title: Subsystem purity as an enforcer of entanglement.
abstract: We show that entanglement can always arise in the interaction of an arbitrarily large system in any mixed state with a single qubit in a pure state. This small initial purity is enough to enforce entanglement even when the total entropy is close to maximum. We demonstrate this feature using the Jaynes-Cummings interaction of a two-level atom in a pure state with a field in a thermal state at an arbitrarily high temperature. We find the time and temperature variation of a lower bound on the amount of entanglement produced and study the classical correlations quantified by the mutual information.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Quantum Computation, Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PU, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bose
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Fuentes-Guridi
authors.forename: P L
authors.initials: PL
authors.lastname: Knight
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Vedral