EPL Association, European Physical Society Letters, 6(106), p. 60003
DOI: 10.1209/0295-5075/106/60003
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Introduction Decoherence in realistic quantum systems affects quantum features in quantum information processing (QIP) severely. Thus protecting quantum states under decoherence is an important subject in QIP tasks. Many schemes have been put forward to achieve this purpose, including dynamical decoupling, decoherence free subspaces, quantum error correction code, environment-assisted error correction scheme, quantum Zeno dynamics, etc. A novel idea of protecting quantum states by weak measurement and measurement reversal has been proposed theoretically, and it has been experimentally implemented in the last few years. The researches focus on the fidelity and quantum entanglement of a quantum system protected by weak measurement and measurement reversal under decoherence. It is widely believed that quantum entanglement is only one of the ingredients of quantum features. As a larger family, quantum correlations are believed to reflect more about the quantumness in QIP. There are many kinds of quantifiers of quantum correlations, we adopt the local quantum uncertainty for its operability [1]. The closed form of the LQU for high-dimensional quantum systems is given in [2]. We study the enhancement of quantum correlations for qubit-qubit and qutrit-qutrit quantum systems. It need to be noted that in the three-dimensional case, we suppose each of the two particles has V-configuration energy levels, as illustrated in Fig. 1. The extension to Λ-configuration can be naturally done by our approach. In this case, only the transitions from |2 and |1 to |0 are allowed, which simplifies our analysis. In order to characterize decoherence in finite temperature environment, we use the generalized amplitude damping channel. |0> |2> |1> Figure 1: Energy level of a V-configuration particle. The transitions characterized by red lines only happen when the temperature is non-zero.. Closed form of local quantum uncertainty and a sudden change of quantum correlations. arXiv: 1307.0576 (2013). [3] N. Doustimotlagh, S. Wang, C. You and G. L. Long. Enhancement of quantum correlations between two particles under decoherence in finite-temperature environment. Europhys. Lett. 106, 60003 (2014). Acknowledgments