单原子量子调控研究取得重要进展

激光冷却的中性原子具有长的态相干时间,是量子计算、量子仿真、量子信息处理等研究领域的众多候选体系之一,对单个中性原子的操控是当前量子调控研究方面的难点和热点。武汉光电国家实验室的原子芯片团队,在单原子量子调控研究方面取得重要进展。该团队利用空间光调制器实现了独特的单原子全息光阱阵列,     

超冷单原子分子阵列

用光镊形成光阱囚禁单个原子、用激光将单个原子冷却到基态形成超冷原子、将超冷原子相干合成单个超冷分子、将单原子分子重排串成丰富多样的超冷单原子分子阵列,这就构成了精密相干可控的多粒子量子系统,为多种前沿科学研究与技术发展提供难得的量子平台.文章介绍近年来在单原子量子态高保真操控、异核原子量子纠缠、原子一分子耦合态相干控制...     

冷原子系综内单集体激发态的相干操纵

原子系综内部分原子发生相干态转移后所处量子态被称为集体激发态.如果激发数目在单原子量级则被称为单激发态.在量子存储过程中,单光子以单激发态的形式在原子系综内进行存储.因此,研究单激发态的制备、演化、转化、干涉等过程是量子存储及其应用研究的关键.本文总结了近年来作者所在研究团队针对冷原子系综体系在此研究方向取得的若干成果.主要包括采用动量模式调控、三维光晶格等手段抑制单激发态的退相干,采用环形腔增强原子至光子的转化效率,发展基于拉曼光的单激发态相干转移技术,利用单量子态不同模式间干涉制备光与原子纠缠,利用里德伯阻塞机制提升纠缠制备效率等.此外,简要回顾了基于多个单激发态的量子中继及量子网络实验.     

依赖强度耦合三光子过程下运动原子最佳熵压缩态的制备

为了研究三光子过程中原子与相干态耦合量子体系信息熵压缩随时间演化规律及原子最佳信息熵压缩态的制备,我们采用全量子理论,推导出运动原子与单模简并三光子依赖强度耦合量子体系的精确解;理论上给出制备原子最佳信息熵压缩态的充分及必要条件,并进行了数值模拟验证.研究结果表明:控制相干态场与原子作用时间,切断相干态场与原子的纠缠,选择二能级原子处于等权重相干叠加态,适当选取相干态场与原子的初始位相,可以制备出原子最佳量子信息熵压缩态;调节光腔中场模结构参量,能够得到连续的量子信息熵压缩态.该研究结果在多光子过程低噪声量子信息处理中具有一定意义.     

基于超导量子比特的电磁感应透明研究进展

超导量子计算是目前被认为最有希望实现量子计算机的方案之一. 超导量子比特是超导量子计算的核心部件. 如何尽可能的增加超导量子比特的退相干时间, 大规模的集成超导量子比特已成为超导量子计算研究的主要方向. 超导量子比特作为宏观的人工原子, 有许多量子光学现象都能够在其中观测到. 利用超导量子比特实现电磁感应透明为研究超导量子比特的退相干机理提供了新手段, 为研究非线性光学、光存储、光的超慢速传输等量子光学效应开辟了新思路. 本文介绍了电磁感应透明的理论基础, 总结了目前针对超导量子比特的电磁感应透明研究进展, 对比了一般气体原子与超导量子比特的电磁感应透明区别, 并对超导量子比特实现电磁感应透明的潜在应用进行了总结和展望.     

基于共振里德伯偶极-偶极相互作用的双反阻塞机制及量子逻辑门的实现

里德伯原子由于具有较长的能级寿命和易于操控的特点已成为卓越的信息载体之一.近年来,关于里德伯原子性质的研究得到逐步的发展和完善,特别是基于里德伯原子间范德瓦耳斯力诱导的单能级里德伯阻塞和反阻塞效应.然而,随着原子间距离的改变,里德伯相互作用将导致更加复杂的动力学行为.本文主要研究在原子间距小于其特征长度的情况下,如何根据构建的里德伯反阻塞及双反阻塞机制一步实现两量子比特控制相位门和交换门,在此范围内的原子间相互作用将涉及多个能级的布居交换.数值模拟表明:里德伯阻塞与双反阻塞机制的解析和数值结果能够达到高度一致,理想情况下控制相位门和交换门的平均保真度分别为99.35%和99.67%,此结果对于抵抗高激发里德伯态的自发辐射具有一定的鲁棒性.希望本文的研究能够为里德伯原子系统中实现大规模容错量子计算提供必要的理论支持与实验依据.     

依赖强度耦合三光子过程下运动原子最佳熵压缩态的制备

为了研究三光子过程中原子与相干态耦合量子体系信息熵压缩随时间演化规律及原子最佳信息熵压缩态的制备,我们采用全量子理论,推导出运动原子与单模简并三光子依赖强度耦合量子体系的精确解;理论上给出制备原子最佳信息熵压缩态的充分及必要条件,并进行了数值模拟验证。研究结果表明：控制相干态场与原子作用时间,切断相干态场与原子的纠缠,选择二能级原子处于等权重相干叠加态,适当选取相干态场与原子的初始位相,可以制备出原子最佳量子信息熵压缩态;调节光腔中场模结构参量,能够得到连续的量子信息熵压缩态。该研究结果在多光子过程低噪声量子信息处理中具有一定意义。     

超级里德伯原子间的稳态关联集体激发与量子纠缠

处于同一偶极阻塞区域的里德伯原子系综可以看作一个超级原子,如果它们被捕获在两个不同的光偶极阱中,那么每一个光偶极阱中的子原子系综可以看作为一个亚超级原子.由于这两个亚超级原子共享不超过一个激发的里德伯原子,所以它们会强烈地关联起来.本文研究这两个里德伯亚超级原子的稳态关联集体激发特性和量子纠缠行为.结果表明原子数目带来的影响非常明显:里德伯亚超级原子越大(包含原子数目越多),集体激发概率越大;最大纠缠只发生在等大的两个里德伯亚超级原子之间.通过增加原子数目,可以实现介观领域的量子纠缠,对量子-经典对应的研究以及量子信息处理有着重要的作用.     

超短激光脉冲操控双量子比特的量子态

用光与物质相互作用的半经典理论研究了超短激光脉冲与构成双量子比特的二体二能级体系的相互作用,对由不同的激发方式引起的独立双路(Independent Double Path-Ways,IDPW)和相干双路径(Coherent Double Path-Ways,CDPW)进行对比.研究结果表明,与单量子比特相比,双量子比特在超短激光脉冲的作用下,表现出更加丰富的相干性.这种相干特性与体系初态、失谐量和激发的路径都有关.同时,可以利用超短激光脉冲对双量子比特的相干激发,通过调节光脉冲面积来实现量子态的操控.     

单原子在两个远红失谐光偶极阱中的转移

在光偶极阱中实现单个中性原子的囚禁及其操控在量子信息处理中具有重要的应用.为此在使用强聚焦远红失谐激光形成的光偶极阱囚禁单个中性铷原子后,通过一个空间可移动的光偶极阱从静止的光偶极阱上掠过,实现了将静止的光偶极阱中的单原子以94%的概率转移到可移动的光偶极阱中,并将该原子移动到焦平面上指定的位置.该实验对于实现光偶极阱阵列中任意两个原子的纠缠以及光偶极阱中原子外在自由度的操控等研究有着潜在的应用.     

Active one-way quantum computation with two-photon four-qubit cluster states

By using 2-photon 4-qubit cluster states we demonstrate deterministic one-way quantum computation in a single qubit rotation algorithm. In this operation feed-forward measurements are automatically implemented by properly choosing the measurement basis of the qubits, while Pauli error corrections are realized by using two fast driven Pockels cells. We realized also a C-NOT gate for equatorial qubits and a C-PHASE gate for a generic target qubit. Our results demonstrate that 2-photon cluster states can be used for rapid and efficient deterministic one-way quantum computing.     

Quantum state swap for two trapped Rydberg atoms

The quantum swap gate is one of the most useful gates for quantum computation. Two-qubit entanglement and a controlled-NOT quantum gate in a neutral Rydberg atom system have been achieved in recent experiments. It is therefore very interesting to propose a scheme here for swapping a quantum state between two trapped neutral atoms via the Rydberg blockade mechanism. The atoms interact with a sequence of laser pulses without individual addressing. The errors of the swap gate due to imprecision of pulse length, finite Rydberg interaction, and atomic spontaneous emission are discussed.     

Quantum Optics of Ultracold Molecular Fields

We apply concepts of quantum optical coherence to characterize the coherent generation of a molecular field from a quantum-degenerate atomic sample, and discuss the impact of the quantum statistics of the atoms on that field. For atoms initially in a BEC the resulting molecular field is to a good approximation coherent. This is in sharp contrast to the case of atoms in a normal Fermi gas, where we can made use of an analogy with the Tavis-Cummings model to show that the statistics of the resulting molecular field is similar to that of a single-mode chaotic light field. The BCS case interpolates between the two extremes, with an ＇incoherent＇ contribution from unpaired atoms superposed to a ＇coherent＇ contribution from atomic Cooper pairs. We also comment on the temporal fluctuations characteristic of the formation of molecular dimers from ultracold fermionic atoms.     

C-NOT gate based on ultracold Rydberg atom interactions

The Rydberg states of neutral atoms are strongly polarisable and possess long lifetimes because of high energies which can lead to strong and long range dipole-dipole interactions.The energy levels corresponding to these states are shifted because of dipole-dipole interactions and can be used to block transitions of more than one excitation in the Rydberg regime.This reputed Rydberg blockade is obtained when the excitation is shifted out of resonance by these interactions.Electromagnetically induced transparency(EIT)is sensitive to a small detuning.At large distances,up to several micrometers,the interactions can interrupt the EIT consequence.Herein we investigate a novel scheme based on EIT and Rydberg blockade and performed a simulation of a controlled-NOT(C-NOT)quantum gate which is critical for quantum computation by using neutral atoms.     

Long-range quantum gates using dipolar crystals

We propose the use of dipolar spin chains to enable long-range quantum logic between distant qubits. In our approach, an effective interaction between remote qubits is achieved by adiabatically following the ground state of the dipolar chain across the paramagnet to crystal phase transition. We demonstrate that the proposed quantum gate is particularly robust against disorder and derive scaling relations, showing that high-fidelity qubit coupling is possible in the presence of realistic imperfections. Possible experimental implementations in systems ranging from ultracold Rydberg atoms to arrays of nitrogen vacancy defect centers in diamond are discussed.     

Scheme for Remote Implementation of Partially Unknown Quantum Operation of Two Qubits in Cavity QED

By constructing the recovery operations of the protocol of remote implementation of partially unknown quantum operation of two qubits [An-Min Wang: Phys. Rev. A 74 (2006) 032317] with two-qubit Cnot gate and single qubit logic gates, we present a scheme to implement it in cavity QED. Long-lived Rydberg atoms are used as qubits, and the interaction between the atoms and the field of cavity is a nonresonant one. Finally, we analyze the experimental feasibility of this scheme.     

Comparison of single-neutral-atom qubit between in bright trap and in dark trap

A single neutral atom is one of the most promising candidates to encode a quantum bit(qubit). In a real experiment, a single neutral atom is always confined in a micro-sized far off-resonant optical trap(FORT). There are generally two types of traps: red-detuned trap and blue-detuned trap. We experimentally compare the qubits encoded in "clock states" of single cesium atoms confined separately in either 1064-nm red-detuned(bright) trap or 780-nm blue-detuned(dark) trap: both traps have almost the same trap depth. A longer lifetime of 117 s and a longer coherence time of about 10 ms are achieved in the dark trap. This provides a direct proof of the superiority of the dark trap over the bright trap. The measures to further improve the coherence are discussed.     

A concise review of Rydberg atom based quantum computation and quantum simulation

Quantum information processing based on Rydberg atoms emerged as a promising direction two decades ago.Recent experimental and theoretical progresses have shined exciting light on this avenue.In this concise review,we will briefly introduce the basics of Rydberg atoms and their recent applications in associated areas of neutral atom quantum computation and simulation.We shall also include related discussions on quantum optics with Rydberg atomic ensembles,which are increasingly used to explore quantum computation and quantum simulation with photons.     

蓝移阱中单个铯原子基态磁不敏感态的相干操控

单个中性原子的超精细微波跃迁能级的相干性是基于中性原子量子计算、量子信息处理和量子模拟的基础.我们在实验上利用微波双光子拉曼过程实现了蓝移阱中铯原子基态超精细态|6S1/2,F=3,mF=-1〉和|6S1/2,F=4,mF=1〉间的相干操控,并研究了其相对能级频移随磁场的变化,获得了"魔术"磁场的大小为1.4(2)Gauss(1 Gauss=10-4 T).结果表明,利用魔术磁场可大幅改善超精细态|6S1/2,F=3,mF=-1?和|6S1/2,F=4,mF=1〉之间的相干性,测量到的相干时间可达1.0(1)s.