速度调控的双原子纠缠

当光学腔中光场处于相干态,而原子处于运动中时,双原子的纠缠演化与光学腔场模结构相关联. 假如初始时刻原子的位置固定在腔中某一位置,双原子的纠缠演化将是无序的.然而,假如一开始双原子在光学腔相干态光场中处于运动状态,则双原子的纠缠随时间的变化将变得规则有序.如此,通过适当的选择双原子的速度和初始光场,就能对双原子的周期性纠缠进行控制,让纠缠在指定时刻出现.     

Protecting entanglement of atoms stored in a common nonperfect cavity without measurements

We study entanglement dynamics of two and three atoms stored in a common nonperfect cavity together with some other nonentangled atoms. It is guessed at first thought that the presence of nonentangled atoms would favor the decoherence process of the interested entangled atoms. We show, on the contrary, that it is not so. Namely, as results of a rigorous nonperturbative analysis, disentanglement rate of the interested atoms decreases with the increase of the number of nonentangled atoms. If the number of nonentangled atoms is sufficiently large, the entanglement of interested atoms could be protected efficiently.     

Disorder physics in mixtures of fermionic atoms

A mixture of light and heavy fermionic atoms in an optical lattice is considered. Tunneling of the heavy atoms is neglected such that they are only subject to thermal fluctuations. There is a complex interplay between light and heavy atoms which results in an Ising-like distribution of heavy atoms with a first-order transition from homogeneous to staggered order. A second-order transition is possible between an ordered and a disordered phase of heavy atoms. Depending on the phase of heavy atoms, light atoms are scattered around and can propagate, diffuse, and localize. Due to correlations in the disordered phase of heavy atoms, there can be a gap in the spectrum of light atoms, leading to a Mottlike incompressible state.     

Structural optimization and segregation behavior of quaternary alloy nanoparticles based on simulated annealing algorithm

Alloy nanoparticles exhibit higher catalytic activity than monometallic nanoparticles, and their stable structures are of importance to their applications. We employ the simulated annealing algorithm to systematically explore the stable structure and segregation behavior of tetrahexahedral Pt–Pd–Cu–Au quaternary alloy nanoparticles. Three alloy nanoparticles consisting of 443 atoms, 1417 atoms, and 3285 atoms are considered and compared. The preferred positions of atoms in the nanoparticles are analyzed. The simulation results reveal that Cu and Au atoms tend to occupy the surface, Pt atoms preferentially occupy the middle layers, and Pd atoms tend to segregate to the inner layers. Furthermore, Au atoms present stronger surface segregation than Cu ones. This study provides a fundamental understanding on the structural features and segregation phenomena of multi-metallic nanoparticles.     

Coherence-controlled stationary entanglement between two atoms embedded in a bad cavity injected with squeezed vacuum

We investigate the entanglement between two atoms in an overdamped cavity injected with squeezed vacuum when these two atoms are initially prepared in coherent states. It is shown that the stationary entanglement exhibits a strong dependence on the initial state of the two atoms when the spontaneous emission rate of each atom is equal to the collective spontaneous emission rate, corresponding to the case where the two atoms are close together. It is found that the stationary entanglement of two atoms increases with decreasing effective atomic cooperativity parameter. The squeezed vacuum can enhance the entanglement of two atoms when the atoms are initially in coherent states. Valuably, this provides us with a feasible way to manipulate and control the entanglement, by changing the relative phases and the amplitudes of the polarized atoms and by varying the effective atomic cooperativity parameter of the system, even though the cavity is a bad one. When the spontaneous emission rate of each atom is not equal to the collective spontaneous emission rate, the steady-state entanglement of two atoms always maintains the same value, as the amplitudes of the polarized atoms varies. Moreover, the larger the degree of two-photon correlation, the stronger the steady-state entanglement between the atoms.     

激光驻波场作用下原子束横向速度聚束

分别从理论和实验上研究了在负失谐强激光驻波场作用下，原子速度聚集在某一特定速度附近的现象，即速度聚束，产生速度聚束的原因是，当原子的速度小于某一临界速度时，激光对原子的辐射压力加热原子，而当原子速度大于这个临界速度时则冷却原子，因此原子将伙集于这个临界速度附近。     

原子在单色辐射作用下长时间内的行为研究

建立了原子在单色辐射作用下的模型，用微扰理论方法求解出原子处于两能级的几率.讨论了原子在单色辐射作用下长时间内的行为，得到了原子因辐射场的影响而变化的速率比能级的衰减速率大的情况下，原子在两能级间振荡，原子和辐射场相互作用越强，辐射场能够与原子发生作用的频率区间越宽,而且原子在单色光长时间辐射作用下高、低能级跃迁的速率不随时间而改变的结论.     

Spontaneously created entanglement between two atoms

Spontaneous emission as a potential tool for creation of entanglement between two atoms is investigated. We assume that the atoms are coupled to the same environment and study entanglement engineering between the atoms and its transfer between different states. The role of the atomic coherence induced by spontaneous emission will be explored which, in contrast to what is generally believed, can create entanglement between initially unentangled atoms. We quantify entanglement by the concurrence and find that it exhibits threshold properties that can lead to interesting noncontinuous phenomena of sudden birth and sudden death of entanglement. In addition, we consider the mechanism involved in creation of entanglement between distant atoms coupled to a single-mode cavity field. We include a possible variation of the coupling constants between the atoms and the cavity mode with location of the atoms in a standing-wave cavity mode. Effectively, we engineer two coupled atoms whose the dynamics are analogous to that of interacting and collectively damped two nonidentical atoms. We illustrate the interesting result that spatial variations of the coupling constants can lead to a stationary entanglement between the atoms. We explain this effect in terms of the trapping phenomenon of atomic population in a non-decaying entangled state.     

耗散环境下三原子之间稳定纠缠的量子反馈控制

研究利用基于量子跳跃的量子反馈控制来产生三个二能级原子之间稳定的纠缠.考虑三个二能级原子处于一个严重耗散的单模光腔中,分别讨论了反馈作用在一个原子上和反馈同时作用在三个原子上的情况.研究发现:当反馈作用在某个原子上时,基于量子跳跃的量子反馈能够保护另外两个原子的最大纠缠态.当反馈同时作用在三个原子上时,选择合适的参数可以得到两个基矢张开的无消相干子空间,并且利用量子轨迹蒙特卡罗波函数方法,得到一定初始条件下系统最终可以演化到这个子空间中三个原子之间的最大纠缠态.     

Effect of pairwise dipole–dipole interaction among three-atom systems

We present an analysis of a system of three two-level atoms interacting with one another through dipole–dipole interaction. The interaction manifests between the excited state of one of the atoms and the ground state of its nearest neighbour. Steady-state populations of the density matrix elements are presented and are compared with a situation when only two atoms are present. It can be noticed that the third atom modifies the behaviour of the three atoms. Two configurations are analysed, one in which the three atoms are in a line, with no interaction between atoms at the end points and the other in which the atoms form a closed loop with one atom interacting with both its neighbours.     

Laser-induced quantum adsorption of atoms on a surface

A method of the quantum adsorption of atoms on a surface is proposed and experimentally implemented. The loading of atoms into a surface potential well (adsorption) occurs due to the loss of kinetic energy in the process of the inelastic collision of two laser-excited atoms. This scheme is implemented for Rb atoms adsorbed on the surface of a YAG crystal. The possibility of producing microstructures of arbitrary shape that consist of atoms localized on the dielectric surface is also demonstrated.     

Simultaneous magneto-optical trapping of a boson-fermion mixture of metastable helium atoms

We simultaneously confine fermionic metastable 3He atoms and bosonic metastable 4He atoms in a magneto-optical trap. The trapped clouds, containing up to 1.5 x 10(8) atoms of each isotope, are characterized by measuring ions and metastable helium atoms escaping from the trap. Optical pumping of 3He atoms to a nontrapped hyperfine state is investigated and it is shown that large atom numbers can be confined without additional repumping lasers. Unique possibilities for quantum degeneracy experiments with mixtures of spin-polarized metastable 3He and 4He atoms are indicated.     

Effects of dipole-dipole interaction on entanglement transfer

A system consisting of two different atoms interacting with a two-mode vacuum, where each atom is resonant only with one cavity mode, is considered. The effects of dipole-dipole （dd） interaction between two atoms on the atom-atom entanglement and mode--mode entanglement are investigated. For a weak dd interaction, when the atoms are initially separable, the entanglement between them can be induced by the dd interaction, and the entanglement transfer between the atoms and the modes occurs efficiently; when the atoms are initially entangled, the entanglement transfer is almost not influenced by the dd interaction. However, for a strong dd interaction, it is difficult to transfer the entanglement from the atoms to the modes, but the atom-atom entanglement can be maintained when the atoms are initially entangled.     

Bombardment induced surface chemistry on Si under keV C60 impact

Molecular dynamics simulations of the sputtering of Si by C₆₀ keV bombardment are performed in order to understand the importance of chemical reactions between C atoms from the projectile and Si atoms in the target crystal. The simulations predict the formation of strong covalent bonds between the C and Si atoms, which result in nearly all of the C atoms remaining embedded in the surface after bombardment. At low incident kinetic energies, little sputtering of Si atoms is observed and there is a net deposition of solid material. As the incident kinetic energy is increased, the sputtering yield of Si atoms increases. At 15 keV, the yield of sputtered Si atoms is more than twice the number of C atoms deposited, and there is a net erosion of the solid material.     

碱土金属原子与Ne原子间相互作用势的理论计算

本文基于无任何可调参数的势模型计算了碱土金属原子(Be、Mg、Ca、Sr、Ba)与Ne原子间相互作用势,得到的势能曲线及势阱位置和深度与现有的从头计算结果符合较好.本文的计算结果进一步验证了碱土金属原子与稀有气体原子间交换能主要来自碱土金属原子最外层s电子与稀有气体原子最外层p电子之间的交换作用.     

SrTiO3(001)表面上Au和N原子相互作用的第一性原理研究

采用基于密度泛函理论的第一性原理平面波赝势方法研究了SrTiO₃(001)表面上Au和N原子间相互作用的微观机理.通过比较分析N置换表面层O原子前后SrTiO₃(001)表面吸附Au原子体系的相关能量和电子结构,发现SrTiO₃(001)表面吸附Au原子和N替代表面层O原子的置换过程二者之间存在明显的"协同效应",即N原子置换SrTiO₃(001)表面层O原子的过程增强了相应表面吸附Au原子的稳定性,而SrTiO关键词： 表面结构 相互作用 第一性原理     

Indirect decoherence in optical lattices and cold gases

The interaction of two–level atoms with a common heat bath leads to an effective interaction between the atoms, such that with time the internal degrees of the atoms become correlated or even entangled. If part of the atoms remain unobserved this creates additional indirect decoherence for the selected atoms, on top of the direct decoherence due to the interaction with the heat bath. I show that indirect decoherence can drastically increase and even dominate the decoherence for sufficiently large times. I investigate indirect decoherence through thermal black body radiation quantitatively for atoms trapped at regular positions in an optical lattice as well as for atoms at random positions in a cold gas, and show how indirect decoherence can be controlled or even suppressed through experimentally accessible parameters.     

Patterning nonanethiol protected gold films by barium atoms

Self assembled monolayers (SAM) formed from nonanethiols on thin gold films were exposed to a beam of ground state and metastable neutral barium atoms through a nickel mask. The interaction of the Ba atoms with the nonanethiol layer, followed by an etching process, creates well defined structures on the gold film, with features below 100 nm. We compared the interaction of ground state Ba atoms and SAM molecules with respect to metastable Ba atoms, finding that by using metastable atoms the Ba dose per SAM molecule is reduced. The results indicate that nanofabrication in the nanometer range with barium atoms is feasible. PACS 07.77.Gx; 42.82.Cr; 81.16.Ta     

H,Cl和F原子钝化Cu_2ZnSnS_4(112)表面态的第一性原理计算

采用基于密度泛函理论的第一性原理计算方法系统研究了Cu_2ZnSnS_4体相的晶格结构、能带、态密度及表面重构与H,Cl和F原子在Cu_2ZnSnS_4(112)表面上的吸附和钝化机理.计算结果表明:表面重构出现在以金属原子Cu-Zn-Sn终止的Cu_2ZnSnS_4(112)表面上,并且表面重构使表面发生自钝化;当单个H,Cl或F原子吸附在S原子终止的Cu_2ZnSnS_4(112)表面上时,相比于桥位(bridge)、六方密排(hcp)位和面心立方(fcc)位点,三种原子均在特定的顶位(top)吸附位点表现出最佳稳定性.当覆盖度为0.5 ML时,无论H,Cl还是F原子占据Cu_2ZnSnS_4(112)表面的2个顶位均具有最低的吸附能.以S原子终止的Cu_2ZnSnS_4(112)表面在费米能级附近的电子态主要由价带顶部Cu-3d轨道和S-3p轨道电子贡献,此即表面态.当H,Cl或F原子在表面的覆盖度达0.5 ML时,费米能级附近的表面态降低,其中H原子钝化表面态的效果最佳,Cl原子的效果次之,F原子的效果最差.表面态降低的主要原因在于吸附原子从S原子获得电子致使表面Cu原子和S原子在费米能级处的态密度峰几乎完全消失.     

The interference of light scattered by two distant nonidentical atoms

The interference property of the fluorescence field from two nonidentical atoms driven by a laser field is investigated. It is found that there are differences for the intensity and the second-order correlation function between the two identical atoms system and the two nonidentical atoms system. It is shown that the intensity and the second-order correlation function have different behaviors under the weak laser field and the strong case for two identical atoms and two nonidentical atoms systems.