss these results in the context of the foundations of quantum mechanics. |
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| Bibliography: | SourceType-Scholarly Journals-2 ObjectType-Feature-2 ObjectType-Conference Paper-1 content type line 23 SourceType-Conference Papers & Proceedings-1 ObjectType-Article-3 |
| ISBN: | 9780735404793 0735404798 |
| ISSN: | 0094-243X |
| DOI: | 10.1063/1.2827292 |