Relaxation Due to the Partial Swap Collisions with a Random Reservoir

We analyze the dynamics of the system consisting of a qubit sequentially interacting with a chain of qubits that are initially individually in a pure random state. Each pairwise collision has been modeled as a partial swap transformation. The relaxation to equilibrium of the purity of the system qubit, averaged over all the initial states of the environment, is analytically computed. In particular, we show that the steady state depends on the parameter η of the partial swap transformation. Finally, we investigate aspects of the entanglement dynamics for qubits and show that such process can create typical multipartite entanglement between the system qubit and the qubits of the chain.