Statistical portrait of the entanglement decay of two-qubit memories
K. M. Fonseca-Romero, Julián Martínez-Rincón, Carlos Viviescas · Physical Review A · 2012
We present an approach to the study of entanglement decay which focuses on collective properties. As an example, we investigate the entanglement decay of a two-qubit system produced by local identical reservoirs acting on the qubits for three experimentally and theoretically relevant cases. We study the probability distributions of disentanglement times, a quantity independent of the measure used to quantify entanglement, and the time-dependent probability distribution of concurrence. Analytical results are obtained for initially uniformly distributed pure states. The calculation of these probability distributions gives a complete insight into how different decoherence channels affect the entanglement initially contained in the set of two-qubit pure states. Numerical results are reported for randomly distributed initial mixed states. Although the paper focuses in Markovian noisy channels, we show that our results also describe nonautonomous and non-Markovian channels.