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1 A Simple Scheme to Entangle Distant Qubits from a Mixed State via an Entanglement Mediator

Kazuya Yuasa, Hiromichi Nakazato

Published Jan 1, 2004• 6 citations
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Abstract

A simple scheme to prepare an entanglement between two separated qubits from a given mixed state is proposed. A single qubit (entanglement mediator) is repeatedly made to interact locally and consecutively with the two qubits through rotating-wave couplings and is then measured. It is shown that we need to repeat this kind of process only three times to establish a maximally entangled state directly from an arbitrary initial mixed state, with no need to prepare the state of the qubits in advance or to rearrange the setup step by step. Furthermore, the maximum yield realizable with this scheme is compatible with the maximum entanglement, provided that the coupling constants are properly tuned. Entanglement is one of the peculiar concepts in quantum physics. It shows a nonlocal property of quantum mechanics, and is the essence of nonclassical phenomena. This concept is now regarded as a key to moving beyond classical ideas and plays a central role in the field of quantum information and computation. 1),2) The peculiarity of entanglement reveals itself especially when it involves spatially separated systems. Nonlocality has been studied in such situations, 3) and such an entanglement is of fundamental importance in quantum communication, for example,

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A simple scheme to prepare an entanglement between two separated qubits from a given mixed state is proposed. A single qubit (entanglement mediator) is repeatedly made to interact locally and consecutively with the two qubits through rotating-wave couplings and is then measured. It is shown that we need to repeat this kind of process only three times to establish a maximally entangled state directly from an arbitrary initial mixed state, with no need to prepare the state of the qubits in advance or to rearrange the setup step by step. Furthermore, the maximum yield realizable with this scheme is compatible with the maximum entanglement, provided that the coupling constants are properly tuned. Entanglement is one of the peculiar concepts in quantum physics. It shows a nonlocal property of quantum mechanics, and is the essence of nonclassical phenomena. This concept is now regarded as a key to moving beyond classical ideas and plays a central role in the field of quantum information and computation. 1),2) The peculiarity of entanglement reveals itself especially when it involves spatially separated systems. Nonlocality has been studied in such situations, 3) and such an entanglement is of fundamental importance in quantum communication, for example,
A simple scheme to prepare an entanglement between two separated qubits from a given mixed state is proposed. A single qubit (entanglement mediator) is repeatedly made to interact locally and consecutively with the two qubits through rotating-wave couplings and is then measured. It is shown that we need to repeat this kind of process only three times to establish a maximally entangled state directly from an arbitrary initial mixed state, with no need to prepare the state of the qubits in advance or to rearrange the setup step by step. Furthermore, the maximum yield realizable with this scheme is compatible with the maximum entanglement, provided that the coupling constants are properly tuned.
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.
Nonlocality and quantum entanglement constitute two special aspects of the quantum correlations existing in quantum systems, which are of paramount importance in quantum-information theory. Traditionally, they have been regarded as identical (equivalent, in fact, for pure two qubit states, that is, Gisin's Theorem ), yet they constitute different resources. Describing nonlocality by means of the violation of several Bell inequalities, we obtain by direct optimization those states of two qubits that maximally violate a Bell inequality, in terms of their degree of mixture as measured by either their participation ratio R = 1/Tr(ρ 2 ) or their maximum eigenvalue λ max . This optimum value is obtained as well, which coincides with previous results. Comparison with entanglement is performed too. An example of an application is given in the XY model. In this novel approximation, we also concentrate on the nonlocality for linear combinations of pure states of two qubits, providing a closed form for their maximal nonlocality measure. The case of Bell diagonal mixed states of two qubits is also extensively studied. Special attention concerning the connection between nonlocality and entanglement for mixed states of two qubits is paid to the so-called maximally entangled mixed states. Additional aspects for the case of two qubits are also described in detail. Since we deal with qubit systems, we will perform an analogous study for three qubits, employing similar tools. Relation between distillability and nonlocality is explored quantitatively for the whole space of states of three qubits. We finally extend our analysis to four-qubit systems, where nonlocality for generalized Greenberger–Horne–Zeilinger states of arbitrary number of parties is computed.
There has recently been much discussion regarding entanglement transformations in terms of local filtering operations and whether the optimal entanglement for an arbitrary two-qubit state could be realized. We introduce an experimentally realizable scheme for manipulating the entanglement of an arbitrary state of two polarization-entangled qubits. This scheme is then used to provide some perspective to the mathematical concepts inherent in this field with respect to a laboratory environment. Specifically, we look at how to extract enhanced entanglement from systems with a fixed rank, and, in the case where the rank of the density operator for the state can be reduced, show how the state can be made arbitrarily close to a maximally entangled pure state. In this context we also discuss bounds on entanglement in mixed states.
Quantum entanglement emerges naturally in interacting quantum systems and plays a central role in quantum information processing. Remarkably, it is possible to generate entanglement even in the absence of direct interactions: provided that which path information is erased, weak spin-state dependent light scattering can be used to project two distant spins onto a maximally entangled state upon detection of a single photon. Even though this approach is necessarily probabilistic, successful generation of entanglement is heralded by the photon detection event. Here, we demonstrate heralded quantum entanglement of two quantum dot heavy-hole spins separated by 5 meters using single-photon interference. Thanks to the long coherence time of hole spins and the efficient spin-photon interface provided by self-assembled quantum dots embedded in leaky microcavity structures, we generate 2300 entangled spin pairs per second, which represents an improvement approaching three orders of magnitude as compared to prior experiments. Delayed two-photon interference scheme we developed allows for efficient verification of quantum correlations. Our results lay the groundwork for the realization of quantum networks in semiconductor nanostructures. Combined with schemes for transferring quantum information to a long-lived memory qubit, fast entanglement generation we demonstrate could also impact quantum repeater architectures.
The generation and control of quantum states of spatially-separated qubits distributed in different cavities constitute fundamental tasks in cavity quantum electrodynamics (QED). An interesting question in this context is how to prepare entanglement and realize quantum information transfer between qubits located at different cavities, which are important in large-scale quantum information processing. In this paper, we consider a physical system consisting of two cavities and three qubits. Two of the qubits are placed in two different cavities while the remaining one acts as a coupler, which is used to connect the two cavities. We propose an approach for generating quantum entanglement and implementing quantum information transfer between the two spatially-separated inter-cavity qubits. The quantum operations involved in this proposal are performed by a virtual photon process; thus the cavity decay is greatly suppressed during operations. In addition, to complete these tasks, only one coupler qubit and one operation step are needed. Moreover, there is no need to apply classical pulses, so that the engineering complexity is much reduced and the operation procedure is greatly simplified. Finally, our numerical results illustrate that high-fidelity implementation of this proposal using superconducting phase qubits and one-dimensional transmission line resonators is feasible for current circuit QED implementations. This proposal can also be applied to other types of superconducting qubits, including flux and charge qubits.