Polarization-Entanglement Purification for Ideal Sources Using Weak Cross-Kerr Nonlinearity

We propose an entanglement purification protocol (EPP) for ideal entangled photon sources resorting to weak cross-Kerr nonlinearities. The key element of this EPP is the quantum nondemolition detector (QND) which uses weak cross-Kerr nonlinearity effect to generate phase shifts on the coherent states conditionally. By exploiting the double cross-phase modulation (XPM) method in QND, we present an efficient EPP protocol, which reduces the requirement for coupling strength of the cross-Kerr nonlinearity medium. The proposed protocol may open up promising possibilities for the practicability of quantum information processing using weak cross-Kerr nonlinearities.     

New Quantum Private Comparison Protocol Using χ-Type State

We present a new quantum private comparison protocol based on the four-particle χ-type states. Different from previous protocols using the four-particle χ-type states, our protocol have some advantages. Without using the entangled character, we only need to prepare one type of χ-type state and N χ-type states. And we use the Pauli local unitary operation on particles to encode the information and to extract information by measurement. We also discuss that our protocol can withstand all various kinds of outside attacks and participant attacks.     

利用交叉克尔效应制备六光子纠缠态

利用弱非线性的交叉克尔介质和对强相干探测场的动量积分零拍探测,呈现了一个关于制备六光子最大纠缠态的方案,如实现制备Dicke态和W态.在本方案中,只要相干探测光场的强度足够大时,对交叉克尔介质的非线性强度要求可以较弱,因而当前实验技术条件上均能满足本方案的要求.考虑到目前实验上实现单光子很是相对困难的,在信号模上仅用弱的相干光替代单光子源,从而进一步增强了本方案的实验可行性.     

利用交叉克尔效应制备六光子纠缠态

利用弱非线性的交叉克尔介质和对强相干探测场的动量积分零拍探测,呈现了一个关于制备六光子最大纠缠态的方案,如实现制备Dicke态和W态.在本方案中,只要相干探测光场的强度足够大时,对交叉克尔介质的非线性强度要求可以较弱,因而当前实验技术条件上均能满足本方案的要求.考虑到目前实验上实现单光子很是相对困难的,在信号模上仅用弱...     

Scheme for Implementing Quantum Dense Coding with χ-Type Entangled States in Optical Systems

A novel scheme for realizing dense coding with χ-type entangled states in linear optical system is proposed. In this protocol, Alice encodes her classical information on photons by linear optical elements and sends these photons to Bob. Then Bob performs a sequent single-qubit measurement on all photons in the χ-type entangled state by employing linear optical elements. According to the outcomes of his measurement, Bob can determine what operation Alice performed. The scheme is based on linear optical elements, which is feasible with existing experimental technology.     

Generation of Cluster-Type Entangled Coherent States via Cross-Kerr Nonlinearity

We propose an optical scheme for the generation of the cluster-type entangled coherent states in free travelling optical fields via cross-Kerr nonlinearity. The required resources for the generation are coherent state source, beam splitters, photodetectors, and Kerr media. We also discuss the implementation of the Hadamard gate operation for coherent states and the homodyne detection.     

A nearly deterministic scheme for generation of multiphoton GHZ states with weak cross-Kerr nonlinearity

We propose a scheme to generate polarization-entangled multiphoton Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) states based on weak cross-Kerr nonlinearity and subsequent homodyne measurement. It can also be generalized to produce maximally N-qubit entangled states. The success probabilities of our schemes are almost equal to 1.     

A Kind Tripartite Entangled State Representation and?Its Application in Quantum Teleportation

We discuss entanglement for a tripartite system by setting up a new state vector representation |p,χ ₁,χ ₂〉 in three-mode Fock space. The Schmidt decomposition of |p,χ ₁,χ ₂〉 is presented and its application in teleporting a bipartite entangled state or a two-mode squeezed state to a pair of receivers is analyzed.     

Quantum teleportation of an entangled 2-photon polarization state with preparing determinately two Bell states based on cross-Kerr nonlinearity

A scheme, in which cross-Kerr nonlinearity is used for the Bell-state measurements and preparation of the resource of entanglement, is proposed for teleporting an entangled 2-photon state by using two polarization-photon Bell states as quantum channel based on cross-Kerr nonlinearity combined with linear optics elements such as polarization beam splitters and half wave plates. Teleportation of the entangled 2-photon polarization state can realized with certainty in principle.     

Maximal entanglement of bipartite spin states in the context of quantum algebra

In the framework of the U _q (su(2)) quantum algebra, we investigate the entanglement properties of two-spin systems, of arbitrary spins j ₁ and j ₂, defined in an entanglement of deformed spin coherent states of each of the spins. We derive the amount of entanglement and we give conditions under which bipartite entangled states become maximally entangled. Using these conditions, we construct a large class of Bell states for any choices of the parameters that specify the spin coherent states.     

Quantum Fisher Information in Two-Qubit Pure States

In terms of quantum Fisher information (QFI), a quantity χ ² was introduced by Pezzé and Smerzi (Phys. Rev. Lett. 102 100401, 2009). They pointed out that the inequality χ ²<1 was a sufficient condition for multiparticle entanglement. For the two-qubit symmetric states, we found that the inequality χ ²<1 is a necessary and sufficient condition for entanglement and spin squeezing, and that χ ² is equal to the second kind of spin squeezing parameter x₂²\xi _{2}^{2}. For the two-qubit asymmetric states, it is only a sufficient condition. In order to make it a necessary and sufficient condition, we extend the concept of the QFI and χ ², and generalize the relations among the entanglement measurement, the spin squeezing parameters and χ ² in symmetric pure states to arbitrary pure states.     

Efficient W polarization state distribution over an arbitrary collective-noise channel with cross-Kerr nonlinearity

We propose an efficient protocol for W polarization entangled state distribution over an arbitrary collective-noise channel with the help of the cross-Kerr nonlinearity. The entangled state in the frequency degree of freedom, which suffers little from the noise in an optical fiber, is used in the present protocol. The frequency entanglement can be transferred into polarization entanglement with the success probability of 100%. So, the three parities can share the maximally W polarization state with local operations and polarization independent wavelength division multiplexers which can erase distinguishability for frequency.     

Enhancement of Kerr nonlinearity and its application to entangled state discrimination

In this paper, the recent research on the enhanced Kerr nonlinearity and its application in entangled state discrimination is reported. Two kinds of dynamics, including interacting double dark resonances and spontaneously generated coherence, are presented to enhance the Kerr nonlinearity. The application of Kerr nonlinearity in quantum state discrimination is also discussed. An arbitrary Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger state can be discriminated using two-photon polarization parity detection which resorts to cross-Kerr nonlinearity between a single-photon qubit and probe field. In addition, a scheme for Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger state discrimination of matter qubits is also proposed using the dipole induced transparency in a cavity-dipole system.      

Direct measurement of the concurrence for two-photon polarization entangled pure states by parity-check measurements

We present a protocol for directly measuring the concurrence of a two-photon polarization entangled pure or mixed state without prior quantum state tomography. By parity-check measurements and simple operations on two copies of the two-photon polarization entangled pure state, the concurrence is encoded in the total probability of picking up the odd parity states from the signal states. This protocol makes use of highly efficient homodyne detection, and it could be feasible in the near future with the help of the weak cross-Kerr nonlinearity. Moreover, our protocol can be used in a distributed fashion to directly determine the entanglement of remote states, which may find its important applications in quantum communication.     

Kraus Operator-Sum Representation and Time Evolution of Distribution Functions in Phase-Sensitive Reservoirs

Using the thermal entangled state representation 〈η|, we examine the master equation (ME) describing phase-sensitive reservoirs. We present the analytical expression of solution to the ME, i.e., the Kraus operator-sum representation of density operator ρ is given, and its normalization is also proved by using the IWOP technique. Further, by converting the characteristic function χ(λ) into an overlap between two “pure states” in enlarged Fock space, i.e., χ(λ)=〈η _=−λ |ρ|η ₌₀〉, we consider time evolution of distribution functions, such as Wigner, Q- and P-function. As applications, the photon-count distribution and the evolution of Wigner function of photon-added coherent state are examined in phase-sensitive reservoirs. It is shown that the Wigner function has a negative value when kt\leqslant\frac 12ln( 1+m_￥) \kappa t\leqslant\frac {1}{2}\ln ( 1+\mu_{\infty}) is satisfied, where μ _∞ depends on the squeezing parameter |M|² of environment, and increases as the increase of |M|.     

The Controlled Teleportation of an Arbitrary Two-Atom Entangled State in Driven Cavity QED

In this paper, we propose a scheme for the controlled teleportation of an arbitrary two-atom entangled state |φ〉₁₂=a|gg〉₁₂+b|ge〉₁₂+c|eg〉₁₂+d|ee〉₁₂ in driven cavity QED. An arbitrary two-atom entangled state can be teleported perfectly with the help of the cooperation of the third side by constructing a three-atom GHZ entangled state as the controlled channel. This scheme does not involve apparent (or direct) Bell-state measurement and is insensitive to the cavity decay and the thermal field. The probability of the success in our scheme is 1.0.     

Direct measurement of the concurrence of hybrid entangled state based on parity check measurements

The hybrid entangled state is widely discussed in quantum information processing. In this paper, we propose the first protocol to directly measure the concurrence of the hybrid entangled state. To complete the measurement, we design parity check measurements(PCMs) for both the single polarization qubit and the coherent state. In this protocol, we perform three rounds of PCMs. The results show that we can convert the concurrence into the success probability of picking up the correct states from the initial entangled states. This protocol only uses polarization beam splitters, beam splitters, and weak cross-Kerr nonlinearities, which is feasible for future experiments. This protocol may be useful in future quantum information processing.     

Effective nonlinear optical properties of shape distributed composite media

The effective linear and nonlinear optical properties of metal/dielectric composite media, in which ellipsoidal metal inclusions are distributed in shape, are investigated. The shape distribution function P(L _x, L _y) is assumed to be 2Δ^-2θ(L _x - 1/3 + Δ/3)θ(L _y - 1/3 + Δ/3)θ(2/3 + Δ/3 - L _x - L _y), where θ( ^{. . .} ) is the Heaviside function, Δ is the shape variance and L_i are the depolarization factors of the ellipsoidal inclusions along i-symmetric axes (i = x, y). Within the spectral representation, we adopt Maxwell-Garnett type approximation to study the effect of shape variance Δ on the effective nonlinear optical properties. Numerical results show that both the effective linear optical absorption α ∼ ωIm() and the modulus of the effective third-order optical nonlinearity enhancement |χ⁽³⁾ _e|/χ⁽³⁾ ₁ exhibit the nonmonotonic behavior with Δ. Moreover, with increasing Δ, the optical absorption and the nonlinearity enhancement bands become broad, accompanied with the decrease of their peaks. The adjustment of Δ from 0 to 1 allows us to examine the crossover behavior from no separation to large separation between optical absorption and nonlinearity enhancement peaks. As Δ → 0, i.e., the ellipsoidal shape deviates slightly from the spherical one, the dependence of |χ⁽³⁾ _e|/χ⁽³⁾ ₁ on Δ becomes strong first and then weak with increasing the imaginary part of inclusions' dielectric constant. In the dilute limit, the exact formula for the effective optical nonlinearity is derived, and the present approximation characterizes the exact results better than old mean field one does. Received 10 December 2002 Published online 4 June 2003 RID="a" ID="a"e-mail: lgaophys@pub.sz.jsinfo.net     

Quantum Key Distribution Using a <Emphasis Type="Italic">χ</Emphasis>-Type State

By swapping the entanglement of χ-type state, we propose a quantum key distribution protocol, in which only Alice needs to prepare χ-type states and transmit a particle sequence. Both Alice and Bob need to perform χ-type state measurements.     

A Blind Quantum Signature Scheme with χ-type Entangled States

A blind quantum signature scheme with χ-type entangled states is proposed, which can be applied to E-voting system. In this scheme, the particles in χ-type state sequence are used for quantum key distribution first, and then for quantum signature. Our scheme is characterized by its blindness, impossibility of forgery, impossibility of disavowal. In addition, our scheme can perform an audit program with respect to the validity of the verification process in the light of actual requirements. The security of the scheme is also analyzed.