Entanglement and Classical Correlations in the Quantum Frame

The frame of classical probability theory can be generalized by enlarging the usual family of random variables in order to encompass nondeterministic ones. This leads to a frame in which two kinds of correlations emerge: the classical correlation that is coded in the mixed state of the physical system and a new correlation, to be called probabilistic entanglement, which may occur also at pure states. We examine to what extent this characterization of correlations can be applied to quantum mechanics. Explicit calculations on simple examples outline that a same quantum state can show only classical correlations or only entanglement depending on its statistical content; situations may also arise in which the two kinds of correlations compensate each other.     

热库诱导的两比特量子纠缠与量子关联

对比研究了处于热库中的两量子比特的量子纠缠和量子关联随时间的演化。数值模拟的结果表明,尽管热库几乎总能诱导两量子比特的量子纠缠与量子关联,但二者的动力学演化并不完全相同。在与热库的相互作用中,两比特初始形成量子纠缠,随后纠缠逐渐消失,两比特形成纠缠以外的量子关联并得到维持。由此看出,相比于量子纠缠,量子关联对消相干的影响表现得更为稳健。     

Correlations in Werner States

Werner states are paradigmatic examples of quantum states and play an innovative role in quantum information theory. In investigating the correlating capability of Werner states, we find the curious phenomenon that quantum correlations, as quantified by the entanglement of formation, may exceed the total correlations, as measured by the quantum mutual information. Consequently, though the entanglement of formation is so widely used in quantifying entanglement, it cannot be interpreted as a consistent measure of quantum correlations per se if we accept the folklore that total correlations are measured （or rather upper bounded） by the quantum mutual information.     

Spatial Entanglement of Fermions in One-Dimensional Quantum Dots

The time-dependent quantum Monte Carlo method for fermions is introduced and applied in the calculation of the entanglement of electrons in one-dimensional quantum dots with several spin-polarized and spin-compensated electron configurations. The rich statistics of wave functions provided by this method allow one to build reduced density matrices for each electron, and to quantify the spatial entanglement using measures such as quantum entropy by treating the electrons as identical or distinguishable particles. Our results indicate that the spatial entanglement in parallel-spin configurations is rather small, and is determined mostly by the spatial quantum nonlocality introduced by the ground state. By contrast, in the spin-compensated case, the outermost opposite-spin electrons interact like bosons, which prevails their entanglement, while the inner-shell electrons remain largely at their Hartree–Fock geometry. Our findings are in close correspondence with the numerically exact results, wherever such comparison is possible.     

Weak Quantum Theory: Complementarity and Entanglement in Physics and Beyond

The concepts of complementarity and entanglement are considered with respect to their significance in and beyond physics. A formally generalized, weak version of quantum theory, more general than ordinary quantum theory of physical systems, is outlined and tentatively applied to two examples.     

Implementing Entanglement Swapping and Generating Multiphoton Entanglement in Cavity QED

Based on the input-output relation of a one-sided cavity, we propose an experimental scheme to implement entanglement swapping with photons. In the ideal case, the successful probability of the scheme approaches unity. In addition, the protocol can be extended to establish multiphoton entanglement among distant users in a communication network.     

The Quantum World is not Built up from Correlations

It is known that the global state of a composite quantum system can be completely determined by specifying correlations between measurements performed on subsystems only. Despite the fact that the quantum correlations thus suffice to reconstruct the quantum state, we show, using a Bell inequality argument, that they cannot be regarded as objective local properties of the composite system in question. It is well known since the work of Bell, that one cannot have locally preexistent values for all physical quantities, whether they are deterministic or stochastic. The Bell inequality argument we present here shows this is also impossible for correlations among subsystems of an individual isolated composite system. Neither of them can be used to build up a world consisting of some local realistic structure. As a corrolary to the result we argue that entanglement cannot be considered ontologically robust. The Bell inequality argument has an important advantage over others because it does not need perfect correlations but only statistical correlations. It can therefore easily be tested in currently feasible experiments using four particle entanglement.     

Some Comments on Entanglement and Local Thermofield Theory

We combine recent results of Clifton and Halvorson [1] with structural results of the author [2–5] concerning the local observables in thermofield theory. A number of interesting consequences are discussed.     

Nonlocality and Entanglement

By constructing a series of mixture, which is inseparable but satisfies the Mermin-Klyshko inequality, for the N-qubit system, we prove that ＂violation of the Mermin-Klyshko inequality＂ is not equivalent to ＂the state is inseparable＂.     

Entanglement, Joint Measurement, and State Reduction

Entanglement is perhaps the most important new feature of the quantum world. It is expressed in quantum theory by the joint measurement formula. We prove the formula for projection valued observables from a plausible assumption, which for spacelike separated measurements is a consequence of causality. State reduction is simply a way to express the joint measurement formula after one measurement has been made, and its result known.     

A Generalization of Entanglement to Convex Operational Theories: Entanglement Relative to a Subspace of Observables

We define what it means for a state in a convex cone of states on a space of observables to be generalized-entangled relative to a subspace of the observables, in a general ordered linear spaces framework for operational theories. This extends the notion of ordinary entanglement in quantum information theory to a much more general framework. Some important special cases are described, in which the distinguished observables are subspaces of the observables of a quantum system, leading to results like the identification of generalized unentangled states with Lie-group-theoretic coherent states when the special observables form an irreducibly represented Lie algebra. Some open problems, including that of generalizing the semigroup of local operations with classical communication to the convex cones case, are discussed. PACS: 03.65.Ud.     

Entropy Correlations and Entanglement of a Superconducting Charge Qubitin a Resonant Cavity in the Presence of Noise

We study the dynamics of the entropy correlations and entanglement in a system of interaction of a superconducting charge qubit with a single-mode resonant cavity subject to noise considered as two-state random phase telegraph noise. We show that although the noise has an apparent suppressing effect on the evolution of the entropies of the qubit and the field and also on the entanglement in the system, the entropy exchange between the qubit and the
field is independent of it during the time evolution of the system.     

Entanglement Swapping in the Presence of White and Color Noise

The influence of white and color noise on the outcome of the entanglement swapping process is investigated in a four-qubit system. Critical degree of noise in initial state, that could destroy entanglement in a result state is presented. The entanglement characteristics, such as concurrence, tangle, etc. are compared. Results could be helpful for experiments regarding entanglement swapping as conditions for initial quantum entangled states, to obtain entangled result state.     

A Genuine Multipartite Entanglement Measure Generated by the Parametrized Entanglement Measure

A genuine multipartite entanglement measure based on the geometric method is investigated in this paper. This measure has desirable properties for quantifying the genuine multipartite entanglement. A lower bound of the genuine multipartite entanglement measure derived with the fidelity-based method is then presented. The advantages of the measure proposed here with other measures are also presented. At last, examples are presented to show that the genuine entanglement measure has distinct entanglement ordering from other measures.     

利用纠缠密度研究光子禁带系统的纠缠演化特性

研究了一个二能级原子在光子禁带模型中的原子与热库间及热库模式间的纠缠动力学行为.利用全局纠缠的方法,引出与热库模式相关的纠缠密度.研究发现,当禁带是完美带隙时,会出现稳态原子布居数俘获现象,从而抑制原子的自发辐射效应,防止了信息传输过程中信息的流失.原子与热库模式之间的纠缠密度以及热库模式与模式之间的纠缠密度会随着原子与热库之间耦合强度的增加而增大.当取长时极限时,原子与热库模式之间的纠缠减为零.热库模式与模式之间在强耦合情况下,由于拉比分裂的作用,在两个对称模式间会形成较强的纠缠;在弱耦合情况下,只能在中心频率处形成纠缠.     

Entanglement from the Vacuum

We explore the entanglement of the vacuum of a relativistic field by letting a pair of causally disconnected probes interact with the field. We find that, even when the probes are initially non-entangled, they can wind up to a final entangled state. This shows that entanglement persists between disconnected regions in the vacuum. However the probe entanglement, unlike correlations, vanishes once the regions become sufficiently separated. The relation between entropy, correlations and entanglement is discussed.     

双光子Jaynes-Cummings模型中的纠缠演化和热纠缠态现象

文中利用共生纠缠度研究了双光子Jaynes-Cummings模型中原子与腔纠缠的时间演化和有限温度下系统热纠缠态.结果表明,腔场中原子与腔展现出周期性的纠缠演化过程,演化周期随原子与腔耦合强度的增大而减小;在有限温度下,系统的共生纠缠度随温度的升高而降低,当趋近临界温度时,系统纠缠现象消失,这一临界温度值与原子-腔耦合强度成正比.对于典型的实验数据,临界温度大约在～10-5 K数量级.     

Bipartite and Tripartite Entanglement in a Three-Qubit Heisenberg Model

The bipartite and tripartite entanglement in a three-qubit Heisenberg XY model with a nonuniform magnetic field is studied. There are two or four peaks in the concurrence of the bipartite entanglement when the amplitudes of the magnetic fields are. differently distributed between the three qubits. It is very interesting to note that there is no tangle of tripartite entanglement between the three qubits when the amplitudes of the magnetic fieMs are varied. However, the variation of the magnetic field direction can induce the tangle. The tangle is periodic about the angle between the magnetic field and the z axis of the spin.     

Entanglement Fidelity as a Measure of Preservation of Entanglement in Local Noisy Process

A new formula of entanglement fidelity has been introduced, which can serve as a measure of the preservation of entanglement between two initially entangled subsystems exposed to local noisy environments. For a simple model we derive analytic expressions of concurrence and entanglement fidelity and draw the relationship between them. We find that such entanglement fidelity exhibits the behavior similar to that of the concurrence in quantum evolutions.