Chinese Optics Letters
New fractional entangling transform and its quantum mechanical correspondence
Shuang Xu, Liyun Hu, Jie‐Hui Huang
Abstract
In this Letter, a new fractional entangling transformation (FrET) is proposed, which is generated in the entangled state representation by a unitary operator expfiθðab † þ a † bÞg where aðbÞ is the Bosonic annihilate operator.The operator is actually an entangled one in quantum optics and differs evidently from the separable operator, expfiθða † a þ b † bÞg, of complex fractional Fourier transformation.The additivity property is proved by employing the entangled state representation and quantum mechanical version of the FrET.As an application, the FrET of a two-mode number state is derived directly by using the quantum version of the FrET, which is related to Hermite polynomials.