Creating Atom-Molecule Entanglement from a Two-Species Atomic Bose Condensate

In this paper, we propose a feasible scheme to create macroscopic atom-molecule entanglement from a two-species atomic Bose-Einstein condensate, focusing on the role of the initial populations imbalance Δ of the two species. We find that, by tuning the value of Δ and/or the initial quantum statistics of the atoms, the atom-heteronuclear molecule entanglement can be indeed realized.     

Quantum Entropy of a Nonlinear Two-level Atom with Atomic Motion

The wave function of a system governed by the time-dependent nonlinear Jaynes-Cummings (JC) model is obtained. We compute analytically the eigenvalues of the reduced field density operator by which the dynamics of the entropy of entanglement of the cavity field are analyzed. The influences of the atomic motion, the field-mode structure and the Kerr-like medium on this phenomenon are illustrated. The population dynamics of an excited atom is also discussed for the same set of parameters. The cavity field is assumed to be initially excited in either a Fock or a coherent states. The cavity excitation in a Fock state generates a class of an entanglement without death with fixed amplitude by adjusting the parameters of the atomic motion as well as the Kerr and the field-mode structure. In case of a coherent cavity, the only phenomenon to be noted is the periodical behavior of the dynamics under study when the atomic motion is considered. Although the Kerr medium affects the strength of the entanglement negatively, the entropy of entanglement loses its zeros where the Kerr is taken into consideration.     

Entanglement and Quantum Superposition of a Macroscopic-Macroscopic system

Two quantum Macro-states and their Macroscopic Quantum Superpositions (MQS) localized in two far apart, space-like separated sites can be non-locally correlated by any entangled couple of single-particles having interacted in the past. This novel “Macro-Macro” paradigm is investigated on the basis of a recent study on an entangled Micro-Macro system involving N≈10⁵ particles. Crucial experimental issues as the violation of Bell’s inequalities by the Macro-Macro system are considered.     

Entanglement and Density Matrix of a Block of Spins in AKLT Model

We study a 1-dimensional AKLT spin chain, consisting of spins S in the bulk and S/2 at both ends. The unique ground state of this AKLT model is described by the Valence-Bond-Solid (VBS) state. We investigate the density matrix of a contiguous block of bulk spins in this ground state. It is shown that the density matrix is a projector onto a subspace of dimension . This subspace is described by non-zero eigenvalues and corresponding eigenvectors of the density matrix. We prove that for large block the von Neumann entropy coincides with Renyi entropy and is equal to . NSF Grant DMS-0503712.     

Multipartite Entanglement Preparation and Quantum Communication with Atomic Ensembles

We propose an experimentally feasible scheme to generate Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger type of maximal entanglement among three atomic ensembles, and show one of the applications, controlled secure direct communication. The scheme involves laser manipulation of atomic ensembles, quarter- and half-wave plates, beam splitters, polarizing beam splitters and single-photon detectors, which are within the reach of current experimental technology.     

Continuous Variable Entanglement and Violation of Bell Inequality for Two Modes in a Three-Level Cascade Atomic System

Continuous variable entanglement and violation of Bell inequality for two modes are investigated in a three-level cascade atomic system. Entanglement of the system is demonstrated according to the entanglement criterion [Phys. Rev. Lett. 84 （2000）2722]. Violation of Bell inequality is studied within the framework of a quantum theory of multiwave mixing. It is shown that there are some states that are entangled but do not violate the Bell inequality.     

Sudden Death and Long-Lived Entanglement Between Two Atoms in a Double JC Model System

Considering a double JC model with different coupling constants, we investigate the entanglement between the two two-level atoms, and discuss dependence of the atom-atom entanglement on the different coupling constants, and the detuning between the atomic transition frequency and the cavity field frequency. The results show when Δ=δ/g is small, with the increase of the relative difference of the two atom-cavity coupling constants γ, the atom-atom entanglement periodically evolves with the amplitude slowly and periodically modulated. What’s more interesting is that long-lived entanglement between the two atoms can be obtained when atom A non-resonantly interacts with the cavity field a, and atom B has no coupling with the cavity field b. In this case, the concurrence C ^AB (t) of the two atoms evolves in form of cosine, and is invariant and equals the initial value when far off resonance. In addition, we find that the so-called entanglement sudden death can occur under appropriate conditions on the detunings and the different coupling constants for different initial atomic states.     

Radiation Laws of a Kerr Nonlinear Blackbody in a Moving Frame of Reference

A Kerr nonlinear blackbody (KNB) is a new kind of blackbody in which bare photons with opposite wave vectors and helicities are bound into pairs and unpaired photons are transformed into nonpolaritons. In the present paper, the radiation of a KNB is considered from the viewpoint of an observer in arbitrary uniform motion with respect to a rest frame of reference of the radiation. It is found that the radiation laws, which include the distribution of nonpolaritons and so forth, are modified due to the motion. Moreover, under a special condition, we notice that the only effect of the motion is to introduce an angle-dependent directional temperature, which replaces the rest-frame temperature of the cavity. Besides, we try to extend the model of a KNB to the whole Universe and apply the modified radiation laws to the question of 2.7 K cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR).     

Bi-partite Entanglement Entropy in Massive QFT with a Boundary: the Ising Model

In this paper we give an exact infinite-series expression for the bi-partite entanglement entropy of the quantum Ising model in the ordered regime, both with a boundary magnetic field and in infinite volume. This generalizes and extends previous results involving the present authors for the bi-partite entanglement entropy of integrable quantum field theories, which exploited the generalization of the form factor program to branch-point twist fields. In the boundary case, we isolate in a universal way the part of the entanglement entropy which is related to the boundary entropy introduced by Affleck and Ludwig, and explain how this relation should hold in more general QFT models. We provide several consistency checks for the validity of our form factor results, notably, the identification of the leading ultraviolet behaviour both of the entanglement entropy and of the two-point function of twist fields in the bulk theory, to a great degree of precision by including up to 500 form factor contributions.     

Entropy and Entanglement of a Single-mode Vacuum Field Interacting with a Ξ-type Three-level Atom with Detuning

The evolution of the field entropy and the entanglement between the atom and the field for the system of a single-mode vacuum field interacting with a Ξ-type three-level atom have been studied by using the reduced quantum entropy. The influences of the detuning of the light field and the setting of the initial state of the atom on the field entropy and entanglement of the system under consideration are discussed emphatically. It is showed that the detuning of the light field and the setting of the initial state of the atom play an important role for the evolution of the field entropy and the entanglement between the atom and the field. The general conclusions reached are illustrated by numerical results.     

Statistical Distribution of Quantum Entanglement for a Random Bipartite State

We compute analytically the statistics of the Renyi and von Neumann entropies (standard measures of entanglement), for a random pure state in a large bipartite quantum system. The full probability distribution is computed by first mapping the problem to a random matrix model and then using a Coulomb gas method. We identify three different regimes in the entropy distribution, which correspond to two phase transitions in the associated Coulomb gas. The two critical points correspond to sudden changes in the shape of the Coulomb charge density: the appearance of an integrable singularity at the origin for the first critical point, and the detachment of the rightmost charge (largest eigenvalue) from the sea of the other charges at the second critical point. Analytical results are verified by Monte Carlo numerical simulations. A short account of part of these results appeared recently in Nadal et al. (Phys. Rev. Lett. 104:110501, 2010).     

Nonlinear optical absorption and refraction in Ru, Pd, and Au nanoparticle suspensions

We present the results of studies of the nonlinear optical properties of Pd, Ru, and Au nanoparticles. We studied the nonlinear refraction and nonlinear absorption of suspensions of these nanoparticles at 1064-nm wavelength. A relatively strong nonlinear absorption of the Pd nanoparticles was observed in the case of 1064-nm, 50-ps pulses (β=2×10⁻⁹ m W⁻¹). The Ru and Pd nanoparticles showed weak negative nonlinear refraction (γ∼−(6–8)×10⁻¹⁶ m² W⁻¹) in this spectral range. In the case of the Au nanoparticles, a saturated absorption at 532 nm dominated over other nonlinear optical processes.     

Atomic Matter-wave Hartman Effect

Quantum mechanically, a particle can tunnel a potential barrier. The tunneling time of a particle through a potential barrier can be shorter in the appropriate case than that of its free flying. In this paper, we propose a scheme to directly measure the quantum tunneling time by employing the coherent matter wave packet of cold atoms through laser beams. In our scheme, two Raman laser beams are used to form the potential barrier of a ＂bright state＂ of the atoms. The ＂dark state＂ of the atoms doesn＇ t ＂ see＂ the laser beams and acts as a reference in the measurement of the tunneling time. We analyse the reliability of the scheme in detail.     

Finite-Temperature Entanglement Dynamics in an Anisotropic Two-Qubit Heisenberg Spin Chain

This paper investigates the entanglement dynamics of an anisotropic two-qubit Heisenberg spin chain in the presence of decoherence at finite temperature. The time evolution of the concurrence is studied for different initial Werner states. The influences of initial purity, finite temperature, spontaneous decay and Hamiltonian on the entanglement evolution are analyzed in detail. Our calculations show that the finite temperature restricts the evolution of the entanglement all the time when the Hamiltonian improves it and the spontaneous decay to the reservoirs can produce quantum entanglement with the anisotropy of spin-spin interaction. Finally, the steady-state concurrence which may remain non-zero for low temperature is also given.     

Establishing a Private Shared Reference Frame via the Distillation of Entanglement

We show that there is a contradiction within quantum mechanics. We derive a proposition concerning a quantum expectation value under the assumption of the existence of the directions in a spin-1/2 system. The quantum predictions within the formalism of von Neumann’s projective measurement cannot coexist with the proposition concerning the existence of the directions. Therefore, we have to give up either the existence of the directions or the formalism of von Neumann’s projective measurement. Hence there is a contradiction within the Hilbert space formalism of the quantum theory. This implies that there is no axiomatic system for the quantum theory. We need new physical theories in order to explain mathematically the handing of raw experimental data.     

Dynamical Creation of Entanglement and Steady Entanglement Between Two Spatially Separated Λ-Type Atoms

We report possibility of generating entanglement and steady entanglement between two identical atoms in free space with a very natural way when their spatial separation is on the order of wavelength or less. We show a dynamical creation of entanglement and steady entanglement due to the radiative coupling with different separable initial atomic states and study the entanglement properties about this atomic subsystem. Not only the creation of steady state entanglement is decided by the initial atomic states, but also the magnitude of the entanglement and the steady state entanglement are found to be strongly dependent on the initial states. We derive a master equation for the atomic subspace and solve it analytically to show how the spontaneous emission from the two atoms system induces entanglement and steady entanglement, the crossing coupling terms in master equation can enhance the entanglement value.     

Properties of Entropy and Entanglement of Two—Mode Nonlinear Coherent States

In this communication ,two-mode nonlinear coherent states are reviewed and special cases are given,Starting from a three-level atom coupled to two modes of radiation with any form of nonlinearties of the two-mode fields.we derive a Raman-coupled effective Hamiltonian by a unitary transformation,evaluated perturbatively in coupling constants.We use the quantum entropy to measure the degree of entanglement in the time development of an effective two-level atom interacting with two-mode nonlinear-coherent states.The results show that the nolinearity effect yields the superstructure of atomic Radi oscillations and the effect of the Stark shift changes the quasiperiod of the field entropy evolution and entanglement between the particle and the field.A possible experimental test of a new effect is proposed.     

Squeezing and Entanglement in Continuous Variable Systems

Based on total variance of a pair of Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) type operators, the generalized EPR entangled states in continuous variable systems are defined. We show that such entangled states must correspond to two-mode squeezing states whether these states are Gaussian or not and whether they are pure or not. With help of the relation between the total variance and the entanglement, the degree of such entangIement is also defined. Through analysing some specific cases, we see that this method is very convenient and easy in practical applications. In addition, an entangled state with no squeezing is studied, which reveals that there certainly exists something unknown about entanglement in continuous variable systems.     

Finite-Time Destruction of Entanglement and Non-Locality by Environmental Influences

Entanglement and non-locality are non-classical global characteristics of quantum states important to the foundations of quantum mechanics. Recent investigations have shown that environmental noise, even when it is entirely local in influence, can destroy both of these properties in finite time despite giving rise to full quantum state decoherence only in the infinite time limit. These investigations, which have been carried out in a range of theoretical and experimental situations, are reviewed here.     

Effect of Cavity Decay on the Coherent Control of Atomic Tunneling

In this paper we study the influence of cavity decay on the atomic tunneling and entanglement dynamics in a cavity QED system. The system consists of an atom in a double-well potential and a cavity. The results show that the cavity decay affects significantly the tunneling and the entanglement dynamics. The tunneling behaves as a damping-oscillating function of time in this case, while the entanglement shared between the internal and external degree of freedom of the atom exhibits the so-called entanglement sudden death (ESD).