Manipulating Entanglement Dynamics in Dephased Interacting Qubits Using a Radiation Field

TL;DR

This paper explores how radiation fields affect entanglement in qubit systems exposed to dephasing environments.

Contribution

The study reveals how radiation fields can induce terminal disentanglement and influence noise-enhanced efficiency in qubit systems.

Findings

Introducing a radiation field leads to terminal disentanglement in finite time.

Stronger atom–field interactions and detunings significantly affect entanglement dynamics.

Correlated dephasing environments can enable noise-enhanced efficiency under certain conditions.

Abstract

We study the entanglement dynamics of a pair of non-identical interacting atoms (qubits) coupled off-resonance to a single-mode cavity radiation field and exposed to dephasing environments. The qubits are studied starting from various initial states that are disentangled from an initially coherent field. The system models the basic building units of quantum information processing (QIP) platforms under the realistic considerations of asymmetry and external environmental influences. We investigate how introducing a radiation field alters the system’s entanglement dynamics in the presence of dephasing environments, and how it impacts the effects of the dephasing environments themselves. The work examines the problem under various settings of inter-qubit interactions, which are now experimentally controllable in some of the newly engineered artificial qubit systems. We illustrate that only upon introducing the radiation field, the system suffers a terminal disentanglement (followed by no revivals) in a finite time. This behavior is exacerbated when the atoms’ interaction with the field is stronger. Moreover, the effects of the field’s intensity and the atoms’ detunings are vastly sensitive to the choice of the initial state. We also demonstrate that the closer the atoms’ transition frequencies are to resonance with the field, the more pronounced are the effects of strengthening the independent dephasing environments corresponding to some initial states. Those states also suffered a greater reduction in entanglement content when the qubits with stronger atom–field interaction strength were influenced by a stronger independent dephasing environment. In addition, we examined the ability of the correlated dephasing environment to induce a noise-enhanced efficiency in the presence of an external radiation field. We showed that the radiation field could play a decisive role in enabling or restricting noise-enhanced efficiency, but one that is also highly sensitive to the system’s initial state.

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