Entanglement increase from local interaction in the absence of initial quantum correlation in the environment and between the system and the environment

Iman Sargolzahi and Sayyed Yahya Mirafzali
Phys. Rev. A 97, 022331 – Published 23 February 2018

Abstract

We consider a bipartite quantum system S=AB such that the part A is isolated from the environment E and only the part B interacts with E. Under such circumstances, entanglement of the system may experience decreases and increases, during the evolution of the system. Here, we show that the entanglement of the system can exceed its initial value, under such local interaction, even though, at the initial moment, there is no entanglement in the environment and the system and the environment are only classically correlated. The case which is studied in this paper possesses another interesting feature too: The reduced dynamics of the system can be modeled as a completely positive map. In addition, we introduce the concept of inaccessible entanglement to explain why entanglement can exceed its initial value, under local interactions, in open quantum systems.

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  • Received 16 August 2017

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.97.022331

©2018 American Physical Society

Physics Subject Headings (PhySH)

Quantum Information, Science & TechnologyGeneral Physics

Authors & Affiliations

Iman Sargolzahi*

  • Department of Physics, University of Neyshabur, Neyshabur, Iran

Sayyed Yahya Mirafzali

  • Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Vali-e-Asr University of Rafsanjan, Rafsanjan, Iran

  • *sargolzahi@neyshabur.ac.ir; sargolzahi@gmail.com
  • y.mirafzali@vru.ac.ir

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Vol. 97, Iss. 2 — February 2018

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