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Quantum entanglement

Watching correlations disappear

Nature Physics volume 6, pages 938–939 (2010)Cite this article

Engineered decoherence enables tracking of multipartite entanglement as a quantum state decays.

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Figure 1: Progression of entanglement properties as the decoherence of the four-qubit entangled state increases.

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  1. Jonathan Home is in the Institute for Quantum Electronics, ETH Zurich, Hoenggerberg, Zurich 8093, Switzerland. jhome@phys.ethz.ch,

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