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Two- and three-mode dressed entanglement multichannel in cavity four-wave mixing of Pr 3+ : YSO

Xiaoli Wang, Zepei Li, Feng Wen, Yun Xu, Lingxiang Peng, Wei Niu, Peiyu Li, Yanpeng Zhang

Published Oct 20, 2016• 0 citations

Abstract

Abstract We report a theoretical study into the two- and three-mode entanglement inside an atom-like optical cavity. A five-level system is considered and the influence of the multi-dressed parametric amplification four-wave mixing (PA-FWM) process on the quantum correlation of fluctuation spectra is researched. Three-mode entanglement is determined by the coupling of two nonlinear gains; one of enhanced gains via the dressing state plays a dominant role in controlling and optimizing the profile of three-mode entanglement via vacuum Rabi splitting, enhancement/suppression of entanglement as well as two-mode. Specifically, increasing the quantity of dressing fields may result in the single-channel entanglement turning into nonlocal multichannel (multiple anti-crossing behaviors). Moreover, these entanglement channels can be squashed via the lateral squeezing effect of the cavity. Such multichannel entanglement has potential applications in nonlocal quantum imaging and quantum key distribution.

DOI: 10.1088/1612-2011/13/11/115701

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