Enhancement Of Entanglement Research Articles

Optical qudit-type entanglement creation at long distances by means of small cross-Kerr nonlinearities

Entanglement represents an important resource for quantum information processing, but its generation itself requires physical resources that are limited. We propose a scheme for generating a wide class of entangled qudit-type states of optical field modes at sites separated by noisy medium when only weak optical nonlinearities are available at both sites. The protocol is also based on exploiting a weak probe field, transmitted between the sites and used for generation of quantum correlations between two spatially separated field modes. The idea of probabilistic entanglement enhancement by measurement is discussed, and corresponding scheme for measuring the probe field state with linear optics and photodetectors not resolving photon numbers is proposed. It is shown that the protocol is applicable in the case when decoherence, limited efficiency and dark counts of photodetectors, and uncertainty of nonlinear coupling constants are present.

Entanglement Enhancement in an XY Spin Chain

We study evolution of entanglement in an XY-type spin channel and find that the entanglement can be enhanced by the spin channel. The parameter regions of the initial states for different numbers of sites are obtained. Furthermore, we consider a common spin environment coupling to the spin chains and find that the entanglement enhancement can also be implemented only for the chains with the odd numbers of sites.

Vacuum entanglement enhancement by a weak gravitational field

Separate regions in space are generally entangled, even in the vacuum state. It is known that this entanglement can be swapped to separated Unruh-DeWitt detectors, i.e., that the vacuum can serve as a source of entanglement. Here, we demonstrate that, in the presence of curvature, the amount of entanglement that Unruh-DeWitt detectors can extract from the vacuum can be increased.

Phase compensation enhancement of photon pair entanglement generated from biexciton decay in quantum dots

Exciton fine-structure splittings within quantum dots introduce phase differences between the two biexciton decay paths that greatly reduce the entanglement of photon pairs generated via biexciton recombination. We analyze this problem in the frequency domain and propose a practicable method to compensate the phase difference by inserting a spatial light modulator, which substantially improves the entanglement of the photon pairs without any loss.

Enhancement of Continuous Variable Entanglement in Four-Wave Mixing due to Atomic Memory Effects

We explore the effects of atomic memory on quantum correlations of two-mode light fields from four-wave mixing. A three-level atomic system in Λ configuration is considered, in which the atomic relaxation times are comparable to or longer than the cavity relaxation times and thus there exists the atomic memory. The quantum correlation spectrum in the output is calculated without the adiabatic elimination of atomic variables. It is shown that the continuous variable entanglement is enhanced over a wide range of the normalized detuning in the intermediate and bad cavity cases compared with the good cavity case. In some situations more significant enhancement occurs at sidebands.

Continuous variable entanglement enhancement and manipulation by a subthreshold Type II optical parametric amplifier

We experimentally demonstrate that the quantum entanglement between amplitude and phase quadratures of optical modes produced from a nondegenerate optical parametric amplifier (NOPA) can be enhanced and manipulated phase sensitively by means of another NOPA. When both NOPAs operate at deamplification, the entanglement degree is increased at the cavity resonance of the second NOPA. When the first NOPA operates at deamplification and the second one at amplification, the spectral features of the correlation variances are significantly changed. The experimental results are in good agreement with the theoretical expectation.

Impurity-assisted enhancement of entanglement in dissipative environments

We propose a scheme to enhance the entanglement of a dissipative system, and the enhancement is happened during certain intervals of the evolution time. Our method is obtained by introducing one impurity into a Heisenberg XY chain and then solving the Lindblad form of the master equation with different initial states. The dynamics of entanglement reveal that one can significantly enhance the entanglement. This result will be helpful for the generation and transportation of entanglement in real solid-state systems.

Qubit coherent control and entanglement with squeezed light fields

We study the use of squeezed light for qubit coherent control and compare it with the coherent state control field case. We calculate the entanglement between a short pulse of resonant squeezed light and a two-level atom in free space and the resulting operation error. We find that the squeezing phase, the phase of the light field and the atomic superposition phase, all determine whether atom-pulse mode entanglement and the gate error are enhanced or suppressed. However, when averaged over all possible qubit initial states, the gate error would not decrease by a practicably useful amount and would in fact increase in most cases. We discuss the possibility of measuring the increased gate error as a signature of the enhancement of entanglement by squeezing.

Entanglement enhancement for two spins assisted by two phase kicks

We study the entanglement dynamics in a two-spin system governed by a bilinear Hamiltonian and assisted by phase kicks. It is found that the application of instant kicks to both spins at some specific moments leads to enhancement of entanglement. This procedure also improves the transient character of entanglement leading, for large spins, to a formation of a plateau for the I-concurrence. We have numerically investigated the spin-spin dynamics for several values of spins and observed a substantial enhancement of entanglement in comparison to the evolution without kicks.

Environment-assisted creation and enhancement of two-mode entanglement in a joint decoherent model

We investigate the entanglement dynamics of two modes in a common squeezed thermal environment by means of the characteristic function method and the logarithmic negativity. When the two modes are prepared initially in separable squeezed states, we find that the external environment can not only induce but also enhance the two-mode entanglement if their initial squeezing parameters are suitably chosen. When the two modes are initially in a two-mode squeezed vacuum state, we find that whether the initial entanglement is degraded or increased depends strongly on the difference between the squeezing parameters of the considered bath and of a quantum state. Finally, we give a condition of all two-mode entangled Gaussian states to be the decoherence-free state in a given squeezed bath.

Enhancement of motional entanglement of cold atoms by pairwise scattering of photons

Enhancement of motional entanglement of cold atoms by pairwise scattering of photons

MORPHOLOGICAL EVOLUTION AND VISCOELASTIC BEHAVIOR OF COMPATIBILIZED HDPE/PA6 BLENDS

Morphologies and viscoelastic behavior of high density polyethylene/nylon 6(HDPE/PA6) blends compatibilized by maleic anhydride grafted high density polyethylene(HDPE-g-MAH) were studied through observation of scanning electron microscope(SEM) and dynamic rheological testing.It is found that HDPE-g-MAH can efficiently enhance the compatibility between PA6 and HDPE and improve the dispersion of PA6 and the interfacial state of phases due to in situ forming of graft copolymer(HDPE-g-PA6).Such improvement appears more obviously with the increasing of HDPE-g-MAH content when the concentration of HDPE-g-MAH is below 20 wt%.Hence,change of HDPE-g-PA6 amount also results in corresponding variations of linear viscoelastic behavior for the blends.The zero shear viscosity of blends increases with the addition of HDPE-g-MAH and approaches invariablenes with 20 wt% HDPE-g-MAH.At low frequency region the dependence of storage modulus on frequency for the blends tends to be weakened with the increase of HDPE-g-MAH concentration and begins to show "second plateau" with 10 wt% HDPE-g-MAH.These phenomena reflect macromolecular-chains entanglement enhancement due to HDPE-g-PA6 forming.Both changes in morphologies and viscoelastic behavior for blends are ascribed to formation of HDPE-g-PA6.Compared with SEM observation,dynamic rheological testing gives much information about interface and interaction between macromolecular-chains.It is suggested that structure evolution with increase of HDPE-g-MAH content for HDPE/PA6 blends can be characterized preferably by using dynamic rheological measurements.

Two-channel interaction of squeeze-transformed modes with dressed atoms: Entanglement enhancement in four-wave mixing in three-level systems

We analyze quantum correlations in four-wave mixing in three-level $\ensuremath{\Lambda}$ and V atomic systems by using dressed atomic states and squeeze-transformed cavity modes. Two dissipation channels are identified, through which the dressed atoms simultaneously absorb in the excitations from the pair of squeeze-transformed modes. It is in the presence of two channels that the entanglement is greatly enhanced and the best achievable state approaches the original Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen entangled state. This scheme is applicable in the optical regime where atomic spontaneous emission has to be taken into account, unlike the two-step atomic reservoir engineering scheme, which is limited to the microwave regime.

IMPURITY EFFECTS ON THE ENTANGLEMENT OF SPIN-ONE HEISENBERG MODEL

The entanglement characteristics of the three-qutrit spin-one Heisenberg chain in the presence of one impurity site is investigated by using the concept of negativity. The results show that the existence of impurity can lead to an enhancement of both bipartite and pairwise entanglement for certain ranges of the impurity parameter, and the amount of entanglement can be controlled and tuned by varying the impurity parameter J1. The results also show that the thermal fluctuations always suppress the entanglement and as a result there exists a threshold temperature Tth after which the entanglement vanishes. Tth increases as J1 increases except the case for that of the pairwise negativity [Formula: see text] which measures entanglement between the two norm spins in the chain.

Monogamy and ground-state entanglement in highly connected systems

We consider the ground-state entanglement in highly connected many-body systems, consisting of harmonic oscillators and spin-1/2 systems. Varying their degree of connectivity, we investigate the interplay between the enhancement of entanglement, due to connections, and its frustration, due to monogamy constraints. Remarkably, we see that in many situations the degree of entanglement in a highly connected system is essentially of the same order as in a low connected one. We also identify instances in which the entanglement decreases as the degree of connectivity increases.

Enhancement of entanglement for two-mode fields generated from four-wave mixing with the help of the auxiliary atomic transition

The entanglement properties of two mode fields generated from four-wave mixing are discussed in the system of an ensemble of V-type three-level atoms embedded in a two-mode cavity, in which the atomic transitions from the two excited states to the ground state are driven by one strong and one relative weak laser field, respectively. The nondegenerate four-wave mixing process occurs in the strong laser-driven transition, which is also coupled by the two cavity modes. With the help of the auxiliary atomic transition driven by the weak laser field and adjusting the frequency difference of the two modes, highly squeezed and entangled light with high intensity can be generated.

Enhancement of entanglement in the nonlinear optical coupler by homodyne-mediated feedback

The enhancement of the intracavity entanglement of a nonlinear coupler via homodyne-mediated quantum feedback is investigated. It is found that the feedback can effectively enhance the squeezing, entanglement and purity of a two-mode field in the nonlinear coupler by appropriately choosing the quadrature angle at which the quantum feedback is introduced.

QUANTUM CONTROL BASED ON QUANTUM INFORMATION

Quantum control strategy is discussed from the perspective of quantum information. First, the constraints imposed on quantum control by quantum theory are analyzed. Then some quantum control schemes based on quantum information are discussed, such as teleportation-based distant quantum control, quantum feedback control using quantum cloning and state recognition, quantum control based on measurement and Grover iteration. Finally, some applications of quantum control theory in quantum information and quantum computation such as quantum error correction coding, universality analysis of quantum computation, feedback-induced entanglement enhancement, etc., are presented and the potential applications of quantum control are also prospected.

Entanglement enhancement and postselection for two atoms interacting with thermal light

The evolution of entanglement for two identical two-level atoms coupled to a resonant thermal field is studied for two different families of input states. Entanglement enhancement is predicted for a well-defined region of the parameter space of one of these families. The most intriguing result is the possibility of probabilistic production of maximally entangled atomic states even if the input atomic state is factorized and the corresponding output state is separable.

Entanglement, avoided crossings, and quantum chaos in an Ising model with a tilted magnetic field

We study a one-dimensional Ising model with a magnetic field and show that tilting the field induces a transition to quantum chaos. We explore the stationary states of this Hamiltonian to show the intimate connection between entanglement and avoided crossings. In general, entanglement gets exchanged between the states undergoing an avoided crossing with an overall enhancement of multipartite entanglement at the closest point of approach, simultaneously accompanied by diminishing two-body entanglement as measured by concurrence. We find that both for stationary as well as nonstationary states, nonintegrability leads to a destruction of two-body correlations and distributes entanglement more globally.