Almost a decade ago, physicists encountered a strange quantum phenomenon that predicts an unusual death of entanglement, under the influence of a local noisy environment, known as entanglement sudden death (ESD). This could be an immediate stumbling block in realizing all entanglement based quantum information and computation protocols. In this paper, we propose a scheme to tackle such shortcomings by exploiting the phenomenon of exceptional points. Starting with a binary mechanical $\mathcal{PT}$ symmetric system, realized over an optomechanical platform, we show that a substantial delay in ESD can be achieved via pushing the system towards an exceptional point. This finding has been further extended to a higher-order (third-order) exceptional point by taking a more complicated tripartite entanglement into account.

• Received 2 June 2019

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.100.063846