Analysis of mixed state entanglement with intrinsic decoherence

We analyze different entanglement measures for a mixed state two-level system in the presence of intrinsic decoherence. The information about entanglement is obtained by comparing the results for the atomic Wehrl entropy and negativity with the analytical results for a simple case. For the strong decoherence case we find that a similar and long-lived maximum Wehrl entropy and negativity between atom and field are shown. The results highlight the important roles played by both the decoherence parameter and the initial state setting in determining the evolution of the atomic Wehrl entropy and negativity.     

单模光场与二能级原子的纠缠的内禀退相干

在一个考虑了内禀退相干的单模光场与二能级原子的耦合系统中,平均光子数,激发态的概率和退相干系数如何影响纠缠随时间演化还并不清楚.Jaynes-Cummings模型被用来描述光场与原子间相互作用.用concurrence下限来计算纠缠度.模拟的结果表明纠缠度随着退相干系数的增加或平均光子数的减少而增加.当激发态的概率在0至0.1之间,纠缠度随着的概率增加而减少;当激发态的概率在0.1至1之间,纠缠度随着的概率增加而增加.无论以上参数取何值,纠缠度都随着时间而减少.     

Intrinsic decoherence of entanglement of a single quantized field interacting with atwo-level atom

How the mean photon number, the probability of excited state and intrinsic decoherence coefficient influence the time evolution of entanglement is unknown, when a single-mode quantized optic field and a two-level atom coupling system is governed by Milburn equation. The Jaynes-Cummings model is considered. A lower bound of concurrence is proposed to calculate the entanglement. Simulation results indicate that the entanglement of system increases following the increasing of intrinsic decoherence coefficient or the decreasing of the mean photon number. Besides that, the entanglement of system decreases, while the probability of exited state increases from 0 to 0.1, and increases, while the probability of exited state increases from 0.1 to 1.     

Entanglement Dynamics and Bell Violations of Two Atoms in Tavis-Cummings Model with Phase Decoherence

Considering the dipole-dipole coupling intensity between two atoms and the field in the Fock state, the entanglement dynamics between two atoms that are initially entangled in the system of two two-level atoms coupled to a single mode cavity in the presence of phase decoherence has been investigated. The two-atom entanglement appears with periodicity without considering phase decoherence, however, the phase decoherence causes the decay of entanglement between two atoms, with the increasing of the phase decoherence coefficient, the entanglement will quickly become a constant value, which is affected by the two-atom initial state. Meanwhile the two-atom quantum state will forever stay in the maximal entangled state when the initial state is proper even in the presence of phase decoherence. On the other hand, the Bell violation and the entanglement do not satisfy the monotonous relation, a large Bell violation implies the presence of a large amount of entanglement under certain conditions, while a large Bell violation corresponds to a little amount of entanglement in certain situations. However, the violation of Bell-CHSH inequality can reach the maximal value if two atoms are in the maximal entangled state, or vice versa.     

存在相位退相干时原子与光场相互作用的纠缠演化和保持

应用全量子理论研究了存在相位退相干时单模相干光场与一个二能级原子相互作用系统纠缠的时间演化规律;分别讨论了原子—光场耦合常数、光场的平均光子数以及失谐量的大小对场与原子纠缠的影响.结果表明:随着原子—光场耦合常数的增大和光场平均光子数的增加,系统纠缠的振荡频率都会明显增大.不存在相位退相干时,纠缠的时间演化明显受到失谐量的影响,若选取适当的失谐量,系统的纠缠可长时间保持在最大纠缠态.若考虑相位退相干的影响,则在共振情况下系统纠缠的时间演化是一个逐渐衰减的过程,且最终衰减到零;但若存在适当的失谐量,则在初始一段时间内系统的纠缠也是一个波动幅度逐渐衰减的过程,但随着时间的演化,失谐量抵消了相位退相干的影响,使系统的纠缠不再衰减到零.如果增大失谐量,纠缠在初始一段时间内波动的幅度会相应的减小,并且纠缠趋于稳定的时间也随着失谐量的增大而缩短;当失谐量适当时,系统可保持在纠缠相对较大的状态而无消纠缠态.     

耦合系数对Tavis-Cummings模型中三体纠缠态纠缠量的影响

研究了两个全同二能级原子与单模场相互作用的Tavis-Cummings模型中的量子纠缠.在两原子初始时处于基态,光场处于单光子状态下,得出体系状态演化为近似W纠缠态.结果表明:两原子耦合量越大,三体纠缠态中两两纠缠量和三体纠缠量越小,其中两原子间纠缠量和三体纠缠量减小的程度更大,并且三体纠缠态中两两纠缠量和三体纠缠量的振荡周期也相应减小.     

Dynamical Creation of Entanglement and Steady Entanglement Between Two Spatially Separated Λ-Type Atoms

We report possibility of generating entanglement and steady entanglement between two identical atoms in free space with a very natural way when their spatial separation is on the order of wavelength or less. We show a dynamical creation of entanglement and steady entanglement due to the radiative coupling with different separable initial atomic states and study the entanglement properties about this atomic subsystem. Not only the creation of steady state entanglement is decided by the initial atomic states, but also the magnitude of the entanglement and the steady state entanglement are found to be strongly dependent on the initial states. We derive a master equation for the atomic subspace and solve it analytically to show how the spontaneous emission from the two atoms system induces entanglement and steady entanglement, the crossing coupling terms in master equation can enhance the entanglement value.     

Dynamics of a Moving Two-Level Atom Under the Influence of Intrinsic Decoherence

We present a general and fascinating problem of quantum entanglement (QE) that is calculated with the help of quantum Fisher information (QFI) and von Neumann entropy (VNE) for moving two-level atomic systems. We calculate numerically the temporal evolution of the state vector of the entire system under the influence of intrinsic decoherence for a moving two-level atom. We demonstrate that the phase shifts of an estimator parameter, intrinsic decoherence, and the atomic motion play an important and prominent role during the time evolution of the atomic system. We observe that there is a monotonic relation between the atomic quantum Fisher information (QFI) and quantum entanglement (QE) in the absence of atomic motion. We also show that at the revival time the local maximum values of QFI decreases gradually. A periodic behavior of QFI is observed in the presence of atomic motion, which becomes more important and remarkable for two-level atomic systems. Moreover, the atomic quantum Fisher information and entanglement demonstrate an opposite response during the time evolution in the presence of atomic motion. We show that the evolution of entanglement is more susceptible to the intrinsic decoherence; a considerable change occurs in the degree of entanglement when the intrinsic decoherence parameter increases. Intrinsic decoherence in the atom–field interaction represses the nonclassical effects of the atomic systems. Both the entanglement and the quantum Fisher information saturate to their lower levels for longer time scales in the presence of intrinsic decoherence. For larger values of intrinsic decoherence, the sudden death of entanglement is observed.     

Entanglement Dynamics in a Model Tripartite Quantum System

A Λ-type atom interacting with two radiation fields exhibits electromagnetically induced transparency and other nonclassical effects that appear in the entanglement dynamics of the atomic subsystem and in appropriate field observables. Both EIT and field-atom entanglement are important for quantum information processing. We investigate the roles played by specific initial field states, detuning parameters, field nonlinearities and intensity-dependent field-atom couplings on EIT and the entanglement between subsystems. Departure from coherence of the initial field states produces significant effects. We investigate these aspects in a model that exhibits the salient features of entangled tripartite systems. For initial photon-added coherent states, collapses and revivals of the atomic subsystem von Neumann entropy appear as the intensity parameter varies over a narrow range of values. These features could be useful in enabling entanglement.     

Spatial decoherence factor via the qubit-field interaction

We analyze the time evolution of an initial spatial coherence for a two level atom whose internal degrees of freedom interact with a single mode of a cavity field. When the qubit-field subsystem is taken as an environment, the translational dynamics experiences a decoherence process which may be encoded in a decoherence factor D. We find that the field statistics affects D through the alternative paths the system-environment may follow along their entanglement, while eventual field phase properties give rise to an imaginary part of D which is related to the atomic translation. From the decoherence perspective, we analyze the relation between the atomic momentum and the imaginary part of the atomic spatial density matrix, and some considerations on its asymptotic behavior are brought into question at the conclusion of the paper.     

压缩态光场变耦合系数双光子J-C模型性质

讨论了初始光场为压缩态、原子-光场耦合系数随时间变化情形下双光子过程J-C模型的量子统计性质。具体研究了双光子过程中原子布居数反转、光场的压缩等随时间的演化性质,讨论了初始光场的压缩系数、压缩相位及耦合系数变化快慢对这些性质的影响。研究结果表明,初始光场的压缩系数增大,崩塌和回复的频率增大,回复值减小。当原子-光场耦合系数变化缓慢时,崩塌和回复现象被延迟。而光场逐渐失去压缩性质;而当耦合系数变化较快时,崩塌和回复现象被加速,而光场压缩量将产生振荡,压缩效应将反复出现。     

Entropy growth and degradation of entanglement due to phase decoherence in ion traps

We study how phase decoherence through intrinsic decoherence leads to growing entropy and a strong degradation of the maximum generated entanglement as a measure of information content of ionic state due to ion-laser interaction with a trapped ion. We calculate the partial entropy of the particle (atom or trapped ion) and field subsystems as well as the total entropy. The total entropy is shown to increase with time. Thus, the partial field or atomic entropy cannot be used as a direct measure of the particle–field entanglement. We find that, at least qualitatively, the difference between the total entropy and the sum of field and atom partial entropies can be used as an entanglement measure, when compared with an established entanglement measure based on the negativity of the eigenvalues of the partially transposed density matrix. We find a very strong sensitivity of the maximum generated entanglement on the decoherence and the chosen intrinsic decoherence parameter.     

Decoherence Effect in An Anisotropic Two-Qubit Heisenberg XYZ Model with Inhomogeneous Magnetic Field

Taking the decoherence effect into account, the entanglement evolution of a two-qubit anisotropic Heisenberg XYZ chain in the presence of inhomogeneous magnetic field is investigated. The time evolution of concurrence is studied for the initial state cos θ｜01） ＋ sin θ｜10） at zero temperature. The influences of inhomogeneous magnetic field, anisotropic parameter and decoherence on entanglement dynamic are addressed in detail, and a concurrence formula of the steady state is found. It is shown that the entanglement sudden death （ESD） and entanglement sudden birth （ESB） appear with the decoherence effect, and the stable concurrence depends on the uniform magnetic field B, anisotropic parameter △ and environment coupling strength γ, which is independent of different initial states and nonuniform magnetic field b.     

Quantum entanglement of the binomial field interacting with a cascade three-level atom beyond the rotating wave approximation

In this paper, the quantum entanglement between a single mode binomial field and a cascade three-level atom is calculated mechanically without the rotating wave approximation. The numerical results indicate that the quantum entanglement at the first few periods is reduced notably due to the fact that the atom is initially in the superposition state. With increasing field parameter , the period of the entanglement evolution becomes obvious and the quantum decoherence phenomenon emerges in a short time.     

The effect of environment induced pure decoherence on the generalized Jaynes-Cummings model

We have studied the effect of environment induced pure decoherence on the generalized Jaynes-Cummings model (JCM). This generalized JCM is introduced to take into account both atom-field interaction and a class of spin-orbit interactions in the same framework. For generalized JCM with atom-field interaction, it is shown that along with the suppression of the oscillatory behaviour of the atomic and field variables, in the steady state, atomic energy is transferred to the field or vice versa through the dressed state coherence depending on the initial condition of the atom-field system and the model under consideration. It is also shown that initial Poissonian field acquires a sub-Poissonian character in the steady state and thus all the nonclassical properties are not erased by the decoherence in JCM. An interesting effect of this decoherence mechanism is that it affects the population and coherence properties of the individual subsystem in a different way. As an example of generalized JCM with spin-orbit interaction, the dynamics of spin of the hydrogen atom in a magnetic field is studied to show the effect of decoherence.     

运动强度相关耦合J-C模型中的熵交换和纠缠

考虑一个运动的二能级原子与单模热光场强度相关耦合,采用量子约化熵研究原子和场的约化熵变化规律、原子与场的熵交换,用共生纠缠度研究原子与场的纠缠。并借助于数值计算方法,详细分析了在强度相关耦合J-C模型中,原子初态、热光场的平均光子数以及场模结构参数对熵交换和纠缠的影响。结果表明原子与光场的熵交换和纠缠均周期性地演化。选择适当的原子初态,可以使得原子的约化熵和光场的约化熵完全交换,这意味着原子与光场反相关。此外,场模结构参数增加导致熵交换的幅度减小,周期缩短。原子与热光场的纠缠随平均光子数的增加而减弱。     

Tavis-Cummings模型中三体纠缠态纠缠量的演化特性

研究两个全同二能级原子与单模场相互作用的Tavis-Cummings模型中的量子纠缠.在场和两原子初始分别为真空场和纠缠或非纠缠状态下，得出体系状态将演化为三体近似W纠缠态.通过对纠缠量的计算得出：该三体近似W纠缠态纠缠量的演化特性将随三体所处的初始状态、原子间及原子与场间的耦合系数、失谐程度、原子反转粒子数的变化而变化.值得一提的是可得出原子间耦合作用强度对纠缠量的非线性效应，并且纠缠量展现出与原子反转粒子数一致的周期振荡现象. 关键词： W纠缠态 纠缠量 反转粒子数     

J-C模型和原子-腔光力学系统中的纠缠交换

基于Jaynes-Cummings模型和原子-腔光力学系统,研究了该系统中原子与机械模之间的纠缠交换机制,讨论了两个原子的相干角和腔场与机械模之间的耦合系数对原子与机械模之间纠缠的影响。一个原子与机械模之间的最大纠缠随着该原子相干角的增大而减小,另一个原子与机械模之间的纠缠存在突然产生和突然死亡现象,并且最大纠缠随该原子相干角的增大而增大。根据这一结果可以制备原子与机械模之间的最大纠缠态,这为纠缠调控提供了一种新的方式。     

Control of entanglement between two atoms by the Stark shift

Considering a quantum model consisting of two effective two-level atoms and a single-mode cavity,this paper investigates the entanglement dynamics between the two atoms,and studies the effect of the Stark shift on the entanglement.The results show that,on the one hand the atom-atom entanglement evolves periodically with time and the periods are affected by the Stark shift;on the other hand,the two atoms are not disentangled at any time when the Stark shift is considered,and for large values of the Stark shift parameter,the two atoms can remain in a stationary entangled state.In addition,for the initially partially entangled atomic state,the atom-atom entanglement can be greatly enhanced due to the presence of Stark shift.These properties show that the Stark shift can be used to control entanglement between two atoms.     

Entanglement and Bell violation with phase decoherence or dissipation

The system of an atom couples to two distinct optical cavities with decoherence is studied by making use of a dynamical algebraic method. We adopt the concurrence to characterize the entanglement between atom and cavities or between two optical cavities in the presence of the phase decoherence or dissipation. It is found that the entanglement between atom and cavities can be controlled by adjusting the detuning parameter. We show that even if the atom is initially prepared in a maximally mixed state, it can also entangle the two mode cavity fields. Finally, the Bell violation of the cavity fields is discussed, and it is shown that both the detuning and decoherence can deteriorate the maximal amount of violation of Bell inequality for two mode cavity fields during the evolution.