The entanglement dynamics of the bipartite quantum system: toward entanglement sudden death

TL;DR

This paper studies how entanglement between two qubits decays in a dissipative environment, identifying conditions for sudden death of entanglement and analyzing the effects of environmental and initial state parameters.

Contribution

It provides analytical and numerical analysis of entanglement sudden death conditions and times in bipartite qubits under Markovian dissipation, including for non-zero environmental occupation.

Findings

ESD depends on environment mean occupation number, initial entanglement, and purity.

For zero environment occupation, analytical expressions for ESD are derived.

For non-zero occupation, ESD always occurs, supported by theoretical analysis and simulations.

Abstract

We investigate the entanglement dynamics of bipartite quantum system between two qubits with the dissipative environment. We begin with the standard Markovian master equation in the Lindblad form and the initial state which is prepared in the extended Werner-like state: $\rho^{\Phi}_{AB}(0)$. We examine the conditions for entanglement sudden death (ESD) and calculate the corresponding ESD time by the Wootters' concurrence. We observe that ESD is determined by the parameters like the mean occupation number of the environment $N$, amount of initial entanglement $\alpha$, and the purity $r$. For N=0, we get the analytical expression of both ESD condition and ESD time. For $N>0$ we give a theoretical analysis that ESD always occurs, and simulate the concurrence as a function of $\gamma_0t$ and one of the parameters $N, \alpha$, and $r$.