Experimental protocol for qubit-environment entanglement detection
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| author | Bizzarri, Gabriele Sansoni, Linda Stefanutti, Eleonora Gianani, Ilaria Barbieri, Marco Roszak, Katarzyna Chiuri, Andrea |
| author_facet | Bizzarri, Gabriele Sansoni, Linda Stefanutti, Eleonora Gianani, Ilaria Barbieri, Marco Roszak, Katarzyna Chiuri, Andrea |
| contents | Decoherence is a manifestation of the coupling of a system with its environment. The resulting loss of information can hamper the functioning of quantum devices, hence the need of understanding its origin and dynamics. Decoherence can stem from entanglement, but it can also be classical in nature. Indeed, methods have been developed to understand whether qubit-environment entanglement (QEE) is actually present in some important classes of quantum channels - pure dephasing. Their practicality resides in the fact they only require accessing the system qubit. In this article we show an implementation of this technique in a photonic quantum channel simulator via a scheme that has been tailored to the system under study. By controlling the input state of the environment in our simulation, we can check the occurrence of qubit environment entanglement in simple, yet insightful test cases. Our results showcase the usefulness and experimental relevance of the QEE witnessing technique. |
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| spellingShingle | Experimental protocol for qubit-environment entanglement detection Bizzarri, Gabriele Sansoni, Linda Stefanutti, Eleonora Gianani, Ilaria Barbieri, Marco Roszak, Katarzyna Chiuri, Andrea Quantum Physics Decoherence is a manifestation of the coupling of a system with its environment. The resulting loss of information can hamper the functioning of quantum devices, hence the need of understanding its origin and dynamics. Decoherence can stem from entanglement, but it can also be classical in nature. Indeed, methods have been developed to understand whether qubit-environment entanglement (QEE) is actually present in some important classes of quantum channels - pure dephasing. Their practicality resides in the fact they only require accessing the system qubit. In this article we show an implementation of this technique in a photonic quantum channel simulator via a scheme that has been tailored to the system under study. By controlling the input state of the environment in our simulation, we can check the occurrence of qubit environment entanglement in simple, yet insightful test cases. Our results showcase the usefulness and experimental relevance of the QEE witnessing technique. |
| title | Experimental protocol for qubit-environment entanglement detection |
| topic | Quantum Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.12196 |