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Weak Disorder Enhancing the Production of Entanglement in Quantum Walks

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We find out a few ways to improve the realization of entanglement between the internal (spin) and external (position) degrees of freedom of a quantum particle, through the insertion of disordered time steps in a one-dimensional discrete time quantum walk in different scenarios. The disorder is introduced by a randomly chosen quantum coin obtained from a uniform distribution among infinite quantum coins or only between Hadamard and Fourier coins for all the time steps (strong disorder). We can also decrease the amount of disorder by alternating disordered and ordered time steps throughout a quantum walk or by establishing a probability p < 0.5 to pick a Fourier coin instead of a Hadamard one for each time step (weak disorder). Our results show that both scenarios lead to maximal entanglement outperforming the ordered quantum walks. However, these last scenarios are more efficient to create entanglement, because they achieve high entanglement rates in fewer time steps than the former ones. In order to compare distinct disordered cases, we perform an average entanglement by averaging over a large set of initial qubits over time starting from one site (local state) or spread over many neighbor positions following a Gaussian distribution. Some transient behaviors from order to disorder in quantum walks are also evaluated and discussed. Experimental remarks based on available experimental platforms from the literature are made.

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  1. The discrete Gaussian states are defined within j = − 100 and 100 centered at j = 0, the condition of normalization gives an error below 10− 5% when σ0 = 10.

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Acknowledgments

We thank F. Cardano for kindly enlightening some experimental aspects mentioned here and also J. Longo for her careful reading and suggestions to improve the presentation of the manuscript.

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This study was financed in part by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - Brasil (CAPES) - Finance Code 001.

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Orthey, A.C., Amorim, E.P.M. Weak Disorder Enhancing the Production of Entanglement in Quantum Walks. Braz J Phys 49, 595–604 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13538-019-00685-2

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