Quantum Entanglement Death Problem Depict in Two Atomic Systems

In this paper, we present a scheme that solves the entanglement death problem by using a quantum entanglement model. We solved this problem by analyzing the evolutionary properties of entanglement together with the time evolution of the two atomic systems that are independent of each other in space. We then design the related parameter of entanglement death and entanglement, in order to find out the cause of the entanglement death in order to address them, thereby improving the quality of quantum communication.     

Dynamical Creation of Entanglement and Steady Entanglement Between Two Spatially Separated Λ-Type Atoms

We report possibility of generating entanglement and steady entanglement between two identical atoms in free space with a very natural way when their spatial separation is on the order of wavelength or less. We show a dynamical creation of entanglement and steady entanglement due to the radiative coupling with different separable initial atomic states and study the entanglement properties about this atomic subsystem. Not only the creation of steady state entanglement is decided by the initial atomic states, but also the magnitude of the entanglement and the steady state entanglement are found to be strongly dependent on the initial states. We derive a master equation for the atomic subspace and solve it analytically to show how the spontaneous emission from the two atoms system induces entanglement and steady entanglement, the crossing coupling terms in master equation can enhance the entanglement value.     

Lower Bounds on the Squashed Entanglement for Multi-Party System

Squashed entanglement is a promising entanglement measure that can be generalized to multipartite case, and it has all of the desirable properties for a good entanglement measure. In this paper we present computable lower bounds to evaluate the multipartite squashed entanglement. We also derive some inequalities relating the squashed entanglement to other entanglement measures.     

Quantum Dynamics of Entanglement and Single Excitation Transfer in LH1-RC-Type Trimer

In this paper,we study quantum dynamics of entanglement and single excitation transfer(SET) in an LH1-RC-type trimer which can describe a basic unit cell in the LH1-RC complex in the photosynthetic process.It is shown that there exists a sudden change of entanglement at the critic point of quantum phase transition(QPT) of the system at low temperatures,the entanglement sudden change caused by the QPT is suppressed at higher temperatures.We investigate the influence of environment on entanglement and SET.We show the generation of the dephasing-assisted entanglement between a donor and an acceptor and the existence of the steady-state entanglement,and demonstrate the entanglement transfer from donor-donor entanglement to donor-acceptor entanglement in the dynamic evolution.We reveal the close relation between the SET probability and donor-acceptor entanglement.Especially,we find that the SET probability is proportional to the amount of donor-acceptor entanglement under certain conditions.     

耦合双Tavis-Cummings模型中的纠缠演化和转移特性

研究了由光纤模连接的两个Tavis-Cummings模型中纠缠演化和纠缠转移的特性。结果表明,初始两原子间的纠缠可转移为另两原子间的纠缠,在纠缠转移过程中,光纤模起到中间传递的作用。纠缠的转移与初始两原子间的纠缠、原子与腔场的耦合强度以及光纤模与腔场的耦合强度、原子与腔场的失谐量和腔场耗散有关。初始纠缠决定了另两原子间纠缠产生的大小;在原子与腔场的耦合强度一定的条件下,随着光纤模与腔场耦合强度的增强,纠缠转移的时间缩短,且产生的纠缠值增加;腔场耗散对纠缠演化的衰减影响是显著的,而失谐量的增加可以有效地抑制这一现象。在整个纠缠转移过程中,系统中其他任两子体系间的纠缠起到了桥梁的作用,实现了两量子纠缠态的远程传递和制备。     

Quantum Dynamics of Entanglement and Single Excitation Transfer in LH1-RC-Type Trimer

In this paper, we study quantum dynamics of entanglement and single excitation transfer (SET) in an LH1-RC-type trimer which can describe a basic unit cell in the LH1-RC complex in the photosynthetic process. It is shown that there exists a sudden change of entanglement at the critic point of quantum phase transition (QPT) of the system at low temperatures, the entanglement sudden change caused by the QPT is suppressed at higher temperatures. We investigate the influence of environment on entanglement and SET. We show the generation of the dephasing-assisted entanglement between a donor and an acceptor and the existence of the steady-state entanglement, and demonstrate the entanglement transfer from donor-donor entanglement to donor-acceptor entanglement in the dynamic evolution. We reveal the close relation between the SET probability and donor-acceptor entanglement. Especially, we find that the SET probability is proportional to the amount of donor-acceptor entanglement under certain conditions.     

光学体系宏观-微观纠缠及其在量子密钥分配中的应用

宏观-微观纠缠最早起源于“薛定谔的猫”思想实验, 是指在宏观体系与微观体系之间建立量子纠缠. 实现宏观-微观纠缠可以利用多种物理体系来完成, 本文重点介绍了在光学体系中制备和检验宏观-微观纠缠的发展过程. 从最初的受激辐射单光子量子克隆到光学参量放大, 再到相空间的位移操作, 实验上制备宏观-微观纠缠的方法取得了长足的进步. 利用非线性光学参量放大过程制备的宏观-微观纠缠的光子数可以达到10⁴量级, 人眼已经可以观察到, 因此使用人眼作为探测器来检验宏观-微观纠缠的实验开始出现. 但随后人们意识到, 粗精度的光子数探测器, 例如人眼, 无法严格判定宏观-微观纠缠的存在. 为了解决这个难题, 提出了一种巧妙的方法, 即在制备宏-微观纠缠后, 利用局域操作过程将宏观态再变为微观态, 通过判定微观纠缠存在的方法来判定宏微观纠缠的存在. 之后相空间的位移操作方法将宏观态的粒子数提高到10⁸, 并且实现了纠缠的严格检验. 利用光机械实现宏观-微观纠缠的方案也被提出. 由于量子密钥分配中纠缠是必要条件, 而宏观-微观纠缠态光子数较多这一优势可能会对量子密钥分配的传输距离有所提高. 本文介绍了利用相位纠缠的相干态来进行量子秘钥分配的方案, 探讨了利用宏观-微观纠缠实现量子密钥分配的可能性.     

Entanglement Dynamics and Transfer for Two-Qubit Werner-Like States in Markovian Environments

We investigate entanglement dynamics and transfer in a system of two identical independent qubits, each of them locally interacting with a bosonic reservoir. Starting from two-qubit extended Werner-like states, we have shown that the degree of entanglement of the initial states, Markovian environments and the purity can control the time of the two-qubit entanglement sudden death and the reservoirs’ entanglement sudden birth. Moreover, the phenomenon of entanglement sudden death/birth may occur depending on the values of parameters like purity or degree of entanglement of the initial state. When initial states are not pure, entanglement sudden death/birth always occurs, this will permit us to link the occurrence time of entanglement sudden death/birth and entanglement transfer to the purity or the degree of entanglement of the initial states.     

Local Properties of Entanglement and Application to Collapse

When a quantum system is macroscopic and becomes entangled with a microscopic one, entanglement is not immediately total, but gradual and local. A study of this locality is the starting point of the present work and shows unexpected and detailed properties in the generation and propagation of entanglement between a measuring apparatus and a microscopic measured system. Of special importance is the propagation of entanglement in nonlinear waves with a finite velocity. When applied to the entanglement between a macroscopic system and its environment, this study yields also new results about the resulting disordered state. Finally, a mechanism of wave function collapse is proposed as an effect of perturbation in the growth of local entanglement between a measuring system and the measured one by waves of entanglement with the environment.     

Standard Teleportation of One-Qubit State and Partial Teleportation of Two-Qubit State via X-States

In this article,we derive the explicit entanglement and fidelity expressions for a larger class of two-qubit states,namely,a seven-parameter family of so called X-states.The analytical expressions of the entanglement,the output entanglement and the average fidelity are obtained for this general model by using the concept of concurrence and average fidelity.We study the relations between quantum entanglement,the output entanglement,and the average fidelity for standard teleportation of one-qubit and partial teleportation of two-qubit state.We discover that the average fidelity and entanglement is not a simple dependence relation.The higher entangled system is helpful for teleportation.     

Entanglement within the quantum trajectory description of open quantum systems

The degree of entanglement in an open quantum system varies according to how information in the environment is read. A measure of this contextual entanglement is introduced based on quantum trajectory unravelings of the open system dynamics. It is used to characterize the entanglement in a driven quantum system of dimension 2 x infinity where the entanglement is induced by the environmental interaction. A detailed mechanism for the environment-induced entanglement is given.     

Non-equilibrium entanglement dynamics of a two-qubit Heisenberg XY system in the presence of an inhomogeneous magnetic field and spin-orbit interaction

Entanglement dynamics of an open two-qubit anisotropic XY Heisenberg system is investigated in the presence of an inhomogeneous magnetic field and spin-orbit interaction. We suppose that each qubit interacts with a separate thermal reservoir which is held in its own temperature. The asymptotical and the dynamical behavior of entanglement are analyzed. To distinguish between entanglement induced by the environment and entanglement due to the presence of inter-qubit interaction, the effects of spin-orbit parameter D and temperature difference parameter ΔT on the entanglement of the system have been investigated. We show that for a fixed set of the system parameters, entanglement can be produced just by adjusting the temperature difference between the reservoirs. The size of this entanglement, which is induced by temperature difference of reservoirs, increases as the spin-orbit parameter D increases. Also we find that, this environment induced entanglement can be improved if the qubit influenced by the weaker magnetic field is in contact with the hotter reservoir, i.e. indirect geometry of connection. In this case, the amount of asymptotic entanglement increases as D increases. Regardless of the geometry of connection, increasing D causes the appearance of entanglement in the larger regions of T_M-ΔT plane, therefore entanglement can exist in higher temperatures and temperature differences. Furthermore, increasing D enhances the amount of entanglement in these regions. We also show that the state of the system can be found in the maximally entangled state for the case of zero temperature reservoirs and large amount of the spin-orbit parameter.     

Effect of Cavity Decay on the Coherent Control of Atomic Tunneling

In this paper we study the influence of cavity decay on the atomic tunneling and entanglement dynamics in a cavity QED system. The system consists of an atom in a double-well potential and a cavity. The results show that the cavity decay affects significantly the tunneling and the entanglement dynamics. The tunneling behaves as a damping-oscillating function of time in this case, while the entanglement shared between the internal and external degree of freedom of the atom exhibits the so-called entanglement sudden death (ESD).     

Faithful Squashed Entanglement

Squashed entanglement is a measure for the entanglement of bipartite quantum states. In this paper we present a lower bound for squashed entanglement in terms of a distance to the set of separable states. This implies that squashed entanglement is faithful, that is, it is strictly positive if and only if the state is entangled.     

一维倾斜场伊辛模型中的纠缠特性

在一维倾斜场伊辛模型中, 利用并发度和Q测量函数分别对系统的两体纠缠和整体纠缠进行度量, 通过讨论系统中量子纠缠的动力学特性, 能够体现出系统的可积和不可积行为. 由系统基态的纠缠特性可以发现只要倾角不为零时, 系统的Q测量函数会随着磁场的增大而减少, 而用并发度刻画的系统的相变特性, 随着磁场倾角的增大发生了变化. 考虑系统的动力学行为发现, 在一维倾斜场伊辛模型中, 不可积性会抑制两体纠缠, 却促进系统整体纠缠生成. 关键词： 伊辛模型 不可积性 两体纠缠 整体纠缠     

Remote entanglement between a single atom and a Bose-Einstein condensate

Entanglement between stationary systems at remote locations is a key resource for quantum networks. We report on the experimental generation of remote entanglement between a single atom inside an optical cavity and a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). To produce this, a single photon is created in the atom-cavity system, thereby generating atom-photon entanglement. The photon is transported to the BEC and converted into a collective excitation in the BEC, thus establishing matter-matter entanglement. After a variable delay, this entanglement is converted into photon-photon entanglement. The matter-matter entanglement lifetime of 100 μs exceeds the photon duration by 2 orders of magnitude. The total fidelity of all concatenated operations is 95%. This hybrid system opens up promising perspectives in the field of quantum information.     

Probing multipartite entanglement in spin chain via structure factors

Multi-qubit entanglement could act as a useful resource for many quantum information communication and processing tasks like quantum networking processes. Genuine non-trivial multi-qubit entanglement could delineates quantum physics from classical physics. Detection of multipartite entanglement however is a theoretical and experimental challenge. A useful tool for this purpose are entanglement witnesses. Recently, we provide an analytical construction of multi-qubit entanglement witnesses using static structure factors (SSF) and study the robustness of the witnesses with respect to noise. In this article, we consider the effectiveness of the entanglement witness based on SSF for probing spin chain.     

基于四波混频过程和线性分束器产生四组份纠缠

多组份纠缠是量子信息处理的重要资源,它的产生通常涉及到许多复杂的线性和非线性过程.本文从理论上提出了一种利用两个独立的四波混频过程和线性分束器产生真正的四组份纠缠的方案,其中,线性分束器的作用是将两个独立的四波混频过程联系起来.首先应用部分转置正定判据研究了强度增益对四组份纠缠的影响,结果表明,在整个增益区域内都存在真正的四组份纠缠,并且随着强度增益的增加,纠缠也在增强.然后研究了线性分束器的透射率对四组份纠缠的影响,发现只要线性分束器的透射率不为0或1,该系统也可以产生真正的四组份纠缠.最后,通过研究该系统可能存在的三组份纠缠和两组份纠缠来揭示该系统的纠缠结构.本文理论结果为实验上利用原子系综四波混频过程产生真正的四组份纠缠提供了可靠的方案.     

A Reversible Theory of Entanglement and its Relation to the Second Law

We consider the manipulation of multipartite entangled states in the limit of many copies under quantum operations that asymptotically cannot generate entanglement. In stark contrast to the manipulation of entanglement under local operations and classical communication, the entanglement shared by two or more parties can be reversibly interconverted in this setting. The unique entanglement measure is identified as the regularized relative entropy of entanglement, which is shown to be equal to a regularized and smoothed version of the logarithmic robustness of entanglement. Here we give a rigorous proof of this result, which is fundamentally based on a certain recent extension of quantum Stein’s Lemma, giving the best measurement strategy for discriminating several copies of an entangled state from an arbitrary sequence of non-entangled states, with an optimal distinguishability rate equal to the regularized relative entropy of entanglement. We moreover analyse the connection of our approach to axiomatic formulations of the second law of thermodynamics.