Entanglement of three-level trapped ions with phonon trap modes

The entanglement between a single electron in the electronic states of a trapped three-level ion and the ionic vibrational modes of the trap is studied for an initially unentangled state of an electron level and a coherent phonon state. The effects of time-independent and time-dependent couplings are discussed.     

Avoiding the decay of entanglement for coupling two-qubit system interacting with a non-Markov environment

The entanglement evolution of the coupled qubits interacting with a non-Markov environment is investigated in terms of concurrence.The results show that the entanglement of the quantum systems depends not only on the initial state of the system but also on the coupling between the qubit and the environment.For the initial state （|00 ± |11） /2^1/2,the coupled qubits will always been in the maximum entangled state under an asymmetric coupling.For the initial state （|01 ± |10） /2^1/2,in contrast,the entangling degree of the coupled qubits is always equal to unity and does not depend on the evolving time under the symmetric coupling.We find that the stronger the interaction between the qubits is,the better the struggle against the entanglement sudden death is.     

Engineering Two-Atom Thermal Entanglement via Two-Photon Process

We study that two atoms simultaneously interact with a single mode thermal field via different couplings and different spontaneous emission rates when two-photon process is involved. It is found that we indeed can employ the different couplings to produce the two-atom thermal entanglement in two-photon process. The different atomic spontaneous emission rates are also utilizable in generating thermal entanglement. We also investigate the effect of the cavity leakage. To the initial atomic state $| eg\rangle$, a slight leakage can relieve the restriction of interaction time so that we can obtain a strong and steady entanglement.     

耦合系数的线性变化对量子纠缠的调控

考虑原子－光场耦合系数随时间变化的双Jaynes－Cummings模型组成的系统,研究两原子初始处于最大纠缠态时,耦合系数的线性调制对原子纠缠的影响。结果表明：初始纠缠保持时间的长短与耦合系数的线性调制密切相关。无论是单光子过程还是双光子过程,较耦合系数为常数的情形而言,耦合系数线性调制下的初始纠缠消失的时间被大大延迟,延迟时间的长短与耦合系数线性调制的参数选择密切相关,并且在双光子过程中延迟的时间更长。     

Entanglement preservation of two coupled modes

A scheme to control the evolution of any initial state in subspace {|1〉⊗|0〉,|0〉⊗|1〉} is presented. The physical system considered is the one of two coupled modes sharing one excitation. The scheme is based on unitary interactions with an auxiliary subsystem, and it can be used to preserve the initial entanglement of the system. A proposal for implementation of the scheme in the context of microwave cavity is presented.     

耦合系数的线性变化对量子纠缠的调控

考虑原子-光场耦合系数随时间变化的双Jaynes-Cummings模型组成的系统,研究两原子初始处于最大纠缠态时,耦合系数的线性调制对原子纠缠的影响。结果表明：初始纠缠保持时间的长短与耦合系数的线性调制密切相关。无论是单光子过程还是双光子过程,较耦合系数为常数的情形而言,耦合系数线性调制下的初始纠缠消失的时间被大大延迟,延迟时间的长短与耦合系数线性调制的参数选择密切相关,并且在双光子过程中延迟的时间更长。     

逾渗分立时间量子行走的传输及纠缠特性

在一维分立时间量子行走中,通过静态和动态两种方式随机地断开连接边引入无序效应,研究了静态逾渗和动态逾渗对量子行走传输特性以及位置自由度和硬币自由之间纠缠的影响.随着演化时间的增加,静态逾渗会使得量子行走从弹道传输转变为安德森局域化,而动态逾渗则会使之转变为经典扩散.理想情况下,量子纠缠在较短的时间内就达到一个常数值E_0.静态逾渗量子行走的纠缠减小,并随着时间做无规振荡,而动态逾渗量子行走的纠缠则会随着时间光滑地增加,并在某一时间超过理想情况下的常数值,表现出动态逾渗增强量子纠缠的特性.     

非均匀磁场和杂质磁场对自旋1系统量子关联的影响

通过负值度和测量诱导的扰动, 研究了非均匀磁场和杂质磁场对自旋为1的Heisenberg系统量子关联的影响. 研究发现非均匀磁场的增加会降低纠缠, 但也可用来产生纠缠, 并且会提高临界非线性作用K_c的值, 测量诱导的扰动的临界磁场要高于负值度的临界磁场, 而且测量诱导的扰动不会随着非线性作用|K| 的减小而消失, 它能全面反映量子关联的存在. 研究还发现, 不同杂质磁场对测量诱导的扰动的影响彼此间无交叉. 杂质磁场下, 相互作用|J| 必须小于非线性作用|K| 才会有纠缠存在, 但是测量诱导的扰动却可以在相互作用|J| 大于非线性作用|K| 时依然存在, |J| 与|K| 相同时只是测量诱导的扰动的最小取值点. 此外, 系统粒子数目对量子关联也具有重要影响.     

Protecting Distribution Entanglement for Two-Qubit State Using Weak Measurement and Reversal

Protection of entanglement from disturbance of the environment is an essential task in quantum information processing. We investigate the effect of the weak measurement and reversal (WMR) on the protection of the entanglement for an arbitrarily entangled two-qubit pure state from these three typical quantum noisy channels, i.e., amplitude damping channel, phase damping channel and depolarizing quantum channel. Given the parameters of the Bell-like initial qubits’ state |ψ〉 = a|00〉 + d|11〉, it is found that the WMR operation indeed helps for protecting distributed entanglement from the above three noisy quantum channels. But for the Bell-like initial qubits’ state |?〉 = b|01〉 + c|10〉, the WMR operation only protects entanglement in the amplitude damping channel, not for the phase damping and depolarizing quantum channels. In addition, we discuss how the concurrence and the success probability behave with adjusting the weak or the reversal weak measurement strength.     

耗散腔场中两个∧型原子的纠缠特性

利用超算符方法求解幅值损耗腔中两个∧型三能级原子与相干光场相互作用系统的主方程,并利用量子条件熵研究了两个初始为|Ψa(0)＞和|Φa(0)＞纠缠态的原子与光场作用过程中原子的纠缠演化特性.讨论了不同初始原子纠缠度,不同耗散系数以及不同平均光子数对两原子纠缠度的影响.结果表明:①当原子初始处于|Ψa(0)＞类纠缠态时,其纠缠度随光场强度以及腔场衰减系数演化.当腔不存在耗散时,纠缠度呈周期性振荡;当腔存在耗散时,纠缠度呈衰减振荡并趋于稳定值;且光强越弱,其稳定值越大;衰减系数越大纠缠达到稳定值所需时间越短.②原子初始处于|Φa(0)＞类纠缠态时,其纠缠度只与原子初始纠缠度有关,不随其他因素变化.     

Effect of the Time-Dependent Atom-Field Couplings on Entanglement

A model containing two two-level atoms and a single-mode cavity is considered, and the effect of the time-dependent atom-field couplings on entanglement between the two atoms is studied. The results indicate that both for one-photon processes and for two-photon processes, the disappearance of the initial entanglement is delayed due to the linear modulation of the atom-field coupling coefficients as compared to the constant coupling model. The delayed time of the disappearance of the initial entanglement for the two-photon processes is much longer than that for the one-photon processes in the case of adiabatic variation.     

Population relaxation effects on entanglement dynamics of the two-qubit spin chains

By analytically solving the master equation, we examine entanglement dynamics of the two-qubit spin system coupled via the XY interaction and in the presence of population relaxation. We found that the entanglement dynamical behaviors are very sensitive to different initialized states. Particularly, for initial states ?=(|01〉〈01|+|10〉〈10|)/2 and ?=(|00〉〈00|+|11〉〈11|)/2, a combination of the XY coupling with the population relaxation can even be used to enhance the entanglement. Moreover, we show that among different initially separable states, ?=|01〉〈01| and ?=|10〉〈10| are more robust in generating pairwise entanglement.     

Effect of the Time-Dependent Atom-Field Couplings on Entanglement

A model containing two two-level atoms and a single-mode cavity is considered, and the effect of the time-dependent atom-field couplings on entanglement between the two atoms is studied. The results indicate that both for one-photon processes and for two-photon processes, the disappearance of the initial entanglement is delayed due to the linear modulation of the atom-field coupling coefficients as compared to the constant coupling model. The delayed time of the disappearance of the initial entanglement for the two-photon processes is much longer than that for the one-photon processes in the case of adiabatic variation.     

Effects of Anisotropy on Entanglement in a Two-Qubit Heisenberg XYZ Chain with Intrinsic Decoherence

Taking the intrinsic decoherence effect into account, the entanglement ofa two-qubit anisotropic Heisenberg XYZ chain in the presence of the Dzyaloshinski Moriya （DM） anisotropic antisymetric interaction is investigated in this paper. Concurrence, the measurement of entanglement, is calculated. Compared with the anisotropic in XY plane, the DM interaction is another kind of anisotropic antisymmetrie exchange interaction. It is shown that the intrinsic decoherence obviously suppresses the time evolution of the entanglement. The DM interaction only acts on the time evolution of the entanglement when the initial state is [ψ（0）〉 = cosα｜01〉 ＋ sinα｜10〉 and weakens the degree of entanglement. The anisotropic in XY plane merely impacts on the time evolution of the entanglement when the system ＆ initially in a state ｜ψ（0）〉 = cos α｜00〉 ＋ sin α｜11 〉. The sufficiently weak anisotropic in XY plane can effectively enhance the degree of entanglement.     

The Dynamics of Quantum Correlations Between Two Atoms in Two Coupled Cavities

The dynamics of the quantum correlation between two atoms in two single-mode cavities is studied. For the initial Bell state |Ψ ⁺〉, the quantum consonance is equal to the entanglement, and larger than quantum discord. For the initial Bell state |Φ ⁺〉, the quantum consonance is larger than entanglement, but not larger than quantum discord all the time. As the increase of the cavity-cavity coupling strength, the evolution period of quantum correlation becomes smaller. Consonance is not smooth at some points while cavities are coupled with each other.     

Entanglement of a two-qubit anisotropic Heisenberg XYZ chain in nonuniform magnetic fields with intrinsic decoherence

Taking the intrinsic decoherence effect into account, this paper investigates the entanglement of a two-qubit anisotropic Heisenberg XYZ model in the presence of nonuniform external magnetic fields by employing the concurrence as entanglement measure. It is found that both the intrinsic decoherence and the anisotropy of the system give a significant suppression to the entanglement. Moreover it finds that the initial state of the system plays an important role in the time evolution of the entanglement, which means that the entanglement of the system is independent of the nonuniformity and uniformity of the magnetic field when the system is in the initial state ｜ψ （0）） = ｜00） and [ψ′ （0）） = m ｜01） ＋ n ｜10）, respectively.     

Geometry in the Entanglement Dynamics of the Double Jaynes–Cummings Model

We report on the geometric character of the entanglement dynamics of two pairs of qubits evolving according to the double Jaynes–Cummings model. We show that the entanglement dynamics for the initial states | ψ ₀〉 = cos α | 10〉 + sin α | 01〉 and | ? ₀〉 = cos α | 11〉 + sin α | 00〉 cover three-dimensional surfaces in the diagram C _ij × C _ik × C _il , where C _mn stands for the concurrence between qubits m and n, varying 0 ≤ α ≤ π / 2. In the first case, projections of the surfaces on a diagram C _ij × C _kl are conics. In the second case, curves can be more complex. We relate those conics with a measurable quantity, the predictability. We also derive inequalities limiting the sum of the squares of the concurrence of every bipartition and show that sudden death of entanglement is intimately connected to the size of the average radius of a hypersphere.     

在有限温度下运用弱测量保护量子纠缠

根据单量子比特的映射, 提出一个在有限温度下运用弱测量保护两量子比特纠缠的方案. 在两个可通过局域幺正变化实现的等价的初始纠缠进入广义振幅阻尼信道前后, 对其分别进行弱测量, 并对四个弱测量的参数做全面的优化, 获取最大共生纠缠C_r 和弱测量参数m, n的解析表达式, 然后再进一步研究弱测量参数与信道参数的关系. 发现这种基于弱测量的纠缠保护方法在某些情况下可以有效地提高纠缠, 甚至可以避免纠缠的突然死亡. 当信道参数r一定时, 对不同的参数p,初始态|ψ>纠缠达到最大值时对应的弱测量参数m的取值一样, 共生纠缠关于p=0.5对称, 而初始态|φ>对应的参数m的取值不同; 在参数p一定、参数r不同、初始态|ψ>或|φ>的情况下, 当纠缠度取最大值时, 弱测量参数m的取值不变, 且随着r的增加, 纠缠度减少. 通过对信道参数的分析, 发现可以选择合适的信道参数和初始态来获得较大的纠缠.     

Coherent Preservation of Two-Qubit Quantum Entanglement in the Strong Coupling Region

The entanglement of two qubits is investigated in the range of their ultra-strongly coupling with a quantum oscillator. The two qubits are initially in four Bell states and they are under the control mechanism of the coherent state of the quantum oscillator. There are four parameters: the average number of the coherent state, the ultra-strong coupling strength, the ratio of two frequencies of qubit and oscillator, and the inter-interaction coupling of the two qubits in the mechanism, and they all are influential parameters on the entanglement of the two qubits. One Bell state |0>is easyily kept and is trivial case. The novel results show that there is one state |I₀> among the other three Bell states which the entanglement of the two qubits could be almost completely preserved. The possibility is made into reality by the appropriate choice of the four influential parameters. We give two different schemes to choose the respective parameters to maintain the entanglment of |I₀> almost undiminished. The results will be useful for the quantum information process.     

Decoherence Effect in An Anisotropic Two-Qubit Heisenberg XYZ Model with Inhomogeneous Magnetic Field

Taking the decoherence effect into account, the entanglement evolution of a two-qubit anisotropic Heisenberg XYZ chain in the presence of inhomogeneous magnetic field is investigated. The time evolution of concurrence is studied for the initial state cos θ｜01） ＋ sin θ｜10） at zero temperature. The influences of inhomogeneous magnetic field, anisotropic parameter and decoherence on entanglement dynamic are addressed in detail, and a concurrence formula of the steady state is found. It is shown that the entanglement sudden death （ESD） and entanglement sudden birth （ESB） appear with the decoherence effect, and the stable concurrence depends on the uniform magnetic field B, anisotropic parameter △ and environment coupling strength γ, which is independent of different initial states and nonuniform magnetic field b.