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arXiv:1805.07129 · Optics Letters

Efficient entanglement generation between exciton-polaritons using shortcuts to adiabaticity

Dionisis Stefanatos, Emmanuel Paspalakis

Published Jul 6, 2018• 16 citations
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Abstract

We use shortcuts to adiabaticity, a method introduced to speed up adiabatic quantum dynamics, for the efficient generation of entanglement between exciton-polaritons in coupled semiconductor microcavities. A substantial improvement is achieved, compared to a recently proposed method that essentially enhances the nonlinearity of the system. Our method takes advantage of a time-dependent nonlinearity, which can become larger than the Josephson coupling between the cavities, while the conventional method is restricted to a constant nonlinearity lower than the coupling. The suggested procedure is expected to also find application in other research areas in optics, where nonlinear interacting bosons are encountered.

DOI
10.1364/ol.43.003313

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