Periodic entanglement revivals of asynchronously excited cavity-coupled qubits
Tiantian Huan, Ri‐Gui Zhou, Franco Nori, Hou Ian · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2020
In a multi-partite system, the multipartite concurrence of the entire system differs from the sum of the bipartite concurrences of its components. For a system with an even number of components, the relation between them is described by a monogamy inequality that compares the bipartite concurrences of two subsystems comprising even-number components and those of two subsystems comprising odd-number components. The difference between the even and the odd clusterings is exactly quantified by a polynomial invariant. We study the dynamic evolution of the polynomial invariant on three superconducting qubits inhomogeneously coupled to a circuit cavity. We show that in this quadripartite system, the non-negativity of the degree-4 invariant holds strictly over time and vanishes periodically. The magnitude of the invariant increases monotonically with the absolute coupling strength while the period of the vanishing and revival maximizes when the couplings among the qubits are inhomogeneous, showing the benefit of asynchronous qubit excitations in extending entanglement time.