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Concurrence vs. purity: Influence of local channels on Bell states of two qubits

Mario Ziman, Vladimir Buzek

abstract: We analyze how a maximally entangled state of two-qubits (e.g., the singlet $\psi_s$) is affected by action of local channels described by completely positive maps $\cE$ . We analyze the concurrence and the purity of states $\varrho_\cE=\cE\otimes\cI[\psi_s]$.Using the concurrence-{\it vs}-purity phase diagram we characterize local channels $\cE$ by their action on the singlet state $\psi_s$. We specify a region of the concurrence-{\it vs.}-purity diagram that is achievable from the singlet state via the action of unital channels. We show that even most general (including non-unital) local channels acting just on a single qubit of the original singlet state cannot generate the maximally entangled mixed states (MEMS). We study in detail various time evolutions of the original singlet state induced by local Markovian semigroups. We show that the decoherence process is represented in the concurrence-{\it vs.}-purity diagram by a line that forms the lower bound of the achievable region for unital maps. On the other hand, the depolarization process is represented by a line that forms the upper bound of the region of maps induced by unital maps.

oai_identifier:
oai:arXiv.org:quant-ph/0508106
categories:
quant-ph
comments:
9 pages, 6 figures
doi:
10.1103/PhysRevA.72.052325
arxiv_id:
quant-ph/0508106
created:
2005-08-15

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