Generation and protection of steady-state quantum correlations due to quantum channels with memory

Abstract

We have proposed a scheme of the generation and preservation of two-qubit steady state quantum correlations through quantum channels where successive uses of the channels are correlated. Different types of noisy channels with memory, such as amplitude damping, phase-damping, and depolarizing channels have been taken into account. Some analytical or numerical results are presented. The effect of channels with memory on dynamics of quantum correlations has been discussed in detail. The results show that, steady state entanglement between two independent qubits without entanglement subject to amplitude damping channel with memory can be generated. Besides, we compare the dynamics of entanglement with that of quantum discord when a two-qubit system is prepared in an entangled state. We show that entanglement dynamics suddenly disappears, while quantum discord displays only in the asymptotic limit. Two-qubit quantum correlations can be preserved at a long time in the limit of $\mu\rightarrow1$.