Chinese Physics B

Promote entanglement trapping in photonic band gaps

Wei Han, Ying-Jie Zhang, Wei‐Bin Yan, Yun‐Jie Xia

Published Nov 1, 2014• 1 citation

Abstract

We study the entanglement trapping of two entangled qubits, each of which is in its own photonic band gap, based on the weak measurement and quantum measurement reversal. An almost maximal entanglement of the two-qubit system can be trapped by using a certain weak measurement strength. Furthermore, we find that the optimal entanglement enhancing is not only dependent on the weak measurement strength but also on the different initial states. The outcomes in our scheme are completely different from that without any measurement on the studied system.

DOI: 10.1088/1674-1056/23/11/110304

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