Entanglement dynamics for qubits dissipating into a common environment

Abstract

We provide an analytical investigation of the entanglement dynamics for a system composed of an arbitrary number of qubits dissipating into a common environment. Specifically we consider initial states whose evolution remains confined on low dimensional subspaces of the operators space. We then find for which pairs of qubits entanglement can be generated and can persist at steady state. Finally, we determine the stationary distribution of entanglement as well as its scaling versus the total number of qubits in the system.