Quantum Switchboard with Coupled-Cavity Array

The ability to control the flow of quantum information is deterministically useful for scaling up quantum computation. In this paper, we demonstrate a controllable quantum switchboard which directs the teleportation protocol to one of two targets, fully dependent on the sender’s choice. Importantly, the quantum switchboard also acts as a optimal quantum cloning machine, which allows the receivers to recover the unknown quantum state with a maximal fidelity of 56. This protects the system from the complete loss of quantum information in the event that the teleportation protocol fails. We also provide an experimentally feasible physical implementation of the proposal using a coupled-cavity array. The proposed switchboard can be utilized for the efficient routing of quantum information in a large quantum network.     

Complementarity between micro-micro and micro-macro entanglement in a Bose–Einstein condensate with two Rydberg impurities

We theoretically study complementarity between micro-micro and micro-macro entanglement in a Bose–Einstein condensate with two Rydberg impurities. We investigate quantum dynamics of micro-micro and micro-macro entanglement in the micro-macro system. It is found that strong micro-macro entanglement between Rydberg impurities and the BEC can be generated by the use of initial micro-micro entanglement between two Rydberg impurities, which acts as the seed entanglement to create micro-macro entanglement. We demonstrate a curious complementarity relation between micro-micro and micro-macro entanglement, and find that the complementarity property can be sustained to some extent even though in the presence of the BEC decoherence.     

Quantum Thermalization and Vanishing Thermal Entanglement in the Open Jaynes–Cummings Model

The quantum thermalization of the Jaynes–Cummings (JC) model in both equilibrium and non-equilibrium open-system cases is studied, in which the two subsystems, a two-level system and a single-mode bosonic field, are in contact with either two individual heat baths or a common heat bath. It is found that in the individual heat-bath case, the JC model can only be thermalized when either the two heat baths have the same temperature or the coupling of the JC system to one of the two baths is turned off. In the common heat-bath case, the JC system can be thermalized irrespective of the bath temperature and the system–bath coupling strengths. The thermal entanglement in this system is also studied. A counterintuitive phenomenon of vanishing thermal entanglement in the JC system is found and proved.     

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.     

Evolution of Classical and Quantum States in the Groupoid Picture of Quantum Mechanics

The evolution of states of the composition of classical and quantum systems in the groupoid formalism for physical theories introduced recently is discussed. It is shown that the notion of a classical system, in the sense of Birkhoff and von Neumann, is equivalent, in the case of systems with a countable number of outputs, to a totally disconnected groupoid with Abelian von Neumann algebra. The impossibility of evolving a separable state of a composite system made up of a classical and a quantum one into an entangled state by means of a unitary evolution is proven in accordance with Raggio’s theorem, which is extended to include a new family of separable states corresponding to the composition of a system with a totally disconnected space of outcomes and a quantum one.     

Advantage of Quantum Theory over Nonclassical Models of Communication

Quantum correlations provide dramatic advantage over the corresponding classical resources in several communication tasks. However, a broad class of probabilistic theories exists that attributes greater success than quantum theory in many of these tasks by allowing supra-quantum correlations in “space-like” and/or “time-like” paradigms. In this letter, a communication task involving three spatially separated parties is proposed where one party (verifier) aims to verify whether the bit strings possessed by the other two parties (terminals) are equal or not. This task is called authentication with limited communication, the restrictions on communication being: i) the terminals cannot communicate with each other, but (ii) each of them can communicate with the verifier through single use of channels with limited capacity. Manifestly, classical resources are not sufficient for perfect success of this task. Moreover, it is also not possible to perform this task with certainty in several nonclassical theories although they might possess stronger “space-like” and/or “time-like” correlations. Surprisingly, quantum resources can achieve the perfect winning strategy. The proposed task thus stands apart from all previously known communication tasks as it exhibits quantum advantage over other nonclassical strategies.     

Strong chaos of fast scrambling yields order: Emergence of decoupled quantum information capsules

The information loss problem in black hole evaporation is one of fundamental issues. Its resolution requires more profound understanding of information storage mechanism in quantum systems. In this Letter, we argue that when multiple unknown parameters are stored in large entangled qudits, strong chaos generated by fast scrambling in high temperature limit yields an ordered information storage structure with decoupled quantum information capsules (QICs). A rotational isometry emerges in the quantum Fisher information metric. The isometry is expected to be observed in future experiments on cold atoms in a pure entangled state. We provide a QIC speculation of black hole evaporation.     

环化顺1，4－聚丁二烯浓溶液的流动行为

大多数线型高聚物浓溶液的流动行为呈现非牛顿性，线型顺１，４－聚丁二烯（ＬＢＲ）亦然，而环化顺１，４－聚丁烯（ＣＢＲ）的浓溶液在浓度达１７．８％时仍表现为牛顿流体。ＣＢＲ溶液的临界缠结浓度明显地高于ＬＢＲ，ＣＢＲ分子链间的缠结效应比ＬＢＲ弱得多，这是ＣＢＲ的分子链结构特征所致。     

EQUILIBRIUM SWELLING AND MUTUAL ENTANGLEMENTS IN POLY(VINYL ACETATE)/POLY(METHYL ACRYLATE) IPNS

Based on Thiele-Cohen model, a swelling equation was derived by introducing the interaction parameters of a three-component system of polymer Ⅰ-polymer Ⅱ-solvent, which is a reasonable representation of the swelling behavior of general homogeneous IPNs. The degrees of equilibrium swelling of polyvinyl acetate/polymethyl actylate (PVAc/PMA) IPNs were compared between the theoretical and experimental values. The obvious effects of mutual entanglements were observed.     

物理老化无规聚苯乙烯屈服机理的研究

利用机械拉伸、示差扫描量热(DSC)以及溶剂溶胀等方法研究了物理老化后的无规聚苯乙烯(α-PS)的应力屈服行为,并从凝聚缠结的观点对实验结果进行了解释.实验结果表明,经物理老化后的α-PS在拉伸过程中出现应力屈服峰实质上是逐步打开凝聚缠结的过程.凝聚缠结是聚合物非晶相在物理老化过程中相邻的两三条链的局部链段由于范德华吸引力的作用形成的一种有序结构,其作用能很弱,升温至T_g附近,机械拉伸至屈服点以及溶胀剂都可将其完全破坏.