Generating mixtures of spatial qubits

In a recent letter [L. Neves, G. Lima, J.G. Aguirre Gómez, C.H. Monken, C. Saavedra, S. Pádua, Phys. Rev. Lett. 94 (2005) 100501], we presented a scheme for generating pure entangled states of spatial qudits (D-dimensional quantum systems) by using the momentum transverse correlation of the parametric down-converted photons. In this work, we discuss a generalization of this process to enable the creation of mixed states. With the technique proposed we experimentally generated a mixture of two spatial qubits.     

Resource reduction for simultaneous generation of two types of continuous variable nonclassical states

We demonstrate experimentally the simultaneous generation and detection of two types of continuous variable nonclassical states from one type-0 phase-matching optical parametric amplification (OPA) and subsequent two ring filter cavities (RFCs). The output field of the OPA includes the baseband ω₀ and sideband modes ω₀±nω_fsubjects to the cavity resonance condition, which are separated by two cascaded RFCs. The first RFC resonates with half the pump wavelength ω₀ and the transmitted baseband component is a squeezed state. The reflected fields of the first RFC, including the sideband modes ω₀±ω_f, are separated by the second RFC, construct Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen entangled state. All freedoms, including the filter cavities for sideband separation and relative phases for the measurements of these sidebands, are actively stabilized. The noise variance of squeezed states is 10.2 dB below the shot noise limit (SNL), the correlation variances of both quadrature amplitude-sum and quadrature phase-difference for the entanglement state are 10.0 dB below the corresponding SNL.     

Quantum cobwebs: Universal entangling of quantum states

Entangling an unknown qubit with one type of reference state is generally impossible. However, entangling an unknown qubit with two types of reference states is possible. To achieve this, we introduce a new class of states called zero sum amplitude (ZSA) multipartite, pure entangled states for qubits and study their salient features. Using shared-ZSA states, local operations and classical communication, we give a protocol for creating multipartite entangled states of an unknown quantum state with two types of reference states at remote places. This provides a way of encoding an unknown pure qubit state into a multiqubit entangled state.     

Generation of Different Classes of Multipartite Entanglement Using Cavity-QED

Using a system of cavity quantum electrodynamics(QED) we present two schemes for multipartite entanglement generation. In the first scheme, a three-level atom is interacting with three cavities successively. In the second one, two three-level atoms are interacted with a coherent optical cavity. These protocols allow us to generate the six classes of tripartite entanglement(GHZ, W, A-B-C, AB-C, C-AB, and B-AC class states) by controling the interaction time between atoms and cavities. Moreover, they allow us to generate entanglement between the cavity fields degrees of freedom(from the first scheme), and a mixed entanglement between the cavity field degrees of freedom and the atomic degrees of freedom.     

Superpositions of the dual family of nonlinear coherent states and their non-classical properties

Nonlinear coherent states (CSs) and their dual families were introduced recently. In this paper, we want to obtain their superposition and investigate their non-classical properties such as antibunching effect, quadrature squeezing and amplitude squared squeezing. For this purpose two types of superposition are considered. In the first type, we neglect the normalization factors of the two components of the dual pair, superpose them and then we normalize the obtained states, while in the second type we superpose the two normalized components and then again normalize the resultant states. As a physical realization, the formalism will then be applied to a special physical system with known nonlinearity function, i.e., Hydrogen-like spectrum. We continue with the (first type of) superposition of the dual pair of Gazeau-Klauder coherent states (GKCSs) as temporally stable CSs. An application of the proposal will be given by employing the Pöschl-Teller potential system. The numerical results are presented and discussed in detail, showing the effects of this special quantum interference.     

Preparation of Squeezed State and Entanglement State Between Vibrational Motion of Trapped Ion and Light

Several schemes have been proposed to prepare two-mode squeezed state and entanglement state between motional states of a single trapped ion and light. Preparation of two-mode squeezed state is based on interaction of a trapped ion located in light cavity with cavity field. Preparation of entanglement state is based on interaction of a trapped ion located in light cavity with cavity field and a traveling wave light field.     

Arithmetic of the Integer Quantum Hall Effect

The integer quantum Hall effect (IQHE) is analysed, considering the degeneracies of localized and extended states separately. Occupied localized and extended states are counted, and their variation is studied as a function of magnetic field. The number of current-carrying electrons is found to have a saw-tooth variation with magnetic field. The analysis addresses certain basic questions in the IQHE, particularly the one about floatation of extended states as the magnetic field tends to zero.     

Long-lived nuclear spin states in the solution NMR of four-spin systems

The existence of long-lived nuclear spin states in four-spin systems is explored by solution-state NMR experiments. Long-lived states are proved to exist in three different natural product molecules, each containing either a AA'BB' or a AA'XX' proton spin system. The measured state lifetimes are between four and eight times the spin-lattice relaxation time constants.     

Interaction of strong laser beam with He-atom using non-perturbative Floquet method

Non-perturbative Floquet method is used to investigate the interaction of strong linearly polarized light with He-atom. In the calculations, six lowest singlet target states and fifteen photon states are taken for absolute convergence. For allowed transitions, accurate oscillator strengths using configuration interaction wave-functions are used. A number of interesting features such as nonlinear effects at high intensities, line broadening, a dynamic Stark effect are obtained and explained.     

多粒子W态的绝热制备

通过利用时间依赖的外磁场,提出了绝热制备多粒子W态的新方法.同时给出了驱动n个自旋1/2粒子从未纠缠态到W态的相互作用哈密顿量以及绝热和非绝热演化条件,展示了能量和靶态布据随时间的演化图.     

Ab Initio MRD-CI Investigation of the Electronic Spectrum of Dichloromethanol Cl2CHOH

Multireference configuration interaction calculations (MRD-CI) are performed to compute excited states of dichloromethanol Cl₂CHOH, a species relevant to atmospheric chemistry. Oscillator strengths f are also calculated to predict the electronic spectrum. Four strong transitions calculated at 7.12 eV (1¹A″←X¹A′), 7.50 eV (2¹A″←X¹A′), 8.38 eV (3¹A″←X¹A′), and 8.8 eV (5¹A″←X¹A′) can serve as a guideline for experimental search. The corresponding triplet states are also given.     

Relation between initial conditions and entanglement sudden death for two-qubit extended Werner-like states

In this paper, the dynamical behavior of entanglement of an uncoupled two-qubit system, which interacts with inde- pendent identical amplitude damping environments and is initially prepared in the extended Werner-like （EWL） states, is investigated. The results show that whether entanglement sudden death （ESD） of an EWL state will occur or not depends on initial purity and concurrence. The boundaries between ESD states and ESD-free states for two kinds of EWL states are found to be different. Furthermore, some regions are shown where ESD states can be transformed into ESD-free states by local unitary operations.     

Preparation of Squeezed State and Entanglement State Between VibrationalMotion of Trapped Ion and Light

Several schemes have been proposed to prepare two-mode squeezed state and entanglement state between motional states of a single trapped ion and light. Preparation of two-mode squeezed state is based on interaction of a trapped ion located in light cavity with cavity field. Preparation of entanglement state is based on interaction of a trapped ion located in light cavity with cavity field and a traveling wave light field.     

Analysis of Vector Meson Transitions Among Heavy Quarkonium States

In this article,we study the vector meson transitions among the charmonium and bottomonium states with the heavy quark effective theory in a systematic way,and make predictions for the ratios among the vector meson decay widths of a special multiplet to another multiplet.The predictions can be confronted with the experimental data in the future.     

Localized electronic states in -layer-based superlattices with structural defects

Using an effect-barrier height method, we study the properties of the localized electronic states in an N-layer-based superlattice with structural defects within the framework of effective-mass theory. The coupling effect between normal and lateral degrees of freedom of an electron on the localized electronic states in both symmetric and asymmetric triple layer superlattices with structural defects has been considered numerically. The results show that the localized states display different behaviors in both symmetric and asymmetric structures in spite of the minibands being not influenced by the structural symmetry. Moreover, the coupling effect causes the minibands, minigaps and localized electron levels to depend on the transverse wave number k_xy. A brief physical analysis is given.     

Singlet excited states of anions with higher main group elements

Previous studies have shown that dipole-bound excited states exist for certain small anions. However, valence excited states have been reported for some closed-shell anions, but those with singlet valence excited states have, thus far, contained a single silicon atom. This work uses high-level coupled cluster theory previously shown to reproduce excited state energies to better than 0.1 eV compared with experiment in order to examine the electronic excited state properties of anions containing silicon and other higher main group atoms as well as their first row analogues. Of the 14 anions involved in this study, 9 possess bound excited states of some kind: CH₂SN^?, C₃H^?, CCSiH^?, CCSH^?, CCNH^?₂, CCPH^?₂, BH₃PH^?₂, AlH₃NH^?₂ and AlH₃PH^?₂. Two possess clear valence states: CCSiH^? and its first row analogue C₃H^?. Substantial mixing appears to be present in the valence and dipole-bound characters for the first excited state wavefunctions of many of the systems reporting excited states, but the mixing is most pronounced with the ammonia borane-like AlH₃NH^?₂, and AlH₃PH^?₂ anions. Inclusion of second row atoms in anions whose corresponding radical is strongly dipolar increases the likelihood for the existence of excited states of any kind, but among the systems considered to date with this methodology, only the nature of group 14 atoms in small, closed-shell anions has yet been shown to allow valence singlet excited states.     

Realistic teleportation of coherent states using squeezed vacuum states

This paper presents a realistic scheme for the teleportation of coherent states in which a two-mode squeezed vacuum state serves as the quantum channel and the position-sum and momentum-difference of two local modes serve as the measuring observables. The average fidelity of the teleportation of coherent states is derived for finite squeezing parameters and it turns out that fidelity greater than 1/2 cannot be achieved by using a classical channel alone and the probability distribution of the measurement result is a Gaussian distribution around the unknown parameter of the input coherent state with a width given by the squeezing parameter.     

利用腔场与可移动镜子的作用制备两种非经典态

描述了在腔场与可移动镜子相互作用系统中,适当选择作用时间,可以制备单模腔场与镜子的纠缠态,或腔场的薛定谔猫态;通过调节腔场的长度、圆频率,以及镜子的质量、振动频率等宏观物理量,可以获得不同的量子态.     

Manipulation of multiple electromagnetically induced two-photon transparency in a six-level atomic system

In the five-level K-type atomic system, by using another control field to couple the excited level of the coupling transition to the sixth higher excited level, a six-level atomic system is constructed. In this system, the multiple electromagnetically induced two-photon transparency has been investigated. What is more, if choosing the parameters of the control fields properly the triple transparency window will reduce to a double one which means that the multiple electromagnetically induced two-photon transparency can be manipulated in this system. The physical interpretation of these phenomena is given in terms of the dressed states and the dark states.     

Role of metastable states in circumventing laser pulse jitters in multi-step laser excitation experiments

The role of metastable states in circumventing laser pulse jitters in multi-step laser excitation of high-lying Rydberg and autoionizing states is discussed. A case study is presented where step-wise excitation of 3d4d ³G_3,4,5 states of Ca is achieved despite a large jitter between the laser pulses.