We investigate theoretically the quantum discord dynamics of a two-qubit composite system subject to a common finite-temperature reservoir by solving the Born-Markovian master equation analytically.The ultimate quantu...We investigate theoretically the quantum discord dynamics of a two-qubit composite system subject to a common finite-temperature reservoir by solving the Born-Markovian master equation analytically.The ultimate quantum discord,however,exhibits a relatively high stable value associated with the reservoir temperature despite the permanent disappearance of entanglement simultaneously.Further analysis shows that the unique characteristic depends strongly on the off-diagonal non-zero elements of the density matrix.Our result manifests the greater robustness of quantum discord compared with entanglement,which may be helpful in quantum-information technologies.展开更多
基金supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No.2012CB921900)the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.10574166)the Guangdong Natural Science Foundation (Grant No.8151027501000062)
文摘We investigate theoretically the quantum discord dynamics of a two-qubit composite system subject to a common finite-temperature reservoir by solving the Born-Markovian master equation analytically.The ultimate quantum discord,however,exhibits a relatively high stable value associated with the reservoir temperature despite the permanent disappearance of entanglement simultaneously.Further analysis shows that the unique characteristic depends strongly on the off-diagonal non-zero elements of the density matrix.Our result manifests the greater robustness of quantum discord compared with entanglement,which may be helpful in quantum-information technologies.