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View SchemaCreation of Entanglement by Interaction with a Common Heat Bath
| Authors | Daniel Braun |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0205019 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0205019 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.277901 |
| Journal | Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 277901-4 (2002) |
Abstract
I show that entanglement between two qubits can be generated if the two qubits interact with a common heat bath in thermal equilibrium, but do not interact directly with each other. In most situations the entanglement is created for a very short time after the interaction with the heat bath is switched on, but depending on system, coupling, and heat bath, the entanglement may persist for arbitrarily long times. This mechanism sheds new light on the creation of entanglement. A particular example of two quantum dots in a closed cavity is discussed, where the heat bath is given by the blackbody radiation.
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