We consider two superconducting charge qubits coupled by a single-mode quantized field. We suppose that the two superconducting charge qubits be initially prepared in the mixed and separable state. As time evolves, we will investigate the entanglement between two superconducting charge qubits induced by the quantized field.
We investigate time evolution of the entanglement between charge qubit initially in mixed states and quantized field. By calculating the concurrence lower bound, we study the effect of initial mixedness λ and detuning Δ on the entanglement of the system. In the case of weak field, the degree of entanglement for charge qubit being initially in excited state is much larger than that for charge qubit being initially in ground state, and detuning Δ can efficiently reduce the entanglement. But in the case of strong field, the time evolution of the entanglement is about the same for charge qubit being initially in excited and ground states, the more mixed the initial state of charge qubit is prepared, the weaker the entanglement is, and Δ has less effect on the entanglement than in the case of weak field.
We study the interaction between a single-mode quantized field and a quantum system composed of two qubits. We suppose that two qubits initially be prepared in the mixed and separable state, and study how entanglement between two qubits arises in the course of evolution according to the Jaynes–Cummings type interaction with nonclassical radiation field. We also investigate the relation between entanglement and purity of qubit subsystem. We show that different photon statistics have different effects on the dynamical behavior of the qubit subsystem. When the qubits are initially prepared in the maximally mixed and separable state, for coherent state field we cannot find entanglement between two qubits; for squeezed state field entanglement between two qubits exists in several short period of time; for even and odd coherent state fields of large photon number, the dynamical behavior of the entanglement between two qubits shows collapse and revival phenomenon. For odd coherent state field of small photon number, the entanglement with both qubits initially prepared in maximally mixed state can be stronger than that with both qubits initially prepared in pure states. For fields of small photon number, the entanglement strongly depends on the states they are initially prepared in. For coherent state field, and odd and even coherent state fields of large photon number, the entanglement only depends on the purity of the initial state of qubit subsystem. We also show that during the evolution the unentangled state may be purer than the entangled state, and the maximum degree of entanglement may not occur at the time when the qubit subsystem is in the purist state.
We consider the entanglement of two remote qubits induced by local interaction with the two-mode nonclassical state fields. We investigate the transfer of entanglement from different two-mode nonclassical state fields to a pair of separable and mixed qubits. We find that no matter what state the qubit subsystem is initially prepared in, at the specific time $gt\ensuremath{\simeq}11.07$ the entanglement of the Bell state fields can be almost completely transferred to the qubit subsystem, i.e., the Bell state fields can drive an initially separable and very mixed state of qubits into an almost pure highly entangled state suitable for quantum information processing. For the entangled coherent state fields $\ensuremath{\mid}u⟩={N}_{1}(\ensuremath{\mid}\ensuremath{\alpha},\ensuremath{-}\ensuremath{\alpha}⟩+\ensuremath{\mid}\ensuremath{-}\ensuremath{\alpha},\ensuremath{\alpha}⟩)$ and $\ensuremath{\mid}{u}^{\ensuremath{'}}⟩={N}_{2}(\ensuremath{\mid}\ensuremath{\alpha},\ensuremath{-}\ensuremath{\alpha}⟩\ensuremath{-}\ensuremath{\mid}\ensuremath{-}\ensuremath{\alpha},\ensuremath{\alpha}⟩)$ we find that when $\ensuremath{\mid}\ensuremath{\alpha}\ensuremath{\mid}$ is small, the dynamic behaviors of the entanglement between two qubits are quite different. For $\ensuremath{\mid}u⟩$ there is almost no entanglement between two qubits while for $\ensuremath{\mid}{u}^{\ensuremath{'}}⟩$ the dynamic behavior of the entanglement between two qubits is very similar to that of the Bell state field. For large $\ensuremath{\mid}\ensuremath{\alpha}\ensuremath{\mid}$ we find that the dynamic behaviors of entanglement between two qubits are almost the same for these two fields, and when $gt\ensuremath{\sim}\ensuremath{\mid}\ensuremath{\alpha}\ensuremath{\mid}\ensuremath{\pi}$ the entanglement between two qubits reaches its maximum and is almost independent of initial mixedness of the qubit subsystem. For the two-mode squeezed vacuum state field we find that when $r\ensuremath{\sim}0.86$ and $gt\ensuremath{\simeq}11.07$ the entanglement transfer reaches its maximum which also almost does not depend on the initial mixedness of the qubit subsystem.
Two charge qubits being coupled to a damped cavity with different couplings are considered. The dynamical evolution of the entanglement between the two qubits is demonstrated analytically or numerically. It is found that with the cavity dissipation, the steady entanglement between the two qubits can be achieved. The two qubits being initially in the separable and most mixed state can be easily induced to a steady entangled state, and the relative difference of the couplings can be used to enhance the steady entanglement between the two charge qubits.
We propose a scheme to physically interface superconducting nanocircuits and quantum optics. We address the transfer of quantum information between systems having different physical natures and defined in Hilbert spaces of different dimensions. In particular, we investigate the transfer of the entanglement initially in a nonclassical state of an infinite dimensional system to a pair of superconducting charge qubits. This setup is able to drive an initially separable state of the qubits into an almost pure, highly entangled state suitable for quantum information processing.