A simple scheme for generating multi-atom GHZ state via cavity QED

This paper proposes a simple scheme for generating a three-atom GHZ state via cavity quantum electrodynamics (QED). The task can be achieved through the interaction between two EPR states, which can be prepared easily with current technology. In this scheme, the cavity field is only virtually excited during the interaction process, and no quantum information transfer between the atoms and the cavity is required. Thus it greatly prolongs the efficient decoherent time. Moreover, this scheme is also applicable for generating an N-atom GHZ state.     

Atomic coherence control on the entanglement of two atoms in two-photon processes

Considering two identical two-level atoms interacting with a single-mode thermal field through two-photon processes, this paper studies the atomic coherence control on the entanglement between two two-level atoms, and finds that the entanglement is greatly enhanced due to the initial atomic coherence. The results show that the entanglement can be manipulated by changing the initial parameters of the system, such as the superposition coefficients and the relative phases of the initial atomic coherent state and the mean photon number of the cavity field.     

Quantum Information Processing in a Coupled Cavity Array

We consider a one-dimensional array of L identical coupled cavities, and each cavity is doped with a two-level qubit. Experimentally, it has been developed in several varieties by the newest technology. We find that the one-qubit quantum state can be perfectly transferred through the cavity array, and the entanglement between the first two qubits can also be transferred to the last two qubits. In addition, we successfully realized the entangling gate and swap gate in the coupled cavity array.     

Entangling Mesoscopic Squeezed Vacuum States and Mesoscopic Coherent States in Dissipative Cavity QED System

A scheme has been proposed for generating the macroscopic entanglement between the mesoscopic squeezed vacuum states and mesoscopic coherent states by considering both the two-photon interaction and the single photon interaction of N two-level atoms in cavities with high quality factor assisted by a strong driving field. Moreover, we derive the dissipative interaction models for single photon interaction and two-photon interaction, respectively. The corresponding analytical expressions of the fidelities can be given. Our scheme can be realized in the current techniques on the cavity QED.     

Extremal Entangled Four-Qubit Pure States with Respect to Multiple Entropy Measures

Four-qubit entanglement has been investigated using a recent proposed entanglement measure, multiple entropy measures （MEMS）. We have performed optimization for the nine different families of states of four-qubit system. Some extremal entangled states have been found.     

Entanglement Dynamics and Bell Violations of Two Atoms in Tavis-Cummings Model with Phase Decoherence

Considering the dipole-dipole coupling intensity between two atoms and the field in the Fock state, the entanglement dynamics between two atoms that are initially entangled in the system of two two-level atoms coupled to a single mode cavity in the presence of phase decoherence has been investigated. The two-atom entanglement appears with periodicity without considering phase decoherence, however, the phase decoherence causes the decay of entanglement between two atoms, with the increasing of the phase decoherence coefficient, the entanglement will quickly become a constant value, which is affected by the two-atom initial state. Meanwhile the two-atom quantum state will forever stay in the maximal entangled state when the initial state is proper even in the presence of phase decoherence. On the other hand, the Bell violation and the entanglement do not satisfy the monotonous relation, a large Bell violation implies the presence of a large amount of entanglement under certain conditions, while a large Bell violation corresponds to a little amount of entanglement in certain situations. However, the violation of Bell-CHSH inequality can reach the maximal value if two atoms are in the maximal entangled state, or vice versa.     

Efficient Scheme for Macroscopic Superpositions and Entanglement of High-Order Squeezed Vacuum States in Cavity QED

We propose an etticient scheme for generating the macroscopic superpositions and the entanglement between the high-order squeezed vacuum states by considering the multi-photon interaction of N two-level atoms in a cavity with high quality factor, assisted by a strong driving field. Through specific choices of the cavity detuning, a number of multi-party entangled states between the atoms and the high-order squeezed vacuum states and among the high-order squeezed vacuum states of the cavities can be prepared, including also the macroscopic ＂Schrodinger cats＂ of the high- order squeezed vacuum states, the entangled states of the macroscopic ＂Schrodinger cats＂, and so on. Possible extension and application of our scheme are discussed. Our scheme is reachable within the current techniques in the cavity QED.     

Implementing Entanglement Swapping and Generating Multiphoton Entanglement in Cavity QED

Based on the input-output relation of a one-sided cavity, we propose an experimental scheme to implement entanglement swapping with photons. In the ideal case, the successful probability of the scheme approaches unity. In addition, the protocol can be extended to establish multiphoton entanglement among distant users in a communication network.     

Threshold Multiparty Controlled Teleportation of Arbitrary m-Qubit Quantum Information

We present a (t,n) threshold multiparty controlled quantum teleportation protocol of an arbitrary m-qubit quantum state between two remote parties. The unknown m-qubit quantum state can be recovered by the receiver under control of a subset of the n controllers if the number of the subset is larger than or equal to a threshold, say, t, but not for any t-1 or fewer controllers. Our scheme seems to be more practical and more flexible than otherexisting protocols. The quantum resource required is just mEinstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) pairs plus some single photons. Thetechniques required are only Bell state measurement, single-qubitunitary operation and von Neumann measurement. So our scheme is alsofeasible with present-day technique.     

Quantum Secure Direct Communication with Four-Particle Genuine Entangled State and Dense Coding

A quantum secure direct communication scheme using dense coding is proposed. At first, the sender (Alice) prepares four-particle genuine entangled states and shares them with the receiver (Bob) by sending two particles in each entangled state to him. Secondly, Alice encodes secret information by performing the unitarytransformations on her particles and transmits them to Bob. Finally, Bob performs the joint measurements on his particles to decode the secret information. The two-step security test guarantees the security of communication.