热辐射场中两能级原子在大失谐情况下的消相干特性

两能级原子置于外部环境(热库)时,将两能级原子视为量子位,通过分析量子位与热辐射场在大失谐情况下相互作用过程中量子位约化密度算符非对角元的时间演化,研究量子位消相干特性.     

囚禁离子与调制热库相互作用时的退相干特征

解析地分析了在囚禁离子中由热库导致量子退相干的控制问题,提出了一个基于热库调制的抑制退相干的一般方法.热库的调制可利用外加的光场与离子相互作用来实现.应用这个方法,适当地选择热库调制参数,可以有效消除量子退相干.计算表明:在高的调制频率下,用这个机制来抑制退相干的效果与宇称激励机制相似.宇称激励机制不仅要求外场是±π脉冲而且要求脉冲既快又强,而热库调制机制仅要求外场频率足够高,因此,热库调制机制优于宇称激励机制.     

消除热库中量子位的消相干性

以二能级原子作为量子位,利用求解相互作用系统约化密度矩阵非对角元的方法,分别研究热库中量子位模型和依赖强度耦合Jaynes-Cummings模型的消相干特性.当外加驱动场消除消相干时,得到两种模型下驱动场必须满足的约束方程.?     

热库诱导的两比特量子纠缠与量子关联

对比研究了处于热库中的两量子比特的量子纠缠和量子关联随时间的演化。数值模拟的结果表明,尽管热库几乎总能诱导两量子比特的量子纠缠与量子关联,但二者的动力学演化并不完全相同。在与热库的相互作用中,两比特初始形成量子纠缠,随后纠缠逐渐消失,两比特形成纠缠以外的量子关联并得到维持。由此看出,相比于量子纠缠,量子关联对消相干的影响表现得更为稳健。     

分子磁体与环境的纠缠和退相干

本文研究了双轴分子磁体在耗散环境中的相干量子隧穿,作为环境的声子库抑制了相干量子隧穿,从而引起分子磁体中薛定谔猫态的退相干. 而环境内部声子之间的相互作用会导致分子磁体与热库之间退耦合,于是对退相干有一定的抑制作用. 在绝热近似和非绝热近似下,借助于约化密度矩阵计算了超Ohmo耗散中分子磁体与环境之间的纠缠度,当纠缠达到最大时,相干隧穿被完全抑制.     

三量子位系统的消相干和退纠缠

基于多谐振子热库环境模型,采用求解非马尔可夫近似主方程方法,研究了三量子位系统由于相对位相变化引起的消相干和退纠缠.计算得到了初始态为GHZ-class态、W-class态和WGHZ-class态在演化过程中的消相干和退纠缠时间尺度.结果表明,对初始GHZ-class态,相干性全部丧失,退纠缠完全发生,纠缠度变为0；对初始W-class态,相干性和纠缠度被保持；对初始WGHZ-class态,消相干部分发生,纠缠首先随时间变化最后达到一个渐近值.     

原子—场耦合系统中非局域性和纯度

本文讨论了光场初态和热库对原子——场耦合系统中量子非局域性和线性熵的影响。我们发现如果腔场无损耗且处于真空库，原子——场态会周期性的展现量子非局域性，原子和场的线性熵也会周期性地振荡，其周期和量子非局域性变化的周期相同。如果腔场损耗很弱而且热库的平均光子数很小，量子非局域性会消失，原子和场振荡的振幅逐渐减小。量子非局域性消失的速度取决于初始压缩相干态的幅度、腔的衰减系数和热库的平均光子数N。场越强、平均光子数和衰减系数越大，非局域性减弱的越快。     

耗散环境下二比特体系的量子关联性质研究

利用Quantum Discord(QD)判据,研究了与热库相互作用的二比特体系的量子关联性质.讨论了在不同初态下体系量子关联随时间的变化,以及热库的平均光子数m,n和原子的自发辐射率γ对体系量子关联性质的影响.结果表明,在不同的初态下,体系可以得到不同性质的量子关联;而且当原子自发辐射率γ取固定值时,QD的衰减会随m,n取值的减小而减慢,热库平均光子数都为零的情况下能够得到最大范围的量子关联;此外,当热库平均光子数m,n取确定值时,随着γ取值的减小,QD的衰减也会随之减慢,此时同样会得到较大范围的量子关联.说明较小的热库平均光子数以及原子自发辐射率γ能够减弱QD的衰减,从而获得生命力较强的体系量子关联.     

离子阱中热库诱导退相干的控制

对单个囚禁离子在热库作用下的退相干的控制问题进行了研究.本文提出的控制方法是基于消除自由哈密顿技术和脉冲重聚技术的结合.前者是利用一个经典大失谐激光场作用于囚禁离子来实现的,而后者是利用一系列的激光π脉冲来实现的.解析与数值表明,应用这种控制方法可以有效消除量子退相干且比纯粹应用脉冲重聚技术要好.     

纠缠薛定谔猫态的非局域性及其在热库中的演化

利用Bell-CHSH(Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt）不等式研究了两种纠缠的光学薛定猫态的量子非定域性及其在真空热库中的演化。计算表明，最大纠缠的薛定谔猫态具有最大非定域性。在真空热库中随着时间的演化，两种纠缠态的量子非定域性逐渐减弱直至消失。     

The initial decoherence of the mesoscopic Josephson junction flux qubit

For a mesoscopic radio frequency superconducting quantum interference device(rfSQUID),at a degeneracy point,the system reduces to a quantum two-state system which can be used as a flux qubit.When the noise environment is equivalent to a harmonic oscillators bath,by virtue of an operator-norm measure for the short time decoherence,this paper investigates the initial decoherence of the flux qubit operating in the ohmic noise environment and illustrates its property by means of the numerical evaluation.     

Dynamics of entanglement protection of two qubits using a driven laser field and detunings:Independent and common,Markovian and/or non-Markovian regimes

Preventing quantum entanglement from decoherence effect is of theoretical and practical importance in the quantum information processing technologies.In this regard,we consider the entanglement dynamics of two identical qubits where the qubits which are coupled to two independent(Markovian and/or non-Markovian) as well as a common reservoir at zero temperature are further interacted with a classical driving laser field.Then,we study the preservation of generated two-qubit entanglement in various situations using the concurrence measure.It is shown that by applying the classical driving field and so the possibility of controlling the Rabi frequency,the amount of entanglement of the two-qubit system is improved in the off-resonance condition between the qubit and the central cavity frequencies(central detuning) in both non-Markovian and Markovian reservoirs.While the central detuning has a constructive role,the detuning between the qubit and the classical field(laser detuning) affects negatively on the entanglement protection.The obtained results show that long-living entanglement in the non-Markovian reservoir is more accessible than in the Markovian reservoir.We demonstrate that,in a common reservoir non-zero stationary entanglement is achievable whenever the two-qubit system is coupled to the reservoir with appropriate values of relative coupling strengths.     

Information entropy and entanglement of a superconducting qubit coupled to a cavity field with its spontaneous decay

The quantum entanglement between superconducting qubit and cavity field is described quantitatively in the presence of spontaneous decay. Depending on how how a system is quantum correlated with its environment, the entanglement dynamics between the qubit and cavity is evaluated and investigated during the dissipative process. The motivation based on recent experiments wherein the Cooper box can be used to probe the decay of the resonator superposition state due to environmental decoherence, we theoretically investigate the dynamics of entanglement measured by the negativity. Wehrl entropy and Wehrl phase distribution of a superconducting qubit coupled to a cavity field induced by a superconducting qubit-damping reservoir governed by a master equation.     

Measurements of a periodically driving qubit using a quantum point contact

Using the method developed by Gurvitz [1996 Phys.Rev.B 53 15932],we obtained the Bloch-type rate equations describing the entire system of a periodically driving qubit monitored by a quantum point contact detector.The results demonstrate that the isolated qubit can be kept in its initial state with a large driving frequency due to more difficult electron tunneling in qubit,and this initial state can always be measured at a small measurement-induced decoherence rate during a short time.     

Short-Time Decoherence of Solid-State Qubit at Optimal Operation Points

We investigate the short-time decoherence of a solid-state qubit under Ohmic noise at optimal operation points. The decoherence is analyzed by maximum norm of the deviation density operator. It is shown that at the temperature T = 3 mK, the loss of the fidelity due to decoherence is much smaller than the DiVincenzo low decoherence criterion, which means that the model may be an optimal candidate of qubit for quantum computation.     

Short-Time Decoherence of Solid-State Qubit at Optimal Operation Points

We investigate the short-time decoherence of a solid-state qubit under Ohmic noise at optimal operation points. The decoherence is analyzed by maximum norm of the deviation density operator. It is shown that at the temperature T = 3 mK, the loss of the fidelity due to decoherence is much smaller than the DiVincenzo low decoherence criterion, which means that the mode/may be an optimal candidate of qubit for quantum computation.     

Decoherence in solid-state qubits

The interaction of solid-state qubits with environmental degrees of freedom strongly affects the qubit dynamics, and leads to decoherence. In quantum information processing with solid-state qubits, decoherence significantly limits the performances of such devices. Therefore, it is necessary to fully understand the mechanisms that lead to decoherence. In this review, we discuss how decoherence affects two of the most successful realizations of solid-state qubits, namely, spin qubits and superconducting qubits. In the former, the qubit is encoded in the spin 1/2 of the electron, and it is implemented by confining the electron spin in a semiconductor quantum dot. Superconducting devices show quantum behaviour at low temperatures, and the qubit is encoded in the two lowest energy levels of a superconducting circuit. The electron spin in a quantum dot has two main decoherence channels, a (Markovian) phonon-assisted relaxation channel, due to the presence of a spin–orbit interaction, and a (non-Markovian) spin bath constituted by the spins of the nuclei in the quantum dot that interact with the electron spin via the hyperfine interaction. In a superconducting qubit, decoherence takes place as a result of fluctuations in the control parameters, such as bias currents, applied flux and bias voltages, and via losses in the dissipative circuit elements.     

Scalable ion trap quantum computing without moving ions

A hybrid quantum computing scheme is studied where the hybrid qubit is made of an ion trap qubit serving as the information storage and a solid-state charge qubit serving as the quantum processor, connected by a superconducting cavity. In this paper, we extend our previous work [CITE] and study the decoherence, coupling and scalability of the hybrid system. We present our calculations of the decoherence of the coupled ion-charge system due to the charge fluctuations in the solid-state system and the dissipation of the superconducting cavity under laser radiation. A gate scheme that exploits rapid state flips of the charge qubit to reduce decoherence by the charge noise is designed. We also study a superconducting switch that is inserted between the cavity and the charge qubit and provides tunable coupling between the qubits. The scalability of the hybrid scheme is discussed together with several potential experimental obstacles in realizing this scheme.     

Integrated superconducting circuit for qubit and resonator protection

A semi-infinite waveguide acts as a mirror and helps protect the qubit in front of it from decoherence. Here, we investigate the interference effect in an open waveguide consisting of resonators with different decay rates. We find that a lossy resonator works as a mirror and changes the effective decay rate of the other. The spontaneous radiation of qubit is related to its environment, and we can control it by arranging the lossy resonator's position or frequency. Our approach helps improving the qubit performance, as well as the quantum gate fidelities.     

Relaxation and the Zeno effect in qubit measurements

We consider a qubit interacting with its environment and continuously monitored by a detector represented by a point contact. Bloch-type equations describing the entire system of the qubit, the environment, and the detector are derived. Using these equations we evaluate the detector current and its noise spectrum in terms of the decoherence and relaxation rates of the qubit. Simple expressions are obtained that show how these quantities can be accurately measured. We demonstrate that due to interaction with the environment, the measurement can never localize a qubit even for infinite decoherence rate.