Generation of fully three-mode continuous-variable entanglement in a single-atom laser

Abstract

We proposed a scheme for generating fully three-mode continuous-variable (CV) entanglement between three nondegenerate cavity modes in a single-atom laser. In our scheme, the single-atom laser consists of a four-level atom inside a triply resonant cavity, and the atomic coherence is induced by two classical laser fields driving the corresponding atomic transitions. To demonstrate the generation of entanglement, we numerically simulated the dynamics of this system, and the numerical simulation shows that the single-atom laser considered here can be seen as a three-mode CV entanglement amplifier even in the presence of cavity losses. Moreover, we also show that the generation of entanglement doesn’t depend intensively on the initial condition of cavity field, and the fully three-mode CV entanglement can be realized no matter the three entangled (nondegenerate) modes are initially in the same state or different states based on our scheme.