Entangling capacities of noisy non-local Hamiltonians
by
Somshubhro Bandyopadhyay
University of Toronto
Coauthors: Daniel Lidar

We show that intrinsic Gaussian fluctuations in system control parameters impose limits on the ability of non-local (exchange) Hamiltonians to generate entanglement in the presence of mixed initial states. We find three equivalence classes. For the Ising and XYZ models there are qualitatively distinct sharp entanglement-generation transitions, while the class of Heisenberg, XY, and XXZ Hamiltonians is capable of generating entanglement for any finite noise level. Our findings imply that exchange Hamiltonians are surprisingly robust in their ability to generate entanglement in the presence of noise, thus potentially reducing the need for quantum error correction.

Date received: July 20, 2004