Disentanglement and Decoherence by Open System Dynamics

Details Disentanglement and Decoherence by Open System Dynamics Disentanglement and Decoherence by Open System Dynamics

2003-12-08

arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0312068v1

Phys Rev A 69, 052105 (2004)

Physics

Quantum Physics

15 Pages

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.69.052105

The destruction of quantum interference, decoherence, and the destruction of entanglement both appear to occur under the same circumstances. To address the connection between these two phenomena, we consider the evolution of arbitrary initial states of a two-particle system under open system dynamics described by a class of master equations which produce decoherence of each particle. We show that all initial states become separable after a finite time, and we produce the explicit form of the separated state. The result extends and amplifies an earlier result of Di\'osi. We illustrate the general result by considering the case in which the initial state is an EPR state (in which both the positions and momenta of a particle pair are perfectly correlated). This example clearly illustrates how the spreading out in phase space produced by the environment leads to certain disentanglement conditions becoming satisfied.

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