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Physical Review A

Generation of entanglement and squeezing in the system of two ions trapped in a cavity

Gao‐xiang Li, Shao‐ping Wu, J. F. Hu

Published Jun 24, 2005• 41 citations
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Abstract

The dynamical behavior of the entanglement and the squeezing in the system of two ions trapped in a lossy optical cavity is discussed, in which the vibrational mode of the first ion is coupled to the cavity field via a linear-mixing interaction and the vibrational mode of the second ion is coupled to the cavity field via an effective parametric interaction, respectively. It is found that when the effective strength ${r}_{1}$ of the coupling between the first ion and the cavity field is stronger than the strength ${r}_{2}$ of the coupling between the second ion and the cavity field, the motional state of the two ions develops into a robust two-mode mixed Gaussian entangled state and the two-mode squeezing of phonons appears. But the entanglement between the cavity mode and the vibrational mode of the second ion can only happen periodically in a small time range. When ${r}_{1}<{r}_{2}$, only the entanglement between the two vibrational modes appears but the two-mode squeezing does not exist. And the entanglement between the cavity mode and the motional mode of the second ion can also take place in a small time range.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.71.063817

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We consider a system consisting of a single two-level ion in a harmonic trap, which is localized inside an optical cavity in contact with a thermal bath and subjected to the action of two external lasers. We are able to obtain an analytical solution for the total density operator of the system and show that squeezing in the motion of the ion and in the cavity field is generated. We also show that complete revivals of the states of the motion of the ion and of the cavity field occur periodically when the temperature is zero. The correlations and entanglement between the motion and the cavity field are studied. We found that for entanglement may either disappear completely for finite times or disappear and appear during finite intervals.