Entanglement increase from local interactions and not completely positive maps

Thomas F. Jordan, Anil Shaji, and E. C. G. Sudarshan
Phys. Rev. A 76, 022102 – Published 16 August 2007

Abstract

Simple examples are constructed that show the entanglement of two qubits being both increased and decreased by interactions on just one of them. One of the two qubits interacts with a third qubit, a control, that is never entangled or correlated with either of the two entangled qubits, and is never entangled, but becomes correlated, with the system of those two qubits. The two entangled qubits do not interact, but their state can change from maximally entangled to separable or from separable to maximally entangled. Similar changes for the two qubits are made with a SWAP operation between one of the qubits and a control; then there are compensating changes of entanglement that involve the control. When the entanglement increases, the map that describes the change of the state of the two entangled qubits is not completely positive. The combination of two independent interactions that individually give exponential decay of the entanglement can cause the entanglement to not decay exponentially but, instead, go to zero at a finite time.

  • Received 3 April 2007

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.76.022102

©2007 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Thomas F. Jordan*

  • Physics Department, University of Minnesota, Duluth, Minnesota 55812, USA

Anil Shaji

  • Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of New Mexico, 800 Yale Boulevard NE, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA

E. C. G. Sudarshan

  • Center for Statistical Mechanics, The University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station C1609, Austin, Texas 78712, USA

  • *tjordan@d.umn.edu
  • shaji@unm.edu
  • sudarshan@physics.utexas.edu

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Vol. 76, Iss. 2 — August 2007

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