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Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 230501 (2004) [4 pages]

Decoherence and Multipartite Entanglement

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André R. R. Carvalho, Florian Mintert, and Andreas Buchleitner
Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme, Nöthnitzer Strasse 38, D-01187 Dresden, Germany

Received 6 July 2004; published 1 December 2004

We study the dynamics of multipartite entanglement under the influence of decoherence. A suitable generalization of concurrence reveals distinct scaling of the entanglement decay rate of Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger and W states, for various environments.

© 2004 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.230501
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.230501
PACS:
03.67.Mn, 03.65.Ud, 03.65.Yz