Generation and Purification of Atomic Entangled States

Entangled state plays a more and more important role in quantum information, so the generation of entangled state is of scientific value and practical significance.Although the experimental realization of entangled pairs of atoms and polarized photons have been reported recently, the current preparation schemes cannot meet the need of the practical application of entangled state in Quantum Communication and Quantum Computation.At the same time, resulting from the coupling between the quantum systems and its environment, decoherence of the quantum systems is unavoidable, which sets a vital obstacle on the way of the application of entanglement.There exist some entanglement generation and purification schemes, but the range of its application is relative small.So we proposed a more efficient scheme for entanglement generation and purification.The scheme is mainly based on the combination of linear optics and Cavity QED technique.The entanglement generation scheme can entangle two atoms by using MZI plus an optical cavity.Pure maximally entangled atomic states can be generated from product states or mixed states.Using a MZI, we can extract not only two-atom near-maximally entangled states but also four-atom maximally entangled states from less entangled pure or mixed states.

Generation and Purification of Atomic Entangled States