Effects of dipolar coupling on an entanglement storage device

Abstract

Abstract Quantum computation requires efficient long-term storage devices to preserve quantum states. An attractive candidate for such storage devices is qubits connected to a common dissipative environment. The common environment gives rise to persistent entanglements in these qubit systems. Hence these systems act efficiently as a storage device of entanglement. However, the existence of a common environment often requires the physical proximity of the qubits and hence results in direct dipolar coupling between the qubits. In this work, we investigate effects of the secular and the nonsecular part of the dipolar coupling on the environment-induced entanglement using a recently-proposed fluctuation-regulated quantum master equation (Chakrabarti and Bhattacharyya 2018 Phys. Rev. A 97 063837). We show that nonsecular part of the dipolar coupling results in reduced entanglement and hence less efficiency of the storage devices. We also discuss the properties of efficient storage that mitigates the detrimental effects of the dipolar coupling on the stored entanglement.