超短脉冲抽运下频率一致纠缠光源量子特性实验研究

利用自发参量下转换过程产生的频率纠缠光源在量子信息处理及相关领域中 具有十分重要的应用. 本文利用中心波长为792 nm, 脉冲宽度小于20 fs的脉冲激光源抽运满足II类准相位 匹配条件的周期极化磷酸氧钛钾晶体, 实验产生了偏振相互正交的频率一致纠缠光子对. 基于Hong-Ou-Mandel干涉仪的二阶量子符合干涉装置, 测量到该纠缠双光子对的干涉可见度约为42%, 表明其频率不可分特性较理想频率一致纠缠光源大大降低. 通过理论分析给出, 由于超短脉冲光源对应的宽频谱带宽影响, 相位匹配函数中的高阶色散项不再忽略, 从而导致纠缠光子对的频率不可分性减弱. 进一步利用实验参数给出的数值模拟结果与实验结果符合, 证实了脉冲抽运源带宽对频率一致纠缠光源的量子不可分特性的影响. 关键词： 频率一致纠缠 Hong-Ou-Mandel干涉测量 符合计数     

Control of purity and entanglement for two spatially two-separated qubits via phase damping

Control of purity and entanglement of two two-qubits dispersively coupled to a field with a reservoir are investigated.Initially the qubits are entangled,while the field is either in a coherent state or a statistical mixture of two coherent states.For an alternative entanglement measure we calculate the negativity of the eigenvalues of the partially transposed density matrix.A measure related to the mutual entropy,namely the index of entropy,is employed to measure the entanglement.Its results agree well with the negativity.It is found that the entanglement and purity have strong sensitivity to phase damping.The asymptotic behaviour of the states of the field,the two two-qubits,and the total system fall into mixed states.     

Quantum phase control of entanglement

A method of phase control of entanglement in two-qubit systems is proposed. We show that by changing a relative phase of the pulses that drive the transitions in a two-qubit system with closed-loop couplings, one can control entanglement at will. The method relies on adiabatic dynamics via time-delayed pulse sequences and can be implemented with both resonant and nonresonant transitions.     

snapMRF: GPU-accelerated magnetic resonance fingerprinting dictionary generation and matching using extended phase graphs

Purpose:Magnetic resonance fingerprinting (MRF) is a state-of-the-art quantitative MRI technique with a computationally demanding reconstruction process, the accuracy of which depends on the accuracy of the signal model employed. Having a fast, validated, open-source MRF reconstruction would improve the dependability and accuracy of clinical applications of MRF.Methods:We parallelized both dictionary generation and signal matching on the GPU by splitting the simulation and matching of dictionary atoms across threads. Signal generation was modeled using both Bloch equation simulation and the extended phase graph (EPG) formalism. Unit tests were implemented to ensure correctness. The new package, snapMRF, was tested with a calibration phantom and an in vivo brain.Results:Compared with other online open-source packages, dictionary generation was accelerated by 10–1000× and signal matching by 10–100×. On a calibration phantom, T₁ and T₂ values were measured with relative errors that were nearly identical to those from existing packages when using the same sequence and dictionary configuration, but errors were much lower when using variable sequences that snapMRF supports but that competitors do not.Conclusion:Our open-source package snapMRF was significantly faster and retrieved accurate parameters, possibly enabling real-time parameter map generation for small dictionaries. Further refinements to the acquisition scheme and dictionary setup could improve quantitative accuracy.     

Fresnel phase matching: a universal phase matching scheme

We present new theoretical concepts for Fresnel phase matching. A guided wave approach is described, which allows us to intrinsically take into account all the physical processes involved. To cite this article: M. Raybaut et al., C. R. Physique 8 (2007).     

Characterizing entanglement via uncertainty relations

We derive a family of necessary separability criteria for finite-dimensional systems based on inequalities for variances of observables. We show that every pure bipartite entangled state violates some of these inequalities. Furthermore, a family of bound entangled states and true multipartite entangled states can be detected. The inequalities also allow us to distinguish between different classes of true tripartite entanglement for qubits. We formulate an equivalent criterion in terms of covariance matrices. This allows us to apply criteria known from the regime of continuous variables to finite-dimensional systems.     

Implementing remote controlled-NOT gates and entanglement swapping via geometric phase gates in ion-trap systems

We propose a scheme for the implementation of remote controlled-NOT gates and entanglement swapping via geometric phase gates in ion-trap systems. The proposed scheme uses the two ground states of the A-type ions as memory instead of the vibrational mode. And the system is robust against the spontaneous radiation and the dephasing.     

Implementing remote controlled-NOT gates and entanglement swapping via geometric phase gates in ion-trap systems

We propose a scheme for the implementation of remote controlled-NOT gates and entanglement swapping via geometric phase gates in ion-trap systems. The proposed scheme uses the two ground states of the $\Lambda$-type ions as memory instead of the vibrational mode. And the system is robust against the spontaneous radiation and the dephasing.     

相位阻尼通道下初始纠缠对纠缠演化的影响

研究了在非惯性系中相位阻尼通道下初始纠缠对纠缠演化的影响.结果发现:与振幅阻尼通道情况不同,当态参数不同而初始纠缠相同时,纠缠演化曲线重合.当Unruh单粒子态包含左右成分时,比只包含右成分时量子消相干现象更加严重,较早地出现了纠缠死亡现象,并且纠缠死亡时刻与初始纠缠无关.     

Two-photon detachment cross-section of atoms in the extended asymptotic model

Summary A previously proposed one-electron model for photoionization, referred to as extended asymptotic model [J. Mol. Struct. (Teochem) 166, 369 (1988)], is further developed to cope with two-photon ionization processes. A simple application of the approach to the case of the negative ion H⁻ is investigated and discussed. The authors of this paper have agreed to not receive the proofs for correction.     

Exploring energy-time entanglement using geometric phase

Using the signal and idler photons produced by parametric down-conversion, we report an experimental observation of a violation of the Bell inequality for energy and time based purely on the geometric phases of the signal and idler photons. We thus show that energy-time entanglement between the signal and idler photons can be explored by means of their geometric phases. These results may have important practical implications for quantum information science by providing an additional means by which entanglement can be manipulated.     

Electronic conductance via atomic wires: a phase field matching theory approach

A model is presented for the quantum transport of electrons, across finite atomic wire nanojunctions between electric leads, at zero bias limit. In order to derive the appropriate transmission and reflection spectra, familiar in the Landauer-Büttiker formalism, we develop the algebraic phase field matching theory (PFMT). In particular, we apply our model calculations to determine the electronic conductance for freely suspended monatomic linear sodium wires (MLNaW) between leads of the same element, and for the diatomic copper-cobalt wires (DLCuCoW) between copper leads on a Cu(111) substrate. Calculations for the MLNaW system confirm the correctness and functionality of our PFMT approach. We present novel transmission spectra for this system, and show that its transport properties exhibit the conductance oscillations for the odd- and even-number wires in agreement with previously reported first-principle results. The numerical calculations for the DLCuCoW wire nanojunctions are motivated by the stability of these systems at low temperatures. Our results for the transmission spectra yield for this system, at its Fermi energy, a monotonic exponential decay of the conductance with increasing wire length of the Cu-Co pairs. This is a cumulative effect which is discussed in detail in the present work, and may prove useful for applications in nanocircuits. Furthermore, our PFMT formalism can be considered as a compact and efficient tool for the study of the electronic quantum transport for a wide range of nanomaterial wire systems. It provides a trade-off in computational efficiency and predictive capability as compared to slower first-principle based methods, and has the potential to treat the conductance properties of more complex molecular nanojunctions.     

Quantum phase transitions and bipartite entanglement

We develop a general theory of the relation between quantum phase transitions (QPTs) characterized by nonanalyticities in the energy and bipartite entanglement. We derive a functional relation between the matrix elements of two-particle reduced density matrices and the eigenvalues of general two-body Hamiltonians of d-level systems. The ground state energy eigenvalue and its derivatives, whose nonanalyticity characterizes a QPT, are directly tied to bipartite entanglement measures. We show that first-order QPTs are signaled by density matrix elements themselves and second-order QPTs by the first derivative of density matrix elements. Our general conclusions are illustrated via several quantum spin models.     

Classifying N-qubit entanglement via Bell's inequalities

All the states of N qubits can be classified into N-1 entanglement classes from 2-entangled to N-entangled (fully entangled) states. Each class of entangled states is characterized by an entanglement index that depends on the partition of N. The larger the entanglement index of a state, the more entangled or the less separable is the state in the sense that a larger maximal violation of Bell's inequality is attainable for this class of state.     

Implementing entanglement teleportation via adiabatic passage

This paper proposes a scheme for implementing teleportation of an entangled state of two trapped atoms through adiabatic passage and photonic interference. The scheme is robust against certain noise such as atomic spontaneous emission and the detector inefficiency.     

利用两能级原子与腔场的相互作用转移纠缠

分析了大失谐情况下一个两能级原子和相干态腔场相互作用的特点;讨论了利用两能级原子和相干态腔场相互作用制备纠缠相干态的方法;提出了一个关于纠缠相干态的纠缠转移的方案。在这个纠缠转移的方案里,通讯伙伴之间使用的量子信道是由两个振幅相同位相相反的相干态构成的纠缠态。通过使用两能级原子和腔肠相干态的相互作用和两模正交态测量并在经典信息的帮助下完成了三个通讯伙伴之间的纠缠转移。随着近来腔量子电动力学技术的发展,这个方案是能够被实行的。     

Strong-field atomic phase matching

We interpret a learning-control experiment with the goal of optimizing multiphoton population transfer in atomic sodium in the strong-field limit. Despite multiple experimental constraints, a learning algorithm discovers optimal pulses that can be understood in terms of a simple dynamic picture of the atom-field interaction. We show that the shaped pulses counteract the dynamic Stark-induced stimulated emission that would otherwise impede the efficient use of a pi pulse to invert a multiphoton transition.     

Multipartite entanglement signature of quantum phase transitions

We derive a general relation between the nonanalyticities of the ground state energy and those of a subclass of the multipartite generalized global entanglement (GGE) measure defined by de Oliveira et al. [Phys. Rev. A 73, 010305(R) (2006)] for many-particle systems. We show that GGE signals both a critical point location and the order of a quantum phase transition (QPT). We also show that GGE allows us to study the relation between multipartite entanglement and QPTs, suggesting that multipartite but not bipartite entanglement is favored at the critical point. Finally, using GGE we were able, at a second-order QPT, to define a diverging entanglement length (EL) in terms of the usual correlation length. We exemplify this with the XY spin-1/2 chain and show that the EL is half the correlation length.