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View SchemaFinite-Time Disentanglement via Spontaneous Emission
| Authors | Ting Yu, J. H. Eberly |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0404161 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0404161 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.140404 |
| Journal | Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 140404 (2004) |
Abstract
We show that under the influence of pure vacuum noise two entangled qubits become completely disentangled in a finite time, and in a specific example we find the time to be given by $\ln \Big(\frac{2 +\sqrt 2}{2}\Big)$ times the usual spontaneous lifetime.
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