Journal
REPORTS ON PROGRESS IN PHYSICS
Volume 78, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/0034-4885/78/4/042001
Keywords
surface plasmon polariton; strong coupling; normal mode splitting; vacuum Rabi splitting; quantum entanglement; quantum information; quantum optics
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- German Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
- Vidi grant Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research [639.072.802]
- Spanish MICIIN through a 'Juan de la Cierva' grant
- European Union under Marie Curie IEF [299141]
- Brazilian National Institute for Science and Technology on Quantum Information
- Brazilian funding agency CNPq
- Brazilian funding agency Faperj
- Brazilian funding agency CAPES
- Belgian Interuniversity Attraction Poles Programme [P6/02]
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One of the greatest challenges in the fields of quantum information processing and quantum technologies is the detailed coherent control over each and every constituent of quantum systems with an ever increasing number of particles. Within this endeavor, harnessing of many-body entanglement against the detrimental effects of the environment is a major pressing issue. Besides being an important concept from a fundamental standpoint, entanglement has been recognized as a crucial resource for quantum speed-ups or performance enhancements over classical methods. Understanding and controlling many-body entanglement in open systems may have strong implications in quantum computing, quantum simulations of many-body systems, secure quantum communication or cryptography, quantum metrology, our understanding of the quantum-to-classical transition, and other important questions of quantum foundations. In this paper we present an overview of recent theoretical and experimental efforts to underpin the dynamics of entanglement under the influence of noise. Entanglement is thus taken as a dynamic quantity on its own, and we survey how it evolves due to the unavoidable interaction of the entangled system with its surroundings. We analyze several scenarios, corresponding to different families of states and environments, which render a very rich diversity of dynamical behaviors. In contrast to single-particle quantities, like populations and coherences, which typically vanish only asymptotically in time, entanglement may disappear at a finite time. In addition, important classes of entanglement display an exponential decay with the number of particles when subject to local noise, which poses yet another threat to the already-challenging scaling of quantum technologies. Other classes, however, turn out to be extremely robust against local noise. Theoretical results and recent experiments regarding the difference between local and global decoherence are summarized. Control and robustness-enhancement techniques, scaling laws, statistical and geometrical aspects of multipartite-entanglement decay are also reviewed; all in order to give a broad picture of entanglement dynamics in open quantum systems addressed to both theorists and experimentalists inside and outside the field of quantum information.
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