Open quantum system dynamics of $X$-states: Entanglement sudden death and sudden birth

Abstract

The origin of disentanglement for two specific sub-classes of $X$-states namely maximally nonlocal mixed states (MNMSs) and maximally entangled mixed states (MEMSs) is investigated analytically for a physical system consisting of two spatially separated qubits interacting with a common vacuum bath. The phenomena of entanglement sudden death (ESD) and the entanglement sudden birth (ESB) are observed, but the characteristics of ESD and ESB are found to be different for the case of two photon coherence and single photon coherence states. The role played by initial coherence for the underlying entanglement dynamics is investigated. Further, the entanglement dynamics of MNMSs and MEMSs under different environmental noises namely phase damping, amplitude damping and RTN noise with respect to the decay and revival of entanglement is analyzed. It's observed that the single photon coherence states are more robust against the sudden death of entanglement indicating the usability of such states in the development of technologies for the practical implementation of quantum information processing tasks.