Dynamical entanglement of vibrations in an algebraic model
Xi-Wen Hou, Jing-Hua Chen, Zhong-Qi Ma · Physical Review A · 2006
The dynamical entanglement of two stretching vibrations of triatomic molecules ${\mathrm{H}}_{2}\mathrm{O}$ and $\mathrm{S}{\mathrm{O}}_{2}$ in an algebraic model is studied in terms of the reduced-density linear entropy with initial states that are, respectively, taken to be the product of Fock states and coherent states on each bond. It is shown that the entanglement of initial states with local-mode character is regular while that of states with normal-mode character is irregular. For initial coherent states with a small amplitude, the regularity of the entanglement with a long period appears in $\mathrm{S}{\mathrm{O}}_{2}$ and ``classical'' beat phenomena of the entanglement happens in ${\mathrm{H}}_{2}\mathrm{O}$, where the period of the beat is longer. Those long periods of the entanglement indicate that the entanglement sustains long enough so that quantum information process and quantum computation could be accomplished.