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Irreversible decay of nonlocal entanglement via a reservoir of a single degree of freedom.

G. VetriA. Vaglica

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PhysicsQuantum PhysicsBell stateQuantum discordQuantum decoherenceFOS: Physical sciencesQuantum entanglementQuantum PhysicsSquashed entanglementAtomic and Molecular Physics and OpticsLocal hidden variable theoryClassical mechanicsQuantum mechanicsQubitQuantum Physics (quant-ph)Quantum teleportation

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Recently, it has been realized that nonlocal disentanglement may take a finite time as opposite to the asymptotic decay of local coherences. We find in this paper that a sudden irreversible death of entanglement takes place in a two atom optical Stern-Gerlach model. In particular, the one degree non dissipative environment here considered suddenly destroys the initial entanglement of any Bell's states $\ket{\phi^{\pm}}$ superposition.

10.1103/physreva.75.062120http://hdl.handle.net/10447/3563