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Simone Montangero1, Giuliano Benenti, Rosario Fazio
1NEST-INFM and Scuola Normale Superiore, Piazza dei Cavalieri 7, 56126 Pisa, Italy. monta@sns.it
Abstract:
The dynamics of the pairwise entanglement in a qubit lattice in the presence of static imperfections exhibits different regimes. We show that there is a transition from a perturbative region, where the entanglement is stable against imperfections, to the ergodic regime, in which a pair of qubits becomes entangled with the rest of the lattice and the pairwise entanglement drops to zero. The transition is almost independent of the size of the quantum computer. We consider both the case of an initial maximally entangled and separable state. In this last case there is a broad crossover region in which the computer imperfections can be used to create a significant amount of pairwise entanglement.
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