Acta Physica Sinica
PERIODIC ENTANGLEMENT BETWEEN THE INTERNAL AND EXTERANL DEGREE OF FREEDOM OF A TRAPPED ION IN A STANDING WAVE LASER
Mao-Fa Fang, LIU XIANG, 湖南师范大学理学院物理系,长沙410081
Abstract
We have investigated the quantum entropy and entanglement of the internal and external degrees of freedom of a trapped ion in a standing wave laser by transforming the Hamiltonian to that in the Jaynes-Cummings system for the bare basis of the trapped ion under the Lamb-Dicke limit. Under the off-resonant condition, we have found the periodic entanglement between the internal and external degrees of freedom of a trapped ion.