超冷里德堡原子的研究进展

超冷里德堡原子的Blockade效应对构建量子逻辑门以及量子信息存储的研究有重要意义。本文介绍了这方面的研究进展,主要包括:超冷里德堡原子之间长程Van de Waals相互作用和偶极-偶极相互作用的机理,由相互作用产生的Blockade效应,并阐述了利用单里德堡原子激发构建量子逻辑门的可能性。     

Off-diagonal Geometric Phase of Two-Qubit System

This paper focuses on the off-diagonal geometric phase of the thermal state of a two-qubit system under the external magnetic field. The properties of geometric phases of the state in critical and non-critical regions are discussed respectively. The sudden change of structure of degeneracy at the critical point do not affect the geometric phase of the model. Increasing temperature tends to suppress the off-diagonal geometric phase. The relationship between the geometric phase and external magnetic field is also discussed.     

Observation of the Dipole Blockade Effect in Detecting Rydberg Atoms by the Selective Field Ionization Method

The dipole blockade effect at laser excitation of mesoscopic ensembles of Rydberg atoms lies in the fact that the excitation of one atom to a Rydberg state blocks the excitation of other atoms due to the shift in the collective energy levels of interacting Rydberg atoms. It is used to obtain the entangled qubit states based on single neutral atoms in optical traps. In this paper, we present our experimental results on the observation of the dipole blockade for mesoscopic ensembles of 1–5 atoms when they are detected by the selective field ionization method. We have investigated the spectra of the three-photon laser excitation 5S1/2 → 5P3/2 → 6S1/2 → nP3/2 of cold Rydberg Rb atoms in a magneto-optical trap. We have found that for mesoscopic ensembles this method allows only a partial dipole blockage to be observed. This is most likely related to the presence of parasitic electric fields reducing the interaction energy of Rydberg atoms, the decrease in the probability of detecting high states, and the strong angular dependence of the interaction energy of Rydberg atoms in a single interaction volume.     

Geometric Phase of Two-Qubit System with Dissipative Effects

Geometric phase is investigated for two initially entangled qubits interacting with environment. We find that time-dependent Pancharatnam phase oscillates with almost the same frequency and slight different amplitude. The result provides a useful clue to implement geometric quantum calculation.     

超冷里德堡原子的产生以及探测

利用激光冷却与俘获技术获得冷原子,由双光子激发产生超冷里德堡原子,利用场电离法得到了里德堡原子ns和nd态的离子谱图;再将激光波长固定在6p3/2-34d态的共振跃迁线上,得到了离子和里德堡原子的TOF(Time of Flight)图,并对实验结果做了分析.     

A Geometric Characterization of Quantum Gates

Quantum gates are unitary operators and pure states are denoted by unit vectors in state spaces. A quantum gate (i.e., unitary operator) maps convex combinations of vectors in the closed unit ball of the state space to themselves. On the contrary, whether or not some kinds of convex combinations preserving maps on the closed unit ball of the state space are unitary. In the paper, we devote to giving an answer to the inverse problem.

     

微波调制的里德堡原子集体量子跳跃

对于一个三能级原子体系,原子的两个基态能级通过微波耦合起来,其中一个基态能级可被激发到里德堡态,从而可观察量子跳跃现象.本文采用量子轨线方法研究了微波调制的里德堡原子集体量子跳跃.研究结果表明,微波耦合基态能级可以提高光子关联,增强光子聚束效应,即使较少的原子中也可以观察到系统在高里德堡占据数态和低里德堡占据数态之间的切换.这一结果为将来进一步研究里德堡自旋晶格中的多体动力学提供了新思路.     

Experimental Observation of the Ground-State Geometric Phase of Three-Spin XY Model

The geometric phase has become a fundamental concept in many fields of physics since it was revealed.Recently,the study of the geometric phase has attracted considerable attention in the context of quantum phase transition,where the ground state properties of the system experience a dramatic change induced by a variation of an external parameter.In this work,we experimentally measure the ground-state geometric phase of the threespin XY model by utilizing the nuclear magnetic resonance technique.The experimental results indicate that the geometric phase could be used as a fingerprint of the ground-state quantum phase transition of many-body systems.     

Unconventional Geometric Phase-Shift Gates Based on Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices Coupled to a Single-Mode Cavity

We present a scheme to realize geometric phase-shift gate for two superconducting quantum interference device （SQUID） qubits coupled to a single-mode microwave field. The geometric phase-shift gate operation is performed in two lower flux states, and the excited state [2〉 would not participate in the procedure. The SQUIDs undergo no transitions during the gate operation. Thus, the docoherence due to energy spontaneous emission based on the levels of SQUIDs are suppressed. The gate is insensitive to the cavity decay throughout the operation since the cavity mode is displaced along a circle in the phase space, acquiring a phase conditional upon the two lower flux states of the SQUID qubits, and the cavity mode is still in the original vacuum state. Based on the SQUID qubits interacting with the cavity mode, our proposed approach may open promising prospects for quantum iogic in SQUID-system.     

Unconventional Geometric Phase-Shift Gates Based on Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices Coupled to a Single-Mode Cavity

We present a scheme to realize geometric phase-shift gate for two superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) qubits coupled to a single-mode microwave field. The geometric phase-shift gate operation is performed transitions during the gate operation. Thus, the docoherence due to energy spontaneous emission based on the levels of SQUIDs are suppressed. The gate is insensitive to the cavity decay throughout the operation since the cavity mode is displaced along a circle in the phase space, acquiring a phase conditional upon the two lower flux states of the SQUID qubits, and the cavity mode is still in the original vacuum state. Based on the SQUID qubits interacting with the cavity mode, our proposed approach may open promising prospects for quantum logic in SQUID-system.     

Two-Qubit Logic Gates and Teleportation of an Entangled State of Atom-Cavity with Cavity QED

In this paper, a scheme is proposed for realization of two-qubit controlled-not gates and teleportation of an entangled state of atom-cavity. In this scheme, applying hyperfine levels of atom, we consider A-type three-level atom interacting resonantly or nonresonantly with cavity field that is prepared in σ- polarized. We consider the experimental feasibility of this scheme and compare our results with other schemes.     

The n-Qubit W State of Ground-State Atoms Using Cavity QED and Single Photon Detection

We present a simple scheme for the probabilistic generation of the $n$-qubit W state of three-level systems in cavity quantum electrodynamics. Once the W state is prepared, it will be insensitive to the spontaneous emission of atoms due to the fact that only the two degenerate ground states of the three-level atoms are involved. With time evolution of the system, the success probability and the experimental feasibility are also discussed.     

Experimental Research of Spontaneous Evolution from Ultracold Rydberg Atoms to Plasma

The spontaneous evolution from ultracold Rydberg atoms to plasma is investigated in a caesium MOT by using the method of field ionization. The plasma transferred from atoms in different Rydberg states （n = 22-32） are obtained experimentally. Dependence of the threshold time of evolving to plasma and the threshold number of initial Rydberg atoms on the principal quantum number of initial Rydberg states is studied. The experimental results are in agreement with hot-cold Rydberg-Rydberg atom collision ionization theory.     

电场中Rydberg原子的常数标度能谱方法

标度能谱理论能够简化外场谱及可以经典方法理解原子外场谱而倍受关注。本文报道了用于电场中Rydberg原子常数标度能谱实验研究的装置以及有关的计算机控制、采集及处理系统。该系统对能量E和电场F进行同步控制以保持标度能谱ε=E/F为常数，并成功地得到Rydberg态Sr原子在标度能ε=-3.0时的标度能谱，经过傅里叶变换，获得了电场中Sr原子的电子回归谱。