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Title of Journal: Quantum Inf Process
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Abbravation: Quantum Information Processing
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Authors: C Anastopoulos S Shresta B L Hu
Publish Date: 2009/10/07
Volume: 8, Issue: 6, Pages: 549-
Abstract
We study the nonequilibrium dynamics of a pair of qubits made of twolevel atoms separated in space with distance r and interacting with one common electromagnetic field but not directly with each other Our calculation makes a weak coupling assumption but no Born or Markov approximation We write the evolution equations of the reduced density matrix of the twoqubit system after integrating out the electromagnetic field modes We study two classes of states in detail Class A is a one parameter family of states which are the superposition of the highest energy and lowest energy states and Class B states which are the linear combinations of the symmetric and the antisymmetric Bell states Our results for an initial Bell state are similar to those obtained before for the same model derived under the Born–Markov approximation However in the Class A states the behavior is qualitatively different under the nonMarkovian evolution we do not see sudden death of quantum entanglement and subsequent revivals except when the qubits are sufficiently far apart We provide explanations for such differences of behavior both between these two classes of states and between the predictions from the Markov and nonMarkovian dynamics We also study the decoherence of this twoqubit system
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