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Physical Review A

Scalable continuous-variable entanglement of optical fields via concurrent interactions with separated atomic ensembles

Hong Yue Sun, Xiangming Hu

Published Mar 19, 2012• 2 citations
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Abstract

It has been known that one reservoir of driven two-level atoms can establish two-mode interactions and generate bipartite continuous-variable entangled light. Here we show that three-mode interactions can be created by combining two such reservoirs, each of which interacts with two adjacent fields in frequency. It is shown that the van Loock--Furusawa criteria [Phys. Rev. A 67, 052315 (2003)] are well satisfied for a wide range of the relevant parameters. This determines that tripartite continuous-variable Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger entanglement is obtainable. The scalability to more fields is straightforward, allowing an alternative implementation of a multipartite quantum networks with continuous variables.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.85.032320

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