September 29, 2004Physical Review Letters1,641 citationsOpen Access
Finite-Time Disentanglement Via Spontaneous Emission
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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((2+sqrt2 / 2) times the usual spontaneous lifetime.