Single-atom entropy squeezing for two two-level atoms interacting with a single-mode radiation field

In this paper we consider a system of two two-level atoms interacting with a single-mode quantized electromagnetic field in a lossless resonant cavity via l-photon-transition mechanism. The field and the atoms are initially prepared in the coherent state and the excited atomic states, respectively. For this system we investigate the entropy squeezing, the atomic variances, the von Neumann entropy and the atomic inversions for the single-atom case. Also we comment on the relationship between spin squeezing and linear entropy. We show that the amounts of the nonclassical effects exhibited in the entropy squeezing for the present system are less than those produced by the standard Jaynes-Cummings model. The entropy squeezing can give information on the corresponding von Neumann entropy. Also the nonclassical effects obtained from the asymmetric atoms are greater than those obtained from the symmetric ones. Finally, the entropy squeezing gives better information than the atomic variances only for the asymmetric atoms.     

Time reversible evolution via nonadiabatic coupling in adiabatic dark subspace

We propose a method for the creation of arbitrary superposition of N atomic states using generalized stimulated Raman adiabatic passage (STIRAP) techniques with laser fields coupling each one of N lower states to a single upper state in a (N+1)-level atomic system. (N-1) dark states that are composed of N lower states span a dark subspace. In the adiabatic limit, the dark and bright subspaces are decoupled, thus the nonadiabatic interaction within this dark subspace dominates the evolution of the system. Different from general methods to create our required coherent superposition state, in a reverse way, here we consider the required state as the starting point of evolution dynamics, and utilize laser fields to drive it into a single lower state step by step. Time reverse pulses of laser fields return the single lower state back to our required coherent superposition state based on time reversal symmetry. In principle, the computationally simple method allows the case with a large value of N. Based on the STIRAP techniques, it is robust against small variations of parameters of laser pulses and is immune to spontaneous radiation.     

Spin squeezing and entanglement via hole-burning in atomic coherent states

We study the generation of spin squeezing via the hole burning of selected Dicke states out of an atomic coherent state prepared for a collection of N two-level atoms or ions. The atoms or ions of the atomic coherent state are not entangled, but the removal of one or more Dicke states generates entanglement, and spin squeezing occurs for some ranges of the relevant parameters. Spin squeezing in a collection of two-level atoms or ions is of importance for precision spectroscopy.     

Atomic coherent states and reduced quantum fluctuations in optical transients

We show that the atomic coherent states (the Bloch states) commonly encountered in coherent transient phenomena exhibit squeezing. We illustrate this property calculating the degree of squeezing and the normalized correlation coefficient g⁽²⁾ for a system of N two-level atoms interacting with a cw laser electric field.     

Generation of Quantum States for Atomic Ensemble via Cavity QED

A scheme is proposed for generating quantum states of atomic ensemble. In this scheme, a beam of three-level atoms in the Λ configuration is trapped in a cavity, then squeezed vacuum state and squeezed coherent state of the atomic ensemble are prepared by choosing different initial states of the system. The scheme is based on the off-resonant interaction between the atom and cavities, so the high-level of the atom is eliminated adiabatically.     

Entangled Finite Dimensional Pair Coherent States and Their Applications

Intermediate states of electromagnetic field are reviewed. It is a type of the correlated two-mode states (converter state). Based on the resonant ion-cavity interaction, we propose a scheme to generate these states revealing their connection with the converter state. The practical feasibility of this method is also discussed. We discuss nonclassicality of a finite dimensional pair coherent states in terms of sub-Poissonian photon statistics as well as the negativity of the Wigner function after deriving the analytic expression for the Wigner function. We explore a superposition of two finite dimensional pair coherent states. We show that such states possess inherent nonclassical properties such as sub-Poissonian distribution, anti-correlation between the two modes and violation of Cauchy-Schwarz inequalities. The s-parameterized characteristic function (CF) is considered. The phase distribution in the framework of Pegg and Barnett formalism, W-function and Q-function are discussed. Furthermore, a two-level atom in interaction with a two-mode quantized electromagnetic fields besides a frequency converter interaction initially prepared in an entangled two-mode coherent state is presented. Exact solution of the wave function in the Schrödinger picture is obtained. Some statistical aspects of this model are presented. The results are employed to perform a careful investigation of the temporal evolution of the atomic inversion, entropy squeezing and variance squeezing. General conclusions reached are illustrated by numerical results.     

Bipartite entanglement within the framework of real and ideal lasers

We study the nonlocal correlations and quantum entanglement for two deformed bosonic fields of arbitrary deformation parameters, q ₁ and q ₂, prepared in an entanglement of deformed coherent states. As a measure of entanglement, we use the von Neumann entropy and investigate its behavior for different strength regimes of the optical fields. We find that the photon number can enhance the von Neumann entropy, and the deformation parameters can restrain the system entanglement.     

Preparation and control of entangled states in the two-mode coherent fields interacting with a moving atom via two-photon process

We investigate the preparation and the control of entangled states in a system with the two-mode coherent fields interacting with a moving two-level atom via the two-photon transition. We discuss entanglement properties between the two-mode coherent fields and a moving two-level atom by using the quantum reduced entropy, and those between the two-mode coherent fields by using the quantum relative entropy. In addition, we examine the influences of the atomic motion and field-mode structure parameter $p$ on the quantum entanglement of the system. Our results show that the period and the duration of the prepared maximal atom-field entangled states and the frequency of maximal two-mode field entangled states can be controlled, and that a sustained entangled state of the two-mode field, which is independent of atomic motion and the evolution time, can be obtained, by choosing appropriately the parameters of atomic motion, field-mode structure, initial state and interaction time of the system.     

Entanglement Degree of Finite-Dimensional Pair Coherent States

We study in detail the entanglement degree of finite-dimensional pair coherent states (PCSs) in terms of different parameters involved in the coherent states. Since these states are a type of correlated two-mode states in finite dimension, we use the D concurrence and linear entropy to quantify their amount of entanglement. We show that the maximum entanglement can be obtained for two and threedimensional (finite-dimensional) PCSs, and states with higher dimensions cannot attain this limit. We generalize the discussion to a superposition of two states of this class and give the maximum entangled states for even and odd finite-dimensional PCSs. In addition, we consider the entanglement degree of nonlinear finite-dimensional PCSs and survey the maximality condition. Finally, we discuss the entanglement for a class of mixed states defined as a statistical mixture of two pure finite-dimensional PCSs. Our observations may have important implications in exploiting these states in quantum information theory.     

Decoherence suppression by cavity optomechanical cooling

We consider a cavity optomechanical cooling configuration consisting of a mechanical resonator (denoted as resonator b) and an electromagnetic resonator (denoted as resonator a), which are coupled in such a way that the effective resonance frequency of resonator a depends linearly on the displacement of resonator b. We study whether back-reaction effects in such a configuration can be efficiently employed for suppression of decoherence. To that end, we consider the case where the mechanical resonator is prepared in a superposition of two coherent states and evaluate the rate of decoherence. We find that no significant suppression of decoherence is achievable when resonator a is assumed to have a linear response. On the other hand, when resonator a exhibits Kerr nonlinearity and/or nonlinear damping the decoherence rate can be made much smaller than the equilibrium value provided that the parameters that characterize these nonlinearities can be tuned close to some specified optimum values.     

Two-photon correlation of radiation emitted by two excited atoms: Detailed analysis of a dicke problem

A radiative interaction in a collective two-atom system forms subradiant and superradiant states when the distance between neighboring atoms is less than half a wavelength of resonant radiation. We calculate the G ⁽²⁾ function depending on the atomic separation and detection angle and show that it oscillates with a time delay between two successively emitted photons. These oscillations are the signature of coherent effects due to the periodic emission and absorption of photons by each atom.     

关于n平面线性相干光处理系统的讨论(Ⅱ)

依据傅里叶变换的相似性定理和空间频率的标度变换,研究了n平面线性相干光处理系统的一般性质。假定原原统的间距参数为{z_i}_n-1。首先证明:这一系统等价于任意参数为{zo_i}_n-1的系统。其次讨论上述两个n平面系统的积分核之间的关系。 关键词：     

Quantum Treatment of the Interaction Between an N-Level Atom and Two Noninteracting Two-Level Atoms

We consider the problem of two two-level atoms interacting with N-level atom. We obtain the exact solution for the wave function for the case where both atoms are identical and the system is treated at exact resonance. We use the results obtained for discussing the temporal evolution of the atomic inversion, in particular, the collapse and revival phenomena. We build up our discussion on the variation of the atomic number j and the atomic angle θ. For small j, the system exhibits a small period of collapse, and for large j we observe a long period of revival. We employ the linear entropy in the discussion of entanglement. We show that the atomic angle θ influences the system in such a way that the period of partial entanglement increases with increase in the value of θ. In addition to the variance squeezing, we also examine the entanglement between the spinors and show that the squeezing phenomenon occurs in the second quadrature, being absent in the first quadrature. Also we realize that the squeezing phenomenon reaches its maximum and gets more pronounced for a small value of the atomic number and a large value of the atomic angle.     

Quantum properties of the three-mode squeezed operator: Triply concurrent parametric amplifiers

In this paper, we study the quantum properties of the three-mode squeezed operator. This operator is constructed from the optical parametric oscillator based on the three concurrent χ⁽²⁾ nonlinearities. We give a complete treatment for this operator including the symmetric and asymmetric nonlinearity cases. The action of the operator on the number and coherent states is studied in the framework of squeezing, second-order correlation function, Cauchy-Schwartz inequality and single-mode quasiprobability function. The nonclassical effects are remarkable in all these quantities. We show that the nonclassical effects generated by the asymmetric case-for certain values of the system parameters-are greater than those of the symmetric one. This reflects the important role for the asymmetry in the system. Moreover, the system can generate particular types of the superposition states.     

Tomography vs quantum control for a three-level atom

We investigate the possibilities of controlling and reconstructing the state of a single three-level atom. We propose a physical scheme where information about the atomic state is extracted by measuring the total number of excitations after successive application of electromagnetic field pulses. We show that, in the non-degenerate case (different transition frequencies for different atomic transitions), a three-level atom is completely controllable and its state can be completely reconstructed. In the degenerate case (when both atomic transitions are identical), we consider two dynamically inequivalent configurations, Λ and Ξ. In this case, we show that the density matrix can always be completely reconstructed whereas their respective system cannot be completely controlled. We explain why this last incompatibility between control and tomography arises.     

Concurrence and Negativity as a Family of Two Measures Elaborated for Pure Qudit States

We investigate entangled states of an atomic trapped ion interacting with two phonons in the Λ configuration forming a twelve-dimensional Hilbert space. We study two elaborated measures, namely, the concurrence C and negativity N, which are important in current theoretical studies. Therefore, we work with the three-dimensional reduced density matrix in calculating the measures elaborated for pure qudit states in the ionic–phononic system. To demonstrate the benefits of the family of the two measures elaborated, we perform the calculations for different values of the Lamb–Dicke (LD) parameter η = 0.01, 0.3, and 0.5. Finally, we show that the pure qudit states under study are maximum entangled states.     

Critique of generalised purity as an entanglement measure: Explicit failure in simple separable Bose–Hubbard models

The SU(2) and SU(3) Lie algebras lend themselves naturally to studies of two- and three-well Bose–Einstein condensates, with the group operators being expressed in terms of bosonic annihilation and creation operators at each site. The success of these representations has led to the purities associated with these algebras to be promoted as a measure of entanglement in these systems. In this work, we show that these purities do not provide an unambiguous measure of entanglement between wells, but instead give results which depend on the quantum statistical states of the atomic ensembles in each well. Using the example of totally uncoupled wells where the atoms in one have never interacted with the atoms in the other, we quantify these purities for different states and show that completely separable states can give values which have been claimed to indicate the presence of entanglement. We also consider claims that the generalised purities measure particle rather than mode entanglement, with emphasis on the case of indistinguishable bosons, as found in these systems.     

Generalized Coherent States for <Emphasis Type="Italic">q</Emphasis>-Deformed Hyperbolic Pöshel-Teller Potential

In this paper, we solve the Schrödinger equation for q-deformed hyperbolic Pöshel-Teller (PT) potential and we obtain the wave function and ladder operators for it. We show that these operators satisfy commutation relations of su(2) Lie algebra. Then we build the generalized coherent states for this q-deformed potential. We show that for the case q=1, we can obtain the same generalized coherent states for usual hyperbolic PT potential.     

Coherent states and global entanglement in an N qubit system

We consider an N qubit system and show that in the symmetric subspace, S, a pure state is not globally entangled, iff it is a coherent state. It is also proven that in the orthogonal complement S_⊥ all states are globally entangled.     

Entanglement of Two Coupled Atoms in the Presence of a Time-Dependent External Magnetic Field

We study the problem of a time-dependent nonuniform magnetic field in the Heisenberg chain. We consider two cases: a single two-level atom and N-level atoms affecting by the magnetic field. We obtain the wave function and use it for calculating the expectation values of the dynamical operators, more precisely, the atomic inversion, in order to study the phenomena of revivals and collapses. Furthermore, we obtain the expectation value of other operators of the SU(2) group and discuss the phenomenon of squeezing. We show that the phase angle η and the detuning parameter δ are the most substantial parameters of the model under consideration.