Environment-assisted creation and enhancement of two-mode entanglement in a joint decoherent model
Shao-Hua Xiang, Bin Shao, Kehui Song · Physical Review A · 2008
We investigate the entanglement dynamics of two modes in a common squeezed thermal environment by means of the characteristic function method and the logarithmic negativity. When the two modes are prepared initially in separable squeezed states, we find that the external environment can not only induce but also enhance the two-mode entanglement if their initial squeezing parameters are suitably chosen. When the two modes are initially in a two-mode squeezed vacuum state, we find that whether the initial entanglement is degraded or increased depends strongly on the difference between the squeezing parameters of the considered bath and of a quantum state. Finally, we give a condition of all two-mode entangled Gaussian states to be the decoherence-free state in a given squeezed bath.