Finite-Time Disentanglement via Spontaneous Emission
Preprint
- 28 April 2004
- preprint Published in ArXiv
Abstract
We show that under the influence of pure vacuum noise two entangled qubits become completely disentangled in a finite time, and in a specific example we find the time to be given by $\ln \Big(\frac{2 +\sqrt 2}{2}\Big)$ times the usual spontaneous lifetime.