Engineering three-dimensional maximally entangled states for two modes in a bimodal cavity

An alternative scheme is proposed for engineering three-dimensional maximally entangled states for two modes of a superconducting microwave cavity. In this scheme, an appropriately prepared four-level atom is sent through a bimodal cavity. During its passing through the cavity, the atom is coupled resonantly with two cavity modes simultaneously and addressed by a classical microwave pulse tuned to the required transition. Then the atomic states are detected to collapse two modes onto a three-dimensional maximally entangled state. The scheme is different from the previous one in which two nonlocal cavities are used. A comparison between them is also made.     

Scheme for implementing frequency up-conversion between two collective atomic modes

This paper presents a scheme for realizing the frequency up-conversion between two collective atomic modes. In the scheme two atomic samples are coupled to a cavity mode. Under the large detuning condition, the two collective atomic modes are coupled via the virtual excitation of the cavity mode and the effective Hamiltonian corresponds to the frequency up-conversion. In the scheme the cavity mode is only virtually excited and thus the process is insensitive to cavity decay.     

两个腔模相关量子态的制备

提出一种制备两个腔模的相关量子态的方法。在本方法中,一系列的级联型三能级原子逐个地穿过两个初始时处于真空态的单模腔,然后,对这些原子进行控测。在一定条件下,两个腔模被制备到相关量子态。     

Generation of entangled coherent states for two cavity modes via resonant interaction with a V-type three-level atom

This paper proposes a scheme for the generation of entangled coherent states for two cavity modes. In the scheme a V-type three-level atom is sent through a two-mode cavity filled with a coherent field. After the atom cavity interaction and detection of the atomic state the cavity modes may evolve to a superposition of two-mode coherent states. As the scheme is based on resonant atom-cavity interaction, the required interaction time is short, which is important in view of the decoherence. Moreover, additional classical pulses are unnecessary before and after the atom-cavlty interaction.     

Extending the bandwidth-distance product for multimode fiber systems

A scheme is investigated by which the bandwidth-distance product of a multimode fiber can be easily extended to support nearly the same transmission rate as the single-mode system. The scheme is based on launching a limited number of modes into the multimode fiber, and extracting a limited number of modes at the receiving end. The power penalty imposed by the scheme and the dispersion performance are investigated. In particular, it is shown that the scheme carries about 6.5-dB penalty, and doubling of the bandwidth × distance value is demonstrated. The proposed scheme facilitates upgrading the existing networks wired with multimode fiber (e.g., FDDI) from hundreds of Mbps to Gbps transmission rates.     

Generation of NOON Sates for Two Atomic Samples Trapped in Two Distant Cavities

A scheme is proposed for generating NOON states for two atomic samples trapped in two distant cavities connected by a third cavity and optical fibers. In the scheme, all the atoms are always populated in the two degenerate ground states, so the atoms’ spontaneous emission can be omitted approximately. During the operation neither the cavity modes nor fiber modes are excited, which is important in view of decoherence. The scheme does not include projective measurement and the NOON state is generated deterministically.     

Preparation of W state in resonant bimodal cavity quantum electrodynamics

A scheme is proposed for generating entangled W states with four cavity modes. In this scheme, we send a V-type three-level atom through two identical two-mode cavities in succession. After the atom exits from the second cavity, the four cavity modes are prepared in the W state. On the other hand we can obtain three-atom W states by sending three V-type three-level atoms through a two-mode cavity in turn. The present scheme does not require conditional measurement, and it is easily generalized to preparing $2n$-mode W states and $n$-atom W states.     

Production of three-dimensional entanglement for two atoms with a single resonant interaction

A scheme is proposed for generating three-dimensional maximally entangled states for two atoms. In the scheme the atoms are trapped in a two-mode cavity. The scheme only requires a single resonant interaction of the atoms with the cavity modes. Therefore, the scheme is very simple and required interaction time is very short, which is important in view of decoherence.     

High-order angular response beamformer for vector sensors

A linear processing scheme for computing higher-order angular response modes of a vector sensor is described. Examples of modal response beampatterns are presented. The response modes form (in principle) a complete, orthonormal set that can be transformed into steerable sets of one or more directive beams. The linear processing scheme facilitates calibration of vector sensor measurement systems. The angular resolution that can be achieved with the new processing scheme is predicted to be (155/N_m) degrees, where N_m is the highest order of computed response mode, for the higher orders. The number of higher-order response modes appears to be limited only by the computational power available.     

Trapped ion quantum computation with transverse phonon modes

We propose a scheme to implement quantum gates on any pair of trapped ions immersed in a large linear crystal, using interaction mediated by the transverse phonon modes. Compared with the conventional approaches based on the longitudinal phonon modes, this scheme is much less sensitive to ion heating and thermal motion outside of the Lamb-Dicke limit thanks to the stronger confinement in the transverse direction. The cost for such a gain is only a moderate increase of the laser power to achieve the same gate speed. We also show how to realize arbitrary-speed quantum gates with transverse phonon modes based on simple shaping of the laser pulses.     

Room-Temperature Steady-State Entanglement in a Four-Mode Optomechanical System

Stationary entanglement in a four-mode optomechanical system,especially under room-temperature,is discussed.In this scheme,when the coupling strengths between the two target modes and the mechanical resonator are equal,the results cannot be explained by the Bogoliubov-mode-based scheme.This is related to the idea of quantummechanics-free subspace,which plays an important role when the thermal noise of the mechanical modes is considered.Significantly prominent steady-state entanglement can be available under room-temperature.     

利用交叉克尔效应制备六光子纠缠态

利用弱非线性的交叉克尔介质和对强相干探测场的动量积分零拍探测,呈现了一个关于制备六光子最大纠缠态的方案,如实现制备Dicke态和W态.在本方案中,只要相干探测光场的强度足够大时,对交叉克尔介质的非线性强度要求可以较弱,因而当前实验技术条件上均能满足本方案的要求.考虑到目前实验上实现单光子很是相对困难的,在信号模上仅用弱的相干光替代单光子源,从而进一步增强了本方案的实验可行性.     

一个传送原子纠缠态的新方案

本文提出一个通过原子和腔场相互作用传送未知原子纠缠态的新方案,并且成功概率为100%.在这个方案里,我们主要利用两个原子用来接受被传送的原子纠缠态以及一个双模腔作为量子通道.由于腔场的两个模具有不同的频率和正交极化,因此这两个模能够被区分,并且处于腔场的不同区域.原子和腔场通过J-C哈密顿量发生共振相互作用,当原子和其中一个模相互作用时,另外一个模不受影响.该方案既不需要贝尔态测量,也不需要任何操作重构纠缠初态.这个方案也可以推广到传送N个原子的纠缠态.     

Quantum Nondemolition Measurement of Photon-Number Distribution for a Two-Mode Field

We propose a quantum nondemolition measurement of the photon-number distribution for a two-mode cavity field. In the scheme two sequences of two-level atoms interact dispersively with the respective cavity modes and resonantly with two classical fields, and then are detected continually. The field finally reduces to a two-mode Fock state. The probability of collapsing to a given Fock state is determined by the initial photon-number distribution. The scheme can be easily generalized to a field with N modes.     

Turbulence mitigation scheme based on multiple-user detection in an orbital-angular-momentum multiplexed system

Atmospheric turbulence(AT) induced crosstalk can significantly impair the performance of a free-space optical(FSO)communication link using orbital angular momentum(OAM) multiplexing.In this paper,we propose a multiple-user detection(MUD) turbulence mitigation scheme in an OAM-multiplexed FSO communication link.First,we present a MUD equivalent communication model for an OAM-multiplexed FSO communication link under AT.In the equivalent model,each input bit stream represents one user's information.The deformed OAM spatial modes caused by AT,instead of the pure OAM spatial modes,are used as information carriers,and the overlapping between the deformed OAM spatial modes are computed as the correlation coefficients between the users.Then,we present a turbulence mitigation scheme based on MUD idea to enhance AT tolerance of the OAM-multiplexed FSO communication link.In the proposed scheme,the crosstalk caused by AT is used as a useful component to deduce users' information.The numerical results show that the performance of the OAM-multiplexed communication link has greatly improved by the proposed scheme.When the turbulence strength C_n~2 is 1 × 10~(-15) m~(-2/3),the transmission distance is 1000 m and the channel signal-to-noise ratio(SNR)is 26 dB,the bit-error-rate(BER) performance of four spatial multiplexed OAM modes l_m = + 1,+2,+3,+4 are all close to 10~(-5),and there is a 2-3 fold increase in the BER performance in comparison with those results without the proposed scheme.In addition,the proposed scheme is more effective for an OAM-multiplexed FSO communication link with a larger OAM mode topological charge interval.The proposed scheme is a promising direction for compensating the interference caused by AT in the OAM-multiplexed FSO communication link.     

Production of Three-Dimensional Maximal Entanglement for Two Cavity Modes

A scheme is proposed for generating maximally entangled states for two cavity modes, with each containing no more than two photons. In the scheme a single atom is sent through two resonant single-mode cavities. Based on the presently available techniques, our scheme might be experimentally realizable.     

Chemical sensing with microbent optical fiber

We propose and demonstrate the possibility of using a permanently microbent bare optical fiber for detecting chemical species. Two detection schemes, viz., a bright-field detection scheme (for the core modes), and a dark-field detection scheme (for the cladding modes) have been employed to produce a fiber-optic sensor. The sensor described here is sensitive enough to detect concentrations as low as nanomoles per liter of a chemical species, with a dynamic range of more than 6 orders of magnitude.     

纠缠相干态的纠缠浓缩

利用线性光学元器件对光场量子态进行操纵,可以实现远程的量子纠缠调控和量子通讯.通过分析光学分束器对相干态光场的作用,发现当初始光场态是两个两部分纠缠态的直乘时,让其中的两模通过光学分束器作用后再对其进行光子计数,另外两模将会塌缩到新的纠缠态.基于这个特点,提出了一个实现部分纠缠相干态纠缠浓缩的方案.在这个方案中,两个部分纠缠相干态被用来作为量子信道,通过光学分束器作用后对光场进行光子数探测时,如果测量到光场的两模分别处于奇光子数态和零光子数态,则光场另外的两模将塌缩到最大纠缠态,从而完成纠缠浓缩的过程.计算结果表明,对于纠缠相干态,无论其初始的纠缠是多么微弱,利用这种方法总有一定的几率可以从中提纯出最大纠缠态.     

Generation of Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen-entangled radiation through an atomic reservoir

We propose a scheme for generating two-mode squeezing in high-Q resonators using a beam of atoms with random arrival times, which acts as a reservoir for the field. The scheme is based on four-wave mixing processes leading to emission into two cavity modes, which are resonant with the Rabi sidebands of the atomic dipole transition, driven by a saturating classical field. At steady state the cavity modes are in an Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen state, whose degree of entanglement is controlled by the intensity and the frequency of the transverse field. This scheme is robust against stochastic fluctuations in the atomic beam, does not require atomic detection nor velocity selection, and can be realized by presently available experimental setups with microwave resonators.     

Generation of Multi-mode Entangled Coherent States for N Trapped Ions in Strong-Excitation Regime

We propose a scheme to generate entangled coherent states for the vibrational modes of N trapped ions. In the scheme the first ion is sequentially excited by two travelling wave laser fields tuned to the ion transition. The scheme works in the strong-excitation regime, which is of experimental importance in view of decoherence.