多个量子节点确定性纠缠的建立

量子纠缠是一种重要的量子资源,在多个空间分离的量子存储器间建立确定性的量子纠缠,然后在用户控制的时刻将所存储的量子纠缠转移到量子信道中进行信息的分发和传送,这对于实现量子信息网络是至关重要的.本文介绍了用光学参量放大器制备与铷原子D1吸收线对应的非经典光场,而且在三个空间分离的原子系综中确定性量子纠缠的产生、存储和转移.利用电磁感应透明光和原子相互作用的原理,将制备的多组分光场纠缠态模式映射到三个远距离的原子系综以建立原子自旋波之间的纠缠.然后,存储在原子系综中的纠缠态通过三个量子通道,纠缠态的量子噪声被转移到三束空间分离的正交纠缠光场.三束释放的光场间纠缠的存在验证了该系统具有保持多组分纠缠的能力.这个方案实现了三个量子节点间的纠缠,并且可以直接扩展到具有更多节点的量子网络,为未来实现大型量子网络通信奠定了基础.     

Thermal entanglement and teleportation in a three-qubit Heisenberg XXZ model with Dzyaloshinski--Moriya anisotropic antisymmetric interaction

This paper investigates the thermal pairwise entanglement of a three-qubit Heisenberg XXZ chain in the presence of the Dzyaloshinski--Moriya (DM) anisotropic antisymmetric interaction and quantum teleportation when using the Heisenberg chain as a channel. The entanglement dependences on the DM interaction and temperature are given in detail. It obtains the relation between the concurrence and average fidelity, and shows that the same concurrence can lead different average fidelities. Moreover, it finds the thermally entangled states which do not violate the Bell inequalities, and can still be used for quantum teleportation.     

Two-Player 2 × 2 Quantum Game in Spin System

In this work, we study the payoffs of quantum Samaritan’s dilemma played with the thermal entangled state of XXZ spin model in the presence of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) interaction. We discuss the effect of anisotropy parameter, strength of DM interaction and temperature on quantum Samaritan’s dilemma. It is shown that although increasing DM interaction and anisotropy parameter generate entanglement, players payoffs are not simply decided by entanglement and depend on other game components such as strategy and payoff measurement. In general, Entanglement and Alice’s payoff evolve to a relatively stable value with anisotropy parameter, and develop to a fixed value with DM interaction strength, while Bob’s payoff changes in the reverse direction. It is noted that the augment of Alice’s payoff compensates for the loss of Bob’s payoff. For different strategies, payoffs have different changes with temperature. Our results and discussions can be analogously generalized to other 2 × 2 quantum static games in various spin models.     

Thermal entanglement and teleportation of a thermally mixed entangled state of a Heisenberg chain through a Werner state

The thermal entanglement and teleportation of a thermally mixed entangled state of a two-qubit Heisenberg XXX chain under the Dzyaloshinski Moriya （DM） anisotropic antisymmetric interaction through a noisy quantum channel given by a Werner state is investigated. The dependences of the thermal entanglement of the teleported state on the DM coupling constant, the temperature and the entanglement of tbe noisy quantum channel are studied }n detail for both the ferromagnetic and the antiferromagnetic cases. The result shows that a minimum entanglement of the noisy quantum channel must be provided in order to realize the entanglement teleportation. The values of fidelity of the teleported state are also studied for these two cases. It is found that under certain conditions, we can transfer an initial state with a better fidelity than that for any classical communication protocol.     

Quantum Key Distribution in Large Scale Quantum Network Assisted by Classical Routing Information

Recently, small-scale Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) networks have been demonstrated and continuously operated in field environment. However, nodes of these QKD networks are less than 10 nodes. When the scale and structure of these networks becomes large and complex, such networks will subject to problem of intractable routing selection and limited transmission distance. We present a novel quantum network model and the corresponding protocol to solve these problems. The proposed quantum network model integrates classical communication network with quantum key distribution layer. Nodes in this quantum network model are divided into communication nodes for classical communication and quantum nodes for quantum key distribution. We use atomic ensembles to create entangled photons inside quantum nodes. Quantum repeaters are used to establish entanglement between remote quantum nodes so the maximum distribution distance of entangled photons can be extended. The main idea is to establish an appropriate key distribution path in the quantum key distribution layer based on the routing information obtained by the upper classical communication network. After the entanglement has been established between remote quantum nodes, these nodes will use the Ekert91 or BBM92 protocol to generate secret keys shared between each other. Then, these keys can be used to ensure the security of communication in the classical communication network.     

Teleportation via a mixture of a two qubit subsystem of a N-qubit W and GHZ state

We study the thermal entanglement in the two-qubit Heisenberg XXZ model with the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) interaction, and teleport an unknown state using the model in thermal equilibrium state as a quantum channel. The effects of DM interaction, including D_x and D_z interaction, the anisotropy and temperature on the entanglement and fully entangled fraction are considered. What deserves mentioning here is that for the antiferromagnetic case, the D_x interaction can be more helpful for increasing the entanglement and critical temperature than D_z, but this cannot for teleportation.     

Entanglement purification for memory nodes in a quantum network

The entanglement between quantum memory nodes is a prerequisite in a quantum network, and the diamond nitrogen-vacancy(NV) center is a promising candidate serving as a quantum memory node. Here, we investigate the possibility of achieving an entanglement purification protocol(EPP) for entangled NV centers in distant diamonds. To construct the EPP, we design a nondestructive parity-check detector(PCD) utilizing an auxiliary polarization-entangled photon pair, which makes our EPP less time consuming and insensitive to the phase fluctuation of the optical path length. The satisfied fidelity of an NV center pair after purification and efficiency of obtaining a purified NV center pair with our EPP can be obtained with current experimental techniques in the realistic condition. This EPP is useful for a quantum network in which NV centers are used as quantum memory nodes.     

在不同初态下Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya相互作用及内禀退相干对海森伯系统的量子纠缠的影响

研究了存在内禀退相干时,对于不同的系统初态,具有DM相互作用和各向异性的三粒子XXZ海森伯模型的对纠缠动力学特性.得出了一些结论:系统的对纠缠度与各向异性参数?无关,但内禀退相干对系统的纠缠有明显的抑制作用;在内禀退相干存在时,若系统初态为纠缠态,选择合适的DM相互作用的参数,系统的对纠缠有一个非零的稳定值;系统初态为分离态时,系统的对纠缠会随时间震荡衰减,并且每次震荡会出现纠缠突然死亡现象,系统的对纠缠最终达到解纠缠状态.因此,选择合适的系统初态和DM相互作用参数可以有效地控制系统的对纠缠.     

Entanglement in One-Dimensional Random XY Spin Chain with Dzyaloshinskii--Moriya Interaction

The impurities of exchange couplings, external magnetic fields and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya （DM） interaction considered as Gaussian distribution, and the entanglement in one-dimensional random XY spin systems is investigated by the method of solving the different spin-spin correlation functions and the average magnetization per spin. The entanglement dynamics at central locations of ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic chains have been studied by varying the three impurities and the strength of DM interaction. （i） For the ferromagnetic spin chain, the weak DM interaction can improve the amount of entanglement to a large value, and the impurities have the opposite effect on the entanglement below and above critical DM interaction. （ii） For the antiferromagnetic spin chain, DM interaction can enhance the entanglement to a steady value. Our results imply that DM interaction strength, the impurity and exchange couplings （or magnetic field） play competing roles in enhancing quantum entanglement.     

Thermal Entanglement in a Three-Qubit Quantum System with DM Interaction

Entanglement properties of Heisenberg spin chain has received much attention in the context of quantum information. The generation and the manipulation of entangled states especially thermal entanglement have been extensively studied in the Heisenberg models. In this article, we studied the thermal entanglement in a three-qubit spin system. It is found that the DM interaction along the Z axis can give rise to a thermal entanglement.     

Entanglement dynamics and Bell violation of three-qubit states coupled to an XY spin chain with Dzyaloshinski–Moriya interaction

We investigate the entanglement dynamics and Bell violation of three-qubit quantum states under an environment consisting of an XY spin chain with Dzyaloshinski–Moriya (DM) interaction. From the results, we find that the entanglement dynamics depends not only on the DM interaction, the magnetic field, and the anisotropy parameter but also on the number of the freedom degrees of the environment. The decoherence-free subspaces of our model have been identified and the Bell violation of quantum states is also discussed.     

Multipartite entanglement in the interaction system between a single-mode microwave cavity field and superconducting charge qubits

This paper proposes a method of generating multipartite entanglement through using d.c. superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUID) inside a standing wave cavity. In this scheme, the d.c. SQUID works in the charge region. It is shown that, a large number of important multipartite entangled states can be generated by a controllable interaction between a cavity field and qubits. It is even possible to produce entangled states involving different cavity modes based on the measurement of charge qubits states. After such superpositions states are created, the interaction can be switched off by the classical magnetic field through the SQUID, and there is no information transfer between the cavity field and the charge qubits.     

基于纠缠态的量子通信网络的量子信道建立速率模型

针对基于纠缠态的量子通信网络, 提出了网络模型. 基于网络模型, 首先分析了基础链路的量子信道建立速率. 然后根据基础链路的量子信道建立速率, 针对不同的量子信道建立方法, 对中继长链路上的量子信道建立速率进行分析, 得到在逐点方法和分段方法下所对应的量子信道建立速率. 最后, 利用逾渗模型, 对大规模纠缠态量子通信网络中任意两点间的量子信道建立速率进行分析, 推导出n个节点量子通信网络中, 量子信道建立速率为Ω (1/n).     

Quantum Communication with Continuous Variables

Many quantum communication schemes rely on the resource of entanglement. For example, quantum teleportation is the transfer of arbitrary quantum states through a classical communication channel using shared entanglement. Entanglement, however, is in general not easy to produce on demand. The bottom line of this work is that a particular kind of entanglement, namely that based on continuous quantum variables, can be created relatively easily. Only squeezers and beam splitters are required to entangle arbitrarily many electromagnetic modes. Similarly, other relevant operations in quantum communication protocols become feasible in the continuous‐variable setting. For instance, measurements in the maximally entangled basis of arbitrarily many modes can be accomplished via linear optics and efficient homodyne detections. In the first two chapters, some basics of quantum optics and quantum information theory are presented. These results are then needed in Chapter III, where we characterize continuous‐variable entanglement and show how to make it. The members of a family of multi‐mode states are found to be truly multi‐party entangled with respect to all their modes. These states also violate multi‐party inequalities imposed by local realism, as we demonstrate for some members of the family. Further, we discuss how to measure and verify multi‐party continuous‐variable entanglement. Various quantum communication protocols based on the continuous‐variable entangled states are discussed and developed in Chapter IV. These include the teleportation of entanglement (entanglement swapping) as a test for genuine quantum teleportation. It is shown how to optimize the performance of continuous‐variable entanglement swapping. We highlight the similarities and differences between continuous‐variable entanglement swapping and entanglement swapping with discrete variables. Chapter IV also contains a few remarks on quantum dense coding, quantum error correction, and entanglement distillation with continuous variables, and in addition a review of quantum cryptographic schemes based on continuous variables. Finally, in Chapter V, we consider a multi‐party generalization of quantum teleportation. This so‐called telecloning means that arbitrary quantum states are transferred not only to a single receiver, but to several. However, due to the quantum mechanical no‐cloning theorem, arbitrary quantum states cannot be perfectly copied. We present a protocol that enables telecloning of arbitrary coherent states with the optimal quality allowed by quantum theory. The entangled states needed in this scheme are again producible with squeezed light and beam splitters. Although the telecloning scheme may also be used for "local'' cloning of coherent states, we show that cloning coherent states locally can be achieved in an optimal fashion without entanglement. It only requires a phase‐insensitive amplifier and beam splitters.     

Entangled quantum heat engines based on two two-spin systems with Dzyaloshinski-Moriya anisotropic antisymmetric interaction

We construct an entangled quantum heat engine (EQHE) based on two two-spin systems with Dzyaloshinski-Moriya (DM) anisotropic antisymmetric interaction. By applying the explanations of heat transferred and work performed at the quantum level in Kieu’s work [Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 140403 (2004)], the basic thermodynamic quantities, i.e., heat transferred, net work done in a cycle and efficiency of EQHE are investigated in terms of DM interaction and concurrence. The validity of the second law of thermodynamics is confirmed in the entangled system. It is found that there is a same efficiency for both antiferromagnetic and ferromagnetic cases, and the efficiency can be controlled in two manners: (1) only by spin-spin interaction J and DM interaction D; (2) only by the temperature T and concurrence C. In order to obtain a positive net work, we need not entangle all qubits in two two-spin systems and we only require the entanglement between qubits in a two-spin system not be zero. As the ratio of entanglement between qubits in two two-spin systems increases, the efficiency will approach infinitely the classical Carnot one. An interesting phenomenon is an abrupt transition of the efficiency when the entanglements between qubits in two two-spin systems are equal.     

连续变量六组份和八组份星型Cluster纠缠态光场产生系统

Cluster纠缠态是执行单向量子计算的基本资源。星型Cluster态可用于构建量子信息网络。以非简并光学参变放大器产生的双模压缩态光场为基础,设计了产生连续变量六组份和八组份星型Cluster纠缠态光场的实验方案,并推导了相应的量子不可分判据。计算结果指出,当量子不可分判据中的增益因子取为1时,需要一定的初始压缩度才能制备星型Cluster纠缠态;但当选取最佳增益因子时,极低的压缩也能产生星型纠缠。计算为实验系统设计提供了直接参考。     

Entanglement swapping between electromagnetic field modes and matter qubits

Scalable quantum networks require the capability to create, store and distribute entanglement among distant nodes (atoms, trapped ions, charge and spin qubits built on quantum dots, etc.) by means of photonic channels. We show how the entanglement between qubits and electromagnetic field modes allows generation of entangled states of remotely located qubits. We present analytical calculations of linear entropy and the density matrix for the entangled qubits for the system described by the Jaynes-Cummings model. We also discuss the influence of decoherence. The presented scheme is able to drive an initially separable state of two qubits into an highly entangled state suitable for quantum information processing.     

Symmetry entanglement in polarization biphoton optics

We study kinematic and dynamic ways of forming entangled states of quantum light fields due to their local and global polarization SU(2) symmetries. The kinematic entanglement is shown to be associated with particular polarization bases in the spaces of quantum states of multi-mode radiation, which are generated by the global SU(2) — symmetry. Dynamic entanglement is due to SU(2) symmetries of the Hamiltonians of the matter-radiation interaction. We also define some entanglement measures, which are related to characteristics of light depolarization. Applications of results obtained in biphoton optics are briefly discussed.     

Effect of Dzialoshinski-Moriya interaction on the quantum discord of a spin-star model

The effect of Dzialoshinski-Moriya (DM) interaction on the quantum discord and the thermal entanglement of the density matrix of a spin star model is investigated. Our results imply that the quantum correlation measured by quantum discord and thermal entanglement can be established between two surrounding parties both of which have no interaction with each other but interact with the central party independently. From the analysis, we find that the strong DM interaction can enhance the quantum discord and thermal entanglement while the external magnetic field with a large value and the high temperature can shrink them. Specially, the quantum discord is more robust than the thermal entanglement in the sense that the range of parameters in which the quantum discord takes a zero value is much smaller than that of the thermal entanglement.     

Critical entanglement and geometric phase of a two-qubitmodel with Dzyaloshinski--Moriya anisotropic interaction

We consider a two-qubit system described by the Heisenberg XY model with Dzyaloshinski--Moriya (DM) anisotropic interaction in a perpendicular magnetic field to investigate the relation between entanglement, geometric phase and quantum phase transition (QPT). It is shown that the DM interaction has an effect on the critical boundary. The combination of entanglement and geometric phase may characterize QPT completely. Their jumps mean that the occurrence of QPT and inversely the QPT at the critical point at least corresponds to a jump of one of them.