Abstract
We investigate the entanglement dynamics of two harmonic oscillators with a weak time-dependent coupling. We find strong connections between the dynamical behaviors of the entanglement and the stability of the normal modes. An abrupt transition of the entanglement dynamics from periodic and bounded to monotonically increasing occurs, when one of the normal modes becomes dynamically unstable as the modulation amplitude crosses the critical value. In particular, when the modulation frequency is roughly twice the oscillator frequency, an explicit critical value for the modulation strength is derived to specify the transition. Moreover, it is found that one can significantly change the dynamical behavior of the entanglement by adding an extremely weak time modulation with specific frequency to a constant coupling.
3 More- Received 11 November 2014
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.91.012312
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