Entanglement Distillation for Mixed States Using Particle Statistics

We extend the idea of entanglement concentration protocol for pure states （Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 187903） to the case of entanglement distillation for mixed states. The scheme works only with particle statistics and local operations, without the need of any other interactions. We show that the maximally entangled state can be distilled out when the initial state is pure, otherwise the entanglement distilled depends on the off-diagonal element of density matrix of the initial state. Because of the requirement for density matrix, the entanglement distilled is always less than one, and this result is the same for both fermionic and bosonic particles. The distillation efficiency is a product of the diagonal elements of the initial state, it takes the maximum 50%, the same as that in the case for pure states.We extend the idea of entanglement concentration protocol for pure states （Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 187903） to the case of entanglement distillation for mixed states. The scheme works only with particle statistics and local operations, without the need of any other interactions. We show that the maximally entangled state can be distilled out when the initial state is pure, otherwise the entanglement distilled depends on the off-dlagonal element of density matrix of the initial state. Because of the requirement for density matrix, the entanglement distilled is always less than one, and this result is the same for both fermionic and bosonic particles. The distillation effciency is a product of the diagonal elements of the initial state, it takes the maximum 50%, the same as that in the case for pure states.     

Generation of GHZ States via Deterministic Entanglement Concentration

We present the generation of six-particle Greenberger Horne-Zeilinger （GHZ） states via deterministic entanglement concentration and generalize the scheme to the case of 2N particles. We show that arbitrary 2N-particle GHZ states can be obtained with certain probability via entanglement concentration. This may provide a new perspective for the preparation of multi-particle GHZ states. This study is also an exploration on the theory of deterministic entanglement concentration.     

Maximal entanglement from photon-added nonlinear coherent states via unitary beam splitters

In this paper, we construct photon-added f-deformed coherent states （PAf-DCSs） for nonlinear bosonic fields by discussing Klauder＇s minimal set of conditions required to obtain coherent states. Using this set of nonlinear states, we propose a very useful scheme for generating the maximal amount of entanglement via unitary beam splitters for different strength regimes of the input field α, deformation q and excitation number m. Therefore, the possibility to create highly entangled states and to control the entanglement is proposed. Moreover, the condition for a maximal and separable output beam state is obtained. Finally, we examine the statistical properties of the PAf-DCSs through the Mandel parameter and exploit a connection between this quantity and the behavior variation of the output state entanglement. Our result may open new perspectives in different tasks of quantum information processing.     

Distributed wireless quantum communication networks

The distributed wireless quantum communication network （DWQCN） ha~ a distributed network topology and trans- mits information by quantum states. In this paper, we present the concept of the DWQCN and propose a system scheme to transfer quantum states in the DWQCN. The system scheme for transmitting information between any two nodes in the DWQCN includes a routing protocol and a scheme for transferring quantum states. The routing protocol is on-demand and the routing metric is selected based on the number of entangled particle pairs. After setting up a route, quantum tele- portation and entanglement swapping are used for transferring quantum states. Entanglement swapping is achieved along with the process of routing set up and the acknowledgment packet transmission. The measurement results of each entan- glement swapping are piggybacked with route reply packets or acknowledgment packets. After entanglement swapping, a direct quantum link between source and destination is set up and quantum states are transferred by quantum teleportation. Adopting this scheme, the measurement results of entanglement swapping do not need to be transmitted specially, which decreases the wireless transmission cost and transmission delay.     

The decoherence of quantum entanglement and teleportation in Bell-diagonal states

We study the dynamics of entanglement and teleportation in Bell-diagonal states. Using the concepts of concurrence and fidelity, the analytical expressions of the entanglement, the output entanglement and the average fidelity with decoherence are obtained for this model. We discover a class of initial states in which the output entanglement and the average fidelity are destroyed by decoherence. The quality of teleportation depends on the system parameters and time.     

Nonlinear Interaction and Entanglement Transfer from SU（1,1） Coherent State to Mixed Atoms

For nonlinear interactions with different forms of intensity-dependent coupling, entanglement transfer from the correlated two-mode SU（1,1） coherent states （SCS） to the initially separable and mixed atoms is investigated. It is found that suitable intensity-dependent coupling can enhance the entanglement transfer and make the atomic entanglement evolve periodically especially for the initially mixed atomic states. For SCS, the entanglement between the two modes is strengthened with the increase of the photon number difference （PND） between the two modes of the fields. When PND is odd, the entanglement between the atoms is less than that when PND is even.     

A new class of states of reversible entanglement manipulation under positive partial transpose operations

We first study the reversibility for a class of states under the operations which completely preserve the positivity of partial transpose(PPT) and show that the entanglement cost is equal to the distillable entanglement for a rank-two mixed state on the 4 4 antisymmetric subspace under PPT operations. By using a similar method in finding the irreversibility,we also find that the value of a new efficiently computable additive lower bound Eη(ρ) for the asymptotic PPT-relative entropy of entanglement presented in [Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 180506(2017)] is equal to the regularized Rains' bound and an upper bound EN(ρ) for distillable entanglement for these states. Furthermore, we find states on the symmetric subspace satisfying the relation mentioned above, generalize the antisymmetric states and symmetric states in higher dimensions, and give a specific value for distillable entanglement and entanglement cost for these states under the PPT operations.     

Accessible Information for Equally-Distant Partially-Entangled Alphabet State Resource

We have proposed a quantum system with equally-distant partially-entangled alphabet states which has the minimal mutual overlap and the highly distinguishability,these quantum states are used as the “signal states” of the quantum communication.We have also constructed the positive operator-valued measure for these “signal states” and discussed their entanglement properties and measurement of cntanglement.We calculate the accessible information for these alphabet states and show that the accessible information is closely related to the entanglement of the “signal states”:the higher the entanglement of the “signal states”,the better the accessible information of the quantum system,and the accessible information reaches its maximal value when the alphabet states have their maximal entanglement.     

Preparation and Decoherence of Two-Atom Entangled States in a Dissipative Cavity

We present a scheme for generating four pairs of two-atom Einstein Podolsky-Rosen （EPR） states using the simultaneous interaction of the two atoms with a single-mode cavity field under a large detuning condition. The influence of cavity dissipation on the prepared EPR states is investigated by means of the superoperator method and the state fidelity. It is shown that some kinds of the prepared EPR states are robust against cavity dissipation and the intensity of the field, and maintain their entanglement invariance, and the others are fragile and completely destroyed by the action of cavity dissipation and the intensity of the field in the long-time limit. Decoherence time of the fragile entangled states is extremely small for a typical cavity-QED experimental data.     

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.     

Detecting some three-qubit MUB diagonal entangled states via nonlinear optimal entanglement witnesses

The three qubits mutually unbiased bases (MUB) diagonal density matrices with maximally entanglement in Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) basis are studied. These are a natural generalization of Bell-state diagonal density matrices. The linearity of positive partial transpose (PPT) conditions allows one to specify completely PPT states or feasible region (FR) which form a polygon, where the projection of the feasible region to some two dimensional planes has lead to better visualization. To reveal the PPT entangled regions of these density matrices, we manipulate some appropriate optimal non-decomposable linear entanglement witnesses (EWs) as the envelope of family of linear optimal non-decomposable EWs. These nonlinear EWs are nonlinear functional of MUB diagonal states, so that they are nonnegative valued over all separable, but they are negative valued over some PPT entangled MUB diagonal states. Even though, these nonlinear EWs can not separate completely, the PPT entanglement region from separable one, but however in special cases they lead to necessary and sufficient condition for separability. To support the evidence, we study three categories for special choices of parameters in density matrices, and using the nonlinear EWs we can distinguish the region of PPT entangled states and separable states, completely. At the end some numerical simulations are provided to show the practical applicability of these nonlinear EWs in detecting some PPT entangled MUB diagonal states.     

Entanglement Degree of Finite-Dimensional Pair Coherent States

We study in detail the entanglement degree of finite-dimensional pair coherent states (PCSs) in terms of different parameters involved in the coherent states. Since these states are a type of correlated two-mode states in finite dimension, we use the D concurrence and linear entropy to quantify their amount of entanglement. We show that the maximum entanglement can be obtained for two and threedimensional (finite-dimensional) PCSs, and states with higher dimensions cannot attain this limit. We generalize the discussion to a superposition of two states of this class and give the maximum entangled states for even and odd finite-dimensional PCSs. In addition, we consider the entanglement degree of nonlinear finite-dimensional PCSs and survey the maximality condition. Finally, we discuss the entanglement for a class of mixed states defined as a statistical mixture of two pure finite-dimensional PCSs. Our observations may have important implications in exploiting these states in quantum information theory.     

利用交叉克尔非线性效应实现纠缠转移

提出了一种基于交叉克尔非线性效应的纠缠态转移方案.利用该方案可以将离散变量光场态之间的纠缠关系转移到连续变量光场态(相干态)上.通过适当设置初始相干态的振幅，该方案可以使转移后的纠缠相干态处于最大纠缠态. 关键词： 交叉克尔效应 纠缠转移 纠缠相干态     

Deterministic entanglement of photons in two superconducting microwave resonators

Quantum entanglement, one of the defining features of quantum mechanics, has been demonstrated in a variety of nonlinear spinlike systems. Quantum entanglement in linear systems has proven significantly more challenging, as the intrinsic energy level degeneracy associated with linearity makes quantum control more difficult. Here we demonstrate the quantum entanglement of photon states in two independent linear microwave resonators, creating N-photon NOON states (entangled states |N0> + |0N>) as a benchmark demonstration. We use a superconducting quantum circuit that includes Josephson qubits to control and measure the two resonators, and we completely characterize the entangled states with bipartite Wigner tomography. These results demonstrate a significant advance in the quantum control of linear resonators in superconducting circuits.     

Experimental detection of quantum entanglement

In this review, we introduce some methods for detecting or measuring entanglement. Several nonlinear entanglement witnesses are presented. We derive a series of Bell inequalities whose maximally violations for any multipartite qubit states can be calculated by using our formulas. Both the nonlinear entanglement witnesses and the Bell inequalities can be operated experimentally. Thus they supply an effective way for detecting entanglement. We also introduce some experimental methods to measure the entanglement of formation, and the lower bound of the convex-roof extension of negativity.     

Two-Photon Entanglement in a Two-Mode Supersymmetric Model

We will study entangled two-photon states generated from a two-mode supersymmetric model and quantify degree of entanglement in terms of the entropy of entanglement. The influences of the nonlinearity on the degree of entanglement is also examined, and it is shown that amount of entanglement increase with increasing the nonlinear coupling constant. PACS numbers: 03.67.-a, 03.67.Mn.     

Cloaks for suppression or enhancement of scattering of diffuse photon density waves

In this paper we investigate the entanglement dynamics between two two-level atoms interacting with two coherent fields in two spatially separated cavities which are filled with a Kerr-like medium. We examine the effect of nonlinear medium on the dynamical properties of entanglement and atomic occupation probabilities in the case of even and odd deformed coherent states. The results show that the deformed fields play important roles in the evolution of entanglement. Also, the results demonstrate that entanglement sudden death, sudden birth and long-distance can be controlled by the deformation and nonlinear parameters.     

Entanglement Dynamics Induced by a Squeezed Coherent Cavity Coupled Nonlinearly with a Qubit and Filled with a Kerr-Like Medium

An analytical solution for a master equation describing the dynamics of a qubit interacting with a nonlinear Kerr-like cavity through intensity-dependent coupling is established. A superposition of squeezed coherent states is propped as the initial cavity field. The dynamics of the entangled qubit-cavity states are explored by negativity for different deformed function of the intensity-dependent coupling. We have examined the effects of the Kerr-like nonlinearity and the qubit-cavity detuning as well as the phase cavity damping on the generated entanglement. The intensity-dependent coupling increases the sensitivity of the generated entanglement to the phase-damping. The stability and the strength of the entanglement are controlled by the Kerr-like nonlinearity, the qubit-cavity detuning, and the initial cavity non-classicality. These physical parameters enhance the robustness of the qubit-cavity entanglement against the cavity phase-damping. The high initial cavity non-classicality enhances the robustness of the qubit-cavity entanglement against the phase-damping effect.     

Amplification of entangled states of squeezed light

Two amplification schemes are considered for entangled squeezed states of light, including an Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen entangled state of continuous variables (EPR pair): propagation in a nonlinear medium and reflection from a cavity. Both schemes make use of a parametric process that can be implemented in a periodic nonlinear medium. The existence of an integral of motion makes it possible to amplify an entangled state of light while preserving the initial entanglement. To analyze the cavity-based scheme, a master equation is derived for the density matrix of the field inside the cavity. The feasibility of amplification that preserves entanglement of an EPR pair is demonstrated for this scheme.