量子密码实验新进展——13km自由空间纠缠光子分发:朝向基于人造卫星的全球化量子通信

实验实现了纠缠光子对通过地面大气13km的自由空间分发.实验表明,纠缠光子在通过超过大气层等效厚度的距离之后,纠缠特性依然能够很好保持.文章作者观测了类空间隔Bell-CHSH不等式的破坏,其S值达到2.45±0.09.在这个基础上,我们利用分发的纠缠光子对演示了BB84-Ekert91量子密码协议.这个实验第一次验证了用纠缠光子对进行地面和卫星量子通信的可行性,为未来的基于人造卫星全球化量子通信打下坚实的基础.文章将首先回顾量子密码实验方面的最新进展,然后再详细介绍作者的实验.     

双光子纠缠实验教学系统的搭建与应用

双光子纠缠实验教学系统主要涉及双光子纠缠态的制备、测量和分析,可以直观展示量子纠缠概念,排除局域隐变量假设.介绍了双光子纠缠系统的工作原理、纠缠态的制备和测量方法,搭建了双光子纠缠实验教学系统.该系统利用自发参量下转换效应制备出双光子偏振纠缠态并进行测量,性能稳定可靠.实验包含符合测量和复杂光路设计、调节等内容,有助于...     

Do the Experimental Violations of Bell Inequalities Require a Non-Local Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics？

Since the data show that Bell inequalities are violated experimentally, we must conclude that any hidden variable theory （which correctly predicts experimental data ） will be non-local. But, to conclude that the experimental violations of Bell inequalities show quantum mechanics to be non-local is unjustified. Specifically, the key assumptions required to obtain a Bell inequality are （ 1 ） locality and （2） the assignment of meaningful （ non- negative） probabilities to seemingly physical correlations （Bell expresses these correlations via ＂ hidden variables＂ ）. Since the Bell inequality is violated by experiment, at least one of these assumptions is wrong. The widespread conclusion that locality must be relinquished is valid only if we retain the previously mentioned correlations （ ＂hidden variables＂ ）. We will demonstrate that the latter are not physical observables - they are not elements of physical reality.     

Bell态原子与双模纠缠相干光场双光子相互作用系统的量子纠缠

运用全量子理论和数值计算的方法,借助于原子的量子约化熵研究了初始处于Bell态|β00>和| β10>的两原子与双模纠缠相干光场双光子相互作用系统中两原子与双模光场之间纠缠的演化特性.分析了光场强度、光场纠缠度及原子间相互作用强度对原子熵演化特性的影响.结果表明:随着双模光场的平均光子数的增大,原子熵的时间演化曲线逐渐变为规则振荡;增大原子间的相互作用强度,原子熵的振荡频率和振幅都减小;改变双模光场的纠缠度,原子熵的振荡频率和振幅都不发生改变.     

双模纠缠相干光与Bell态原子系统的光子统计

运用全量子理论并结合数值计算方法,研究了处于Bell态的两个全同二能级纠缠原子与双模纠缠相干光场相互作用系统的光子统计性质.分析了双原子体系的初态、光场的平均光子数、双模纠缠相干光场的纠缠程度以及双原子体系的原子间耦合强度对双模光场的光子统计性质的影响.结果表明：双原子体系的初态为｜β00〉、｜β10〉时,光场在其演化过程中不出现光子的反聚束效应;而当原子初态为｜β01〉或｜β11〉时,在一定的条件下可出现光子的反聚束效应.并且在光场的演化过程中,光子的反聚束效应出现的次数、时间和深度极其敏感地依赖于初始光场的平均光子数,而受到双模纠缠光场的纠缠程度以及双原子间偶极作用强度的影响很微弱.     

Inseparable Criterion and Bell Inequality

In this letter, we shall show how to construct constrained Bell-type inequality for a general two-party system, and violating this inequality is equivalent to being inseparable. For 2 × 2 system, the maximum violation is 3, while for 3 × 3 system, the largest violation is 11/3.     

高能物理中的Bell不等式

评述了在高能物理中检验量子力学的完备性, 特别是检验Bell不等式的研究工作进展情况, 简略地介绍了Einstain, Podolsky和Rosen (EPR)佯谬及其相应的光子实验得到的结果. 概括地阐述了在高能物理中早期利用粒子衰变中的自旋关联以及后来用中性介子的混合形成的准自旋纠缠态检验Bell不等式的各种尝试, 给出了K⁰和B⁰系统的相关实验结果. 介绍了一种可在φ工厂中实施实验检验的, 基于非最大纠缠态的新的方案. 最后还讨论了把这一实验方案推广到τ-粲工厂的可能性.     

Bell态原子与双模纠缠相干光场相互作用的纠缠特性

运用Negativity熵研究了Bell态原子与双模纠缠相干光场相互作用系统中两个全同二能级原子之间的纠缠演化特性.分析了光场强度、光场纠缠度及原子间相互作用强度对纠缠的影响.结果表明:原子处于|β11〉时,两原子始终处于最大纠缠态;原子处于|β00〉时,初始纠缠的两原子始终较长时间处于退纠缠状态;原子处在|β10〉时,增大双模光场的平均光子数可以明显增大两原子之间的纠缠度并保持较大的纠缠状态;原子初态处在|β01〉时,原子间的相互作用强度对双原子间纠缠度有较显著的非线性调制作用.     

Experimental two-photon,three-dimensional entanglement for quantum communication

Orbital angular momentum entangled photons emitted by a down-conversion source are in higher dimensional entangled states. Here we report the experimental confirmation by demonstrating a violation of a generalized Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt-type Bell inequality in three dimensions by more than 18 standard deviations. Higher dimensional entangled states allow the realization of new types of quantum communication protocols. They also provide a more secure quantum cryptography scheme. Therefore our experimental results are likely to have applications in future quantum communication technology.     

Experimental verification of a new Bell-type inequality

Arpan Das et al. proposed a set of new Bell inequalities (Das et al., 2017 [16]) for a three-qubit system and claimed that each inequality within this set is violated by all generalized Greenberger–Horne–Zeilinger (GGHZ) states. We investigate experimentally the new inequalities in the three-photon GGHZ class states. Since the inequalities are symmetric under the identical particles system, we chose one Bell-type inequality from the set arbitrarily. The experimental data well verified the theoretical prediction. Moreover, the experimental results show that the amount of violation of the new Bell inequality against locality realism increases monotonically following the increase of the tangle of the GGHZ state. The most profound physical essence revealed by the results is that the nonlocality of GGHZ state correlate with three tangles directly.     

Experimental Bell inequality violation with an atom and a photon

We report the measurement of a Bell inequality violation with a single atom and a single photon prepared in a probabilistic entangled state. This is the first demonstration of such a violation with particles of different species. The entanglement characterization of this hybrid system may also be useful in quantum information applications.     

Role of entanglement in two-photon imaging

The use of entangled photons in an imaging system can exhibit effects that cannot be mimicked by any other two-photon source, whatever the strength of the correlations between the two photons. We consider a two-photon imaging system in which one photon is used to probe a remote (transmissive or scattering) object, while the other serves as a reference. We discuss the role of entanglement versus correlation in such a setting, and demonstrate that entanglement is a prerequisite for achieving distributed quantum imaging.     

Distributed entanglement in the two-photon two-mode non-linear process

In this paper we consider a quantum optics model where two-mode quantum light cavity with Kerr-like medium is coupled to an atom via two-photon process. The dynamical evolution of the system is studied in terms of entanglement measured by quantum relative entropy. The entanglements for the different bipartite partitions of the system, i.e., atom-two modes, mode-mode, mode-(atom+mode), are calculated explicitly and interesting trade-off relations between the different kinds of entanglement can be observed in different cases. The results show the entanglement between mode-mode is generally out of phase with that between atom and two modes, even though the two modes do not interact directly, and the Kerr-like medium prevents the atom and two modes from entangling.     

Robustness of entanglement for Bell decomposable states

We propose a simple geometrical approach for finding robustness of entanglement for Bell decomposable states of two-qubit quantum systems. It is shown that for these states robustness is equal to the concurrence. We also present an analytical expression for two separable states that wipe out all entanglement of these states. Random robustness of these states is also obtained. We also obtain robustness of a class of states obtained from Bell decomposable states via some special local operations and classical communications (LOCC).Received: 28 October 2002, Published online: 5 August 2003PACS: 03.65.Ud Entanglement and quantum nonlocality (e.g. EPR paradox, Bell's inequalities, GHZ states, etc.)     

Testing the structure of multipartite entanglement with Bell inequalities

We show that the rich structure of multipartite entanglement can be tested following a device-independent approach. Specifically we present Bell inequalities for distinguishing between different types of multipartite entanglement, without placing any assumptions on the measurement devices used in the protocol, in contrast with usual entanglement witnesses. We first address the case of three qubits and present Bell inequalities that can be violated by W states but not by Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger states, and vice versa. Next, we devise 'subcorrelation Bell inequalities' for any number of parties, which can provably not be violated by a broad class of multipartite entangled states (generalizations of Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger states), but for which violations can be obtained for W states. Our results give insight into the nonlocality of W states. The simplicity and robustness of our tests make them appealing for experiments.     

Experimental detection of multipartite entanglement using witness operators

We present the experimental detection of genuine multipartite entanglement using entanglement witness operators. To this aim, we introduce a canonical way of constructing and decomposing witness operators so that they can be directly implemented with present technology. We apply this method to three- and four-qubit entangled states of polarized photons, giving experimental evidence that the considered states contain true multipartite entanglement.     

非简并双光子Jaynes-Cummings模型中贝尔非定域性的演化

基于赝自旋算符的关联所对应的贝尔算符期待值,研究了各种双模非经典态(纠缠相干态、对相干态以及双模压缩真空态)在非简并双光子Jaynes-Cummings模型中贝尔非定域性的动力学特性.结果表明:对于纠缠相干态,贝尔非定域性的演化与双模场平均光子数的大小息息相关;对于对相干态和双模压缩真空态,贝尔非定域性会在有限的时间内完全消失,之后又基本上复原到初始值,呈现出周期性振荡现象.     

Experimental simulation of two-particle quantum entanglement using classical fields

We experimentally demonstrate simulation of two entangled quantum bits using classical fields of two frequencies and two polarizations. Multiplication of optical heterodyne beat signals from two spatially separated regions simulates coincidence detection of two particles. The product signal so obtained contains several frequency components, one of which can be selected by bandpass frequency filtering. The bandpassed signal contains two indistinguishable, interfering contributions, permitting simulation of four polarization-entangled Bell-like states. These classical field methods may be useful in small scale simulations of quantum logic operations that require multiparticle entanglement without collapse.