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Chin. Phys. B, 2014, Vol. 23(9): 090306    DOI: 10.1088/1674-1056/23/9/090306
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Comments on “Distillability sudden death in qutrit–qutrit systems under thermal reservoirs”

Mazhar Ali
Department of Electrical Engineering, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, 22060 Abbottabad, Pakistan
Abstract  In a recent paper (2012 Chin. Phys. B 21 084205), the authors studied the problem of distillability sudden death. We find that their equation of motion is incorrect and consequently the rest of the paper is wrong. Even apart from starting with a wrong equation of motion, their description of the phenomenon of distillability sudden death is totally misleading and needs to be rectified. To this aim, we show that certain initially prepared free-entangled states become bound-entangled in a finite time under thermal reservoirs. Moreover, in contrast with zero-temperature reservoirs, simple local unitary transformations cannot completely avoid distillability sudden death.
Keywords:  distillability      thermal reservoirs      bound entanglement  
Received:  29 December 2013      Revised:  17 February 2014      Accepted manuscript online: 
PACS:  03.65.Yz (Decoherence; open systems; quantum statistical methods)  
  03.67.Mn (Entanglement measures, witnesses, and other characterizations)  
  03.65.Ud (Entanglement and quantum nonlocality)  
Corresponding Authors:  Mazhar Ali     E-mail:  mazharaliawan@yahoo.com

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Mazhar Ali Comments on “Distillability sudden death in qutrit–qutrit systems under thermal reservoirs” 2014 Chin. Phys. B 23 090306

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