Entanglement dynamics of nonidentical oscillators under decohering environments

We acknowledge funding from FISICOS (FIS2007-60327) and CoQuSys (200450E566). G.L.G. is supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation through the program Juan de la Cierva.

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