Friday, February 10, 2012

1108.2143 (Francesco Ciccarello et al.)

Local-channel-induced rise of quantum correlations in
continuous-variable systems
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Francesco Ciccarello, Vittorio Giovannetti
It was recently discovered that the quantum correlations of a pair of
disentangled qubits, as measured by the quantum discord, can increase solely
because of their interaction with a local dissipative bath. Here, we show that
a similar phenomenon can occur in continuous-variable bipartite systems. To
this aim, we consider a class of two-mode squeezed thermal states and study the
behavior of Gaussian quantum discord under various local Markovian non-unitary
channels. While these in general cause a monotonic drop of quantum
correlations, an initial rise can take place with a thermal-noise channel.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1108.2143

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