On the phase-space analysis of photon mediated quantum state transfer in nanophotonic waveguidance

A cavity quantum electrodynamics (QED) based approach for transferring quantum state between quantum nodes has been proposed, wherein a rubidium (⁸⁷Rb) atom trapped inside a two-mode optical cavity forms the quantum node and photons serve as the information carrier between two such nodes. Information is encoded into polarized photon states generated through the application of a system of lasers. The focus is made on the phase-space analysis of the approach, wherein two subspaces of the hyperfine energy levels with magnetic sub-levels of rubidium (⁸⁷Rb) atom represent the logic states ‘0’ and ‘1’. The system of lasers initiates a cavity assisted Raman process which, in turn, generates a right- or left-circularly polarized photon depending on the logic state of the transmit node. Once the photon is received (at the receive node), the logic state of the transmit node is restored into the receive node through a cavity QED process.     

On the quantum link for transport of logic states

A novel approach for representing logic states in the quantum nodes and transferring the states from one node to another is proposed. Both transmit and receive nodes consist of a rubidium atom (⁸⁷Rb) placed at the center of a two-mode cavity. Representation of logic states by two subspaces of the space of ⁸⁷Rb atom hyperfine states eliminates the need for the transmitting node to change logic state during logic transfer through Raman process. The atom is excited by simultaneous application of two laser beams - one for each subspace. Based on the logic state, the atom emits a photon of appropriate frequency and polarization through Raman process within the corresponding subspace. The emitted photon leaks out of the cavity, reaches the receiving node, and initiates logic dependent transitions there. A simulation platform is developed through the system Hamiltonians for transmit and receive nodes followed by the formulation of the time evolution of the density matrices for the nodes. The efficacy of the simulation approach is emphasized.     

Helium transport along lattice channels in crystalline quartz

The problem of He atom movement through channels of the quartz crystalline lattice is investigated. Providing the diameters of the atom and of the channel are of similar size the atom interacts with neighbor constituents of the wall. The conservation of momentum law in local form applied to the ‘helium-constituent’ interaction allows reduction of the problem to a one-dimensional one, which is similar to the movement of a dislocation in the Frenkel-Kontorova (FK) model. Within the framework of this model the activation energy for ‘helium+neighbor constituents’ is expressed by the shear modulus for the channel-forming material and the He polarizability. A metastable helium atom in the triplet state (2 ³S₁) is able to penetrate through the channel. In contrast, helium atoms in the singlet states, both ground state (1 ¹S₀) and metastable (2 ¹S₀), cannot penetrate.     

双光子过程耦合腔系统中光场的量子特性

本文研究了双光子过程原子与耦合腔相互作用系统中腔场的压缩效应和反聚束效应.考虑系统总激发数等于2的情况,利用数值计算方法讨论了腔场间的耦合强度变化和原子与腔场间耦合强度变化对反聚束效应的影响.研究结果表明:腔场不呈现出压缩效应;腔场的反聚束效应与原子与腔场的耦合系数之间,以及与腔场间的耦合系数之间都存在着非线性关系,     

A novel method of developing all-optical frequency encoded memory unit exploiting nonlinear switching character of semiconductor optical amplifier

The very fast running optical memory and optical logic gates are the basic building blocks for any optical computing data processing system. Realization of a very fast memory-cell in the optical domain is very challenging. In the last two decades many methods of implementing all-optical flip-flops have been proposed. Most of these suffer from speed limitation because of low switching response of the active devices. In our present communication the authors propose a method of developing a frequency encoded memory unit based on the switching action of semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA). Nonlinear polarization rotation characters of SOA and ‘SOA based Mach-Zehnder Interferometer’ switch, i.e. ‘SOA-MZI’ switch, are exploited for the purpose of some switching action with least switching power (<−3 dB_m) and high switching contrast ratio (20 dB). Here two logic states (‘0’ state and ‘1’ state) of the memory is encoded by two different frequencies, which will remain unchanged throughout the data communication irrespective of loss of light energy due to reflection, refraction, attenuation, etc. Though the SOA based switch runs with the operational speed 100 Gb/s, still due to the presence of the other optical components in the memory unit, the overall speed of the proposed system will come down to 10 Gb/s.     

Entanglement generation in a two-mode single-atom laser

We present a method of generating two-mode single atom laser based on the nonresonant interaction of a three-level Λ type atom in a two-mode cavity with three strong classical driving fields. An analytical solution for this effective dynamics under the presence of the cavity losses is obtained, which allow us to analyze the entanglement properties and the photon statistics of the two cavity modes exactly. It is also shown that the possible generation of the two-mode entangled coherent states in the transient regime after the atomic measurement.     

Optical switching of electron transport in a waveguide-QED system

Electron switching in waveguides coupled to a photon cavity is found to be strongly influenced by the photon energy and polarization. Therefore, the charge dynamics in the system is investigated in two different regimes, for off-resonant and resonant photon fields. In the off-resonant photon field, the photon energy is smaller than the energy spacing between the first two lowest subbands of the waveguide system, the charge splits between the waveguides implementing a $\sqrt{\mathrm{NOT}}$-quantum logic gate action. In the resonant photon field, the charge is totally switched from one waveguide to the other due to the appearance of photon replica states of the first subband in the second subband region instigating a quantum-NOT transition. In addition, the importance of the photon polarization to control the charge motion in the waveguide system is demonstrated. The idea of charge switching in electronic circuits may serve to built quantum bits.     

Generation of quantum switch and nonlocal fields with an external field in a high quality dispersive cavity

We present a scheme to prepare an optical “quantum switch”, a superposition of “open” and “closed” states. The scheme is based on the interaction of an Λ-type three-level atom with a single-mode of quantized cavity field and an external classical driving field, in the regime where the atom and fields are highly detuned. We show how this interaction can be used to generate coherent states of the cavity field in contrast to the usual method used in microwave cavity QED of injecting a coherent state into a cavity. A combination of switches could be used to prepare a quantum superposition of coherent field states located simultaneously in two cavities. Compared with previous proposals, our scheme is simplified due to economizes the Ramsey zone and the time required for the state generation is short.     

Spin polarization of the injected carriers in C-doped BN nanotubes

We investigated BN nanotubes with two carbon substitutions for one boron atom and one nitrogen atom based on density functional theory (DFT) with local spin density approximation (LSDA). When the two carbon dopants are separated without C-C bond formation, we found that the injected carriers are spin polarized, although there is no net spin in the neutral systems. Here we call the material as ‘spin polarizer’ which can polarize the carriers passing through.     

Nanophotonic waveguidance in quantum networks - A simulation approach for quantum state transfer

A cavity-assisted Raman process can initialize the inter-conversion of stationary spin qubits and flying photon qubits in quantum channels. The qubit transmission essentially requires the implementation of special laser fields to excite atoms at the transmitting node of the quantum cavity. The flying qubit is ultimately absorbed at the receiving node of the channel to regenerate the original spin state of the nanodot. The present paper deals with the phenomena involved in such nanophotonic waveguidance by the process of rigorous simulation, and it is reported that the results obtained by implementing suitable transmission protocol reflect well the reliable transfer/entanglement of the quantum states of the nanodot qubit.     

Toward an ion–photon quantum interface in an optical cavity

We demonstrate several building blocks for an ion–photon interface based on a trapped ⁴⁰Ca⁺ ion in an optical cavity. We identify a favorable experimental configuration and measure system parameters, including relative motion of the trapped ion and the resonator mode. A complete spectrum of cavity-assisted Raman transitions between the 4²S_1/2 and 3²D_5/2 manifolds is obtained. On two of these transitions, we generate orthogonally polarized cavity photons, and we demonstrate coherent manipulation of the corresponding pair of atomic states. Possible implementations of atom-photon entanglement and state mapping within the ion-cavity system are discussed.     

Polarized soliton pulses generation using nonlinear micro ring resonators for multi- and long distance links

We propose a new concept of quantum soliton pulses generation using a soliton pulse in the micro ring resonators. Firstly, the chaotic soliton pulses are generated and circulated within the integrated micro ring resonators. Secondly, the specific second harmonic pulses are selected by using the appropriate ring parameters. The superposition of the second harmonic pulses within the micro ring devices introduces the randomly polarized photons within the micro ring device. The entangled photon visibility of the polarized photon is seen after passing the polarization control devices and projecting on the detectors. The optimum entangled photon visibility is obtained. The advantage of such a system is that the quantum repeater unit can be redundant for long distance quantum communication link, whereas the use of the system for multi-entangled photon sources and links is also available. The system degradation via the entangled photon states timing walk-off is also discussed.     

Λ型原子与单模光场的非共振作用制备四光子相干态

根据简并Λ型三能级原子与单模光场的改进型有效哈密顿量 ,通过矩阵形式法推导出原子光场系统的波函数 ,提出利用简并Λ型三能级原子与单模光场的远离共振相互作用制备四光子相干态的有效方案。并且证明按照同样的方法不能制备出四成分以上的相干叠加态 ,即当在腔中注入的第三个原子的速度与第二个原子的速度相等时 ,腔场将保持这种四光子相干叠加态不变     

Pulse Transmission and State Conversion in Two-mode Optomechanical Cavity Coupled with Atomic Medium

We investigate the quantum state conversion between cavity modes of distinctively different wavelengths for the two-mode optomechanical cavity coupled with the three-level lambda atom. In the frequency domain, we show that the coherence of atom medium leads to the two maximum transmissions. We also show that the injected atom can interrupt the traveling photon pulses which is transmitted between the different input and output channels. Thus, the addition of atom provides us a way to control the transmission between the quantum states of two cavity modes and the photon information storage.     

How to measure the decoherence of a micromaser field under well controlled conditions

We discuss a possible realization of a quantum register with controllable decoherence in terms of /0> and /1> photon number states of a micromaser field. It is shown how to create in the Jaynes-Cummings model a superposition state of /0> and /1> photon number states inside a closed micromaser cavity. The loss of phase coherence between these two states can subsequently be measured by a second probe atom monitoring the decoherence of the field. A technique is proposed for forming the superposition of number states /0> and /1> using the time structure of the Rabi oscillation. The proposed method avoids problems with stray fields at the cavity holes, which disturb the coherence of the atomic superposition, and offers a way to study how the coupling strength to the environment influences the decoherence rate, displaying the robustness of physical qubits and the fidelity of quantum computations.     

Effective Scheme for Generating Cluster States in Cavity QED

We propose a scheme to prepare many two-mode cavities into one-dimensional cluster states in the context of cavity QED. The left-circularly polarized state and right-circularly polarized state of the cavity are encoded as the logic zero and one of the qubits. In the scheme, the atomic spontaneous emission is suppressed, and the fidelity is unaffected by the cavity decay on the assumption that the detection efficiencies of all the photondetectors are 1.     

Preparation of two and four atom entangled states

A scheme for preparing two and four atom entangled states is presented. It is based on atom cavity field interactions. Firatly, the cavity is prepared in the superposition of the number states through the atom undergoing a two photon transition, the secondly, the two or four identical two level atoms, which are all initially in their ground states, are sent through the cavity sequentially and can make resonant single photon transition in the cavity. Then atomic entangled states are created and the cav     

Universal scheme for finite-probability perfect transfer of arbitrary multispin states through spin chains

In combination with the theories of open system and quantum recovering measurement, we propose a quantum state transfer scheme using spin chains by performing two sequential operations: a projective measurement on the spins of ‘environment’ followed by suitably designed quantum recovering measurements on the spins of interest. The scheme allows perfect transfer of arbitrary multispin states through multiple parallel spin chains with finite probability. Our scheme is universal in the sense that it is state-independent and applicable to any model possessing spin–spin interactions. We also present possible methods to implement the required measurements taking into account the current experimental technologies. As applications, we consider two typical models for which the probabilities of perfect state transfer are found to be reasonably high at optimally chosen moments during the time evolution.     

Quantum states of hydrogen (H, D, T) atoms on Cu(1 0 0) and (1 1 0) surfaces

We investigate the quantum mechanical behavior of adsorbed hydrogen (H, D, T) on Cu(1 0 0) and (1 1 0) surfaces. We construct potential energy surfaces (PESs) for the motion of the hydrogen H atom on Cu(1 0 0) and (1 1 0) surfaces within the framework of density functional theory. The potential energy takes a minimum value on the hollow site of Cu(1 0 0) and on the short bridge site of Cu(1 1 0). Moreover, we calculate the quantum states of hydrogen atom motion on these calculated PESs. The ground state wave function of the hydrogen atom motion is strongly localized around the hollow site on the Cu(1 0 0) surface. On the other hand, the ground state wave function of the hydrogen atom motion on Cu(1 1 0) is distributed from the short bridge site to two neighboring pseudo-threefold sites. We finally show isotope effects on the quantum states of the motion of hydrogen on both surfaces.