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arXiv:1403.4660 · Optics Express

Entanglement distillation for quantum communication network with atomic-ensemble memories

Tao Li, Guo-Jian Yang, Fu-Guo Deng

Published Sep 23, 2014• 31 citations
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Abstract

Atomic ensembles are effective memory nodes for quantum communication network due to the long coherence time and the collective enhancement effect for the nonlinear interaction between an ensemble and a photon. Here we investigate the possibility of achieving the entanglement distillation for nonlocal atomic ensembles by the input-output process of a single photon as a result of cavity quantum electrodynamics. We give an optimal entanglement concentration protocol (ECP) for two-atomic-ensemble systems in a partially entangled pure state with known parameters and an efficient ECP for the systems in an unknown partially entangled pure state with a nondestructive parity-check detector (PCD). For the systems in a mixed entangled state, we introduce an entanglement purification protocol with PCDs. These entanglement distillation protocols have high fidelity and efficiency with current experimental techniques, and they are useful for quantum communication network with atomic-ensemble memories.

DOI
10.1364/oe.22.023897

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We investigate an atomic entanglement purification protocol based on the coherent state input-output process by working in low-Q cavity in the atom-cavity intermediate coupling region. The information of entangled states are encoded in three-level configured single atoms confined in separated one-side optical micro-cavities. Using the coherent state input-output process, we design a two-qubit parity check module (PCM), which allows the quantum nondemolition measurement for the atomic qubits, and show its use for remote parities to distill a high-fidelity atomic entangled ensemble from an initial mixed state ensemble nonlocally. The proposed scheme can further be used for unknown atomic states entanglement concentration. Also by exploiting the PCM, we describe a modified scheme for atomic entanglement concentration by introducing ancillary single atoms. As the coherent state input-output process is robust and scalable in realistic applications, and the detection in the PCM is based on the intensity of outgoing coherent state, the present protocols may be widely used in large-scaled and solid-based quantum repeater and quantum information processing.
We illustrate an entanglement distillation protocol (EDP) for a mixed photon-ensemble which composed of four kinds of entangled states and vacuum states. Exploiting the linear optics and local entanglement resource (four-qubit entangled GHZ state), we design the nondemolition parity-checking and qubit amplifying (PCQA) setup for photonic polarization degree of freedom which are the key device of our scheme. With the PCQA setup, a high-fidelity entangled photon-pair system can be achieved against the transmission losses and the decoherence in noisy channels. And in the available purification range for our EDP, the fidelity of this ensemble can be improved to the maximal value through iterated operations. Compared to the conventional entanglement purification schemes, our scheme largely reduces the initialization requirement of the distilled mixed quantum system, and overcomes the difficulties posed by inherent channel losses during photon transmission. All these advantages make this scheme more useful in the practical applications of long-distance quantum communication.
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This paper presents an optimal entanglement concentration protocol (ECP) for entangled solid-state systems, using the coherent-state input–output process working in the low-Q cavity quantum electrodynamics regime. The solid-state system can be described as a three-level atom confined in a one-side optical microcavity. Using the ancillary coherent optical pulse to perform the cavity input–output process, different state-dependent phase shifts of the output coherent state can be discriminated by homodyne detection, and a less-entangled atomic pair can be concentrated to maximally entangled state in a certain probability between two remote parties nonlocally. By repeating the concentration process, the remote parties can further obtain a higher success probability. Compared with conventional ECPs, only one pair of less-entangled atoms is needed in the proposed protocol, and the coherent-state input–output process is working in a low-Q cavity in the atom–cavity intermediate coupling region. With feasible technologies, this protocol may be widely used in quantum repeaters and long-distance quantum communication.
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