Creation of an entangled state between two NV centers in a single-photon interferometric scheme

We study a method for creating an entangled state between two NV centers in diamond that do not directly interact with each other. The method is based on excitation of centers with a single photon via a half divider with subsequent coherent inversion of the spin of the excited center by a microwave pulse and on the detection of a photon that was emitted by the excited center and that passed through the divider. We consider the general case in which the transition frequencies of the centers are shifted with respect to each other and the control pulses are detuned with respect to these transitions. We find the probability of creating an entangled state and its fidelity in relation to the parameters of the method and transition frequencies of the centers. Optimal values of these parameters are determined.     

Two-mode excited entangled coherent states and their entanglement properties

This paper introduces two types of two-mode excited entangled coherent states (TMEECSs) |Ψ_±(α,m,n)>, studies their entanglement characteristics, and investigates the influence of photon excitations on quantum entanglement. It shows that for the state |Ψ₊(α,m,m)> the two-mode photon excitations affect seriously entanglement character while the state |Ψ_-(α,m,m)> is always a maximally entangled state, and shows how such states can be produced by using cavity quantum electrodynamics and quantum measurements. It finds that the entanglement amount of the TMEECSs is larger than that of the single-mode excited entangled coherent states with the same photon excitation number.     

Inducing disallowed two-atom transitions with temporally entangled photons

Two uncoupled two-level atoms cannot be jointly excited by classical light under general circumstances, due to destructive interference of excitation pathways in two-photon absorption. However, with temporally entangled light, two-atom excitation is shown possible. Photons arising from three-level cascade decay are intrinsically ordered in time of emission. This field correlation induces a joint resonance in the two-atom excitation probability via suppression of one of the time-ordered excitation pathways. The relative gain in two-photon absorption increases with the time-frequency entanglement.     

High efficiency photon counting using stored light

We propose a method that can, in principle, achieve nearly ideal photon counting, by combining the techniques of photonic quantum memory and ion-trap quantum-state measurements. After mapping the quantum state of a propagating light pulse onto metastable collective excitations of a trapped cold atomic gas, it is possible to monitor the resonance fluorescence induced by an additional laser field that couples only to the metastable excited state. Even with a photon collection/detection efficiency as low as 10%, it is possible to achieve photon counting with efficiency exceeding 99%.     

Entanglement and Pancharatnam Phase for Two Two-Level Atoms Interacting with a Single Mode Field

A model of two 2-level atoms interacts with a single quantized electromagnetic field is considered. We study the effect of the mean photon number and the structure of the initial states of the two atoms on the dynamics of the atomic system from the separability point of view. It is found that, if we start from a product mixed atomic state, the probability of generating long living entangled states is increased as the mean photon number increases. Starting from excited atomic system in product state, one generates a more stable entangled states with high degree of entanglement. Also, the effect of the mean photon number on atomic system prepared initially in entangled states is investigated. It is found that the entangled state generated from the initially partial entangled states are more robust than those obtained from a maximum entangled state. The Pancharatnam phase for the separable and entangled states is studied under the effect of the mean photon number and the structure of the initial state. We find that for the separable states, the collapses decrease and the amplitude of the revivals is smaller than that for the entangled state, so there are long-living entangled phases. This property give us a great chances to store safely information in entangled state.     

三能级原子与奇偶纠缠相干光作用的光场压缩

采用求解薛定谔方程和数值计算方法,研究了V型三能级原子与双模奇偶纠缠相干光场相互作用过程中的光场压缩效应,讨论了压缩效应与双模奇偶纠缠相干光场的纠缠程度、系统失谐量、双模光场的平均光子数和原子基态概率幅的依赖关系。结果表明：光场压缩效应与双模奇偶纠缠相干光场的纠缠程度、失谐量、平均光子数和原子初态相关联：双模纠缠相干光场处于非纠缠状态时的光场压缩量比光场处于纠缠状态时要大;原子处在单纯的基态或激发态时光场都有明显的压缩现象出现;而原子初态中基态和激发态的概率幅较接近时无光场压缩现象;无论光场是否处于纠缠态,只有两模平均光子数接近时,光场才会出现压缩效应。     

Entangled photon generation in a nonlinear microring resonator for birefringence-based sensing applications

This paper proposes a new concept of birefringence-based sensor using the entangled photon timing walk-off compensation. The superposition of nonlinear light known as four-wave mixing is introduced by the Kerr nonlinear effects type within the ring device. The possible two entangled photon pairs are randomly generated using the polarization control unit. Results obtained have shown that the entangled state walk-off of light traveling within the ring device can be compensated. This means the changes in walk-off parameters can be relatively measured to the changes in the applied physical parameters. The potential of using such a proposed system for birefringence-based sensor applications is plausible and discussed.     

一种独立于激发光脉冲参量的磷光寿命测量方法

脉冲法磷光寿命测量中，激发光脉冲参量（脉冲宽度和形状）、用于磷光强度衰减分析的起始时刻的选取是影响寿命计算准确度的关键因素。以线性时不变系统理论为依据，探讨了磷光强度衰减特性与激发光脉冲参量之间的关系，发现对于有限宽度的激发光，激发光脉冲消失之后的磷光强度衰减特性独立于激发光脉冲参量；选取激发光脉冲消失时刻作为磷光强度衰减分析的起始时刻，可获得准确的寿命计算。利用磷光探针氧卟啉（Oxy-PhorR2）标准试样做了针对性实验，实验结果验证了理论的正确性。     

脉冲激发三能级体系半导体量子点的单光子发射效率

研究了脉冲激发下单个半导体量子点中单光子发射的统计特性.在旋转波近似条件下，由系统粒子数演化主方程并结合量子回归理论推导了二阶相关函数的运动方程，利用此方程讨论了二阶相关函数随输入脉冲面积的关系.在窄脉冲宽度的脉冲激发下，单光子的发射概率p和效率η都随着强度的增强而产生振荡.研究表明，采用窄脉冲宽度，当输入脉冲面积在π附近时可以得到较高的单光子发射效率. 关键词： 半导体量子点 单光子发射 三能级系统     

Thin-film electroluminescent devices excited by a linearly rising voltage

The average and instantaneous luminances of a thin-film electroluminescent device (TFELD) are determined as functions of the voltage rise time by solving kinetic equations for the concentration of excited emission centers in the electroluminescent layer of the device. It is shown theoretically and experimentally that the dependences of the average and peak luminances, the external and internal quantum yield, the energy yield, and the luminous efficacy as functions of the voltage rise time all have a maximum, and the position of that maximum depends on the frequency of the driving voltage. The calculated and experimental dependences make it possible to determine the main parameters of the electroluminescence process: the collisional excitation cross section for the emission centers, the concentration of emission centers, and the transition probability of the emission centers to an excited state, as well as the radiative and nonradiative recombination probabilities of these and other centers. Zh. Tekh. Fiz. 69, 58–63 (February 1999)     

Establishment of Entanglement for Two Atoms Trapped in Two Distant Bad Cavities

A scheme is presented for generation of entangled states for two atoms trapped in two distant bad cavities. The scheme can work with bad cavities with the coupling strength smaller than the cavity decay rate, which is important from the viewpoint of experiment. In the scheme the atoms have no probability of being populated in the excited state and thus the atomic spontaneous emission is suppressed, which increases the probability of success. The fidelity of the entangled state is not affected by the detection eflciency. Furthermore, the scheme does not require the detection of the left-polarized photon and right-polarized photon at the same time.     

Robust Scheme for Entangling Two Distant Atoms

A robust scheme is presented for realizing entangled states for two atoms trapped in separate cavities connected by an optical fiber. The first atom is initially in a superposition of the excited state and an auxiliary ground state not coupled to the first cavity, while the second one is initially in the ground state coupled to the second cavity. The scheme involves two atom-cavity-fiber interactions accompanied by the monitoring of the cavity decay and atomic spontaneous emission. The two atoms evolve to an entangled state through exchanging an excitation after the first interaction. The states with the excitation failing to be transferred are eliminated when a photon is detected during the second interaction. Therefore, the scheme is insensitive to the decoherence effect and detection inefficiency.     

Magnetic-field control of subradiance states of a system of two atoms

A method is proposed for the creation of an entangled metastable (subradiance) excited state in a system of two closely spaced identical atoms. The system of unexcited atoms is first placed in a magnetic field that is directed at a magic angle of \({\alpha _0} = {\text{arccos}}\left( {1/\sqrt 3 } \right) \approx 54.7^\circ \) to the line connecting the atoms and has a transverse gradient. The gradient of the field results in the detuning of frequencies of an optical transition of the atoms. Then, the resonant laser excitation of an atom with a higher transition frequency is performed with the subsequent adiabatic switching-off of the gradient of the magnetic field. It is shown that the excited atomic system in this case transits with overwhelming probability to an entangled subradiance state. Requirements on the spectroscopic parameters of the transitions and on the rate of varying the gradient of the magnetic field necessary for the implementation of this effect are analyzed.     

Simple cases of spontaneous emission from an atom-photon cluster localized in a microcavity

The spontaneous emission from an atomic ensemble localized in a microcavity with the participation of microcavity photons and an external broadband quantized electromagnetic field at the Raman resonance of photons with an optically forbidden (two-photon) atomic transition has been studied. The average spontaneous decay intensity has been calculated for simple cases. It is shown that the dynamics of spontaneous emission from this atomic ensemble differs generally from the conventional superradiance (spontaneous emission of an atomic ensemble at a one-photon optically allowed transition from excited to the ground state. When the atomic ensemble is strongly excited, the delay times and the emission pulse shape differ significantly. The parameter ranges where the spontaneous emission from the atomic ensemble under consideration at a two-photon Raman transition can be described as conventional superradiance with renormalized parameters are found. In the case of single excitation the photon emission probability depends on the number of photons and atoms in the microcavity.     

Four entangled photons generation using weak light and an all fiber optic scheme for multi-entangled photons generation

This paper proposes a simple scheme of four entangled photons generation using a pulse of weak light input into a Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) incorporating a fiber optic ring resonator (FORR) without any optical pumping components included in the system. After a pair of entangled photon has been generated by a four-wave mixing of weak light pulse in the FORR [P.P. Yupapin, S. Suchat, Entangled photon generation using fiber optic Mach-Zehnder interferometer incorporating the nonlinear effect in a fiber ring resonator, Journal of Nanophotonics (JNP) 1 (2007) 013504], four and eight entangled photons can be performed. In application, the multi-entangled states can be formed using the appropriated coupling ratios into a fiber coupler. The effect of the entangled state walk-off along the optical fiber is discussed.     

Photon Excitations Excitated the Sqeezing Properties of the Excited Entangled Coherent States

In our previous paper, we have introduced a new kind of continuous-variable-type entangled states, called double-mode excited entangled coherent states. In this paper, we study sum squeezing properties of such excited entangled coherent states. We focus on discussing the influence of photon excitations on sum squeezing properties. It is found that the photon excitations seriously affected sqeezing properties of the excited entangled coherent states. With increasing the number of the photon excitations m, the higher-order terms move away from its initial state |ψ ₀〉 and the degrees of sum squeezing are increasing. In this sense, it implies that the photon excitations excitated the sum sqeezing properties of the double-mode excited entangled coherent states.     

Quantum entanglement of Fock states with perfectly efficient ultraslow single-probe photon four-wave mixing

We propose a method to achieve quantum entanglement of two Fock states with perfectly efficient, ultraslow propagation enhanced four-wave mixing. A cold atomic medium is illuminated with a two-mode cw control laser to produce coherent mixtures of excited states. An ultraslowly propagating, single-photon quantum probe field completes the four-wave mixing with 100% photon flux conversion efficiency, creating a depth dependent entanglement of two Fock states. We show that at a suitable propagation distance, a maximum entangled state is created with a single-photon wave-packet state that has 50% probability of being in each of two product-type Fock states.     

Science as social history

Quantum states of light, such as squeezed states or entangled states, can be used to make measurements (metrology), produce images, and sense objects with a precision that far exceeds what is possible classically, and also exceeds what was once thought to be possible quantum mechanically. The primary idea is to exploit quantum effects to beat the shot-noise limit in metrology and the Rayleigh diffraction limit in imaging and sensing. Quantum optical metrology has received a boost in recent years with an influx of ideas from the rapidly evolving field of optical quantum information processing. Both areas of research exploit the creation and manipulation of quantum-entangled states of light. We will review some of the recent theoretical and experimental advances in this exciting new field of quantum optical metrology, focusing on examples that exploit a particular two-mode entangled photon state – the High-N00N state.     

Entangled photon states recovery and cloning via the micro ring resonators and an add/drop multiplexer

We propose a new system of the entangled photon generation and recovery using a Gaussian pulse traveling within the nonlinear micro ring resonators, whereas the cloning feasibility of the entangled photon states via an add/drop multiplexer is also proposed. Firstly, the optimum entangled photon visibility is generated by using the Gaussian pulse in the ring resonators, where the second harmonic pulses are generated by filtering the chaotic signals. Secondly, the small amount of the transmission power is coupled by the add/drop device, whereas the entangled photon states, i.e. cloning states, are regenerated by using the polarization control unit. Results obtained have shown that the recovery entangled photon states can be made and confirmed with the initial states, which means that the cloning of entangled photon states of the initial states is plausible. The amplified entangled photon for state recovery is also discussed.     

Laser-induced photo-desorption in the Na/Cu(1 1 1) system

Desorption in the Na/Cu(1 1 1) system induced by an electronic excitation is studied using a quantal approach. The system is excited by a laser pulse in the fs range to the Na¹ state corresponding to the transient capture of an electron by the alkali adsorbate. The present quantal approach describes on an equal footing the laser-induced vibrational excitation of the adsorbate in the adsorption well and the photo-desorption process. It confirms earlier results using a semi-classical input. It also allows a discussion of the photo-desorption probability with the photon energy: the maximum of the desorption probability per absorbed photon occurs off-resonance in the high-energy wing of the electronic transition. This feature is related to the dynamics of the laser-induced process.