Study on Quantum Entanglement Between Mesoscopic Circuit and Environment at Coherent State

赵英燕, 姜年权

Ying-Yan Zhao, Nian-Quan Jiang

Hong-Yi Fan, Yue Fan, Song Tong-Qiang

梁宝龙, 王继锁, 孟祥国 +1 more

Yinghua Ji

Taking into account the interaction between electrons and phonons, in the case without-rotating-wave approximation, we study the entangling property between the mesoscopic circuit and environment at coherent state or equilibrium state. The result indicates that, in long time limit t → ∞, the averages of charge and current in the circuit only depend on the average of the system at the initial state when the environment is initially at thermal equilibrium. However, when the environment is initially at coherent state, the average of charge and current in the circuit is determined by the specific coherent state ensemble. Generally speaking, the entanglement between the circuit and environment will lead to the quantum state purity declining of the circuit, then the circuit emerges decoherent phenomenon, and so a mixed state appears. Purity changes are related to the initial quantum state of environment and circuit. With the further evolution of time, coherence will be gradually restored, but cannot return to 1.

Zhuoyuan Wang, Shi Yao Chong, Peihong Cheng +2 more

A mesoscopic circuit, where field quantization (e.g., coherent states and squeezed states) can be exhibited, is one of the ideal quantum systems for manifesting diverse quantum field theoretical phenomena and thermally statistical characteristics. Because of inevitable electromagnetic coupling (e.g., mutual capacitor coupling and mutual inductor coupling) in two neighboring mesoscopic electric circuits, quantum effects relevant to mesoscopic circuit coupling may play a key role in some devices of quantum information processing. Such a circuit coupling can lead to circuit entangled states, where the Fock number states of energy quanta in different circuits are entangled with each other. Since the time dependence in parameters of coupled-circuit Hamiltonian would result from environmental perturbations (e.g., temperature fluctuations in devices) or from some controllable manipulation (e.g., an incident ultrasonic wave), the circuit entangled states would evolve due to these external conditions. Time evolution of entangled states in coupled mesoscopic circuits is considered within a framework of time-dependent quantum theoretical formalism. Note that an applied photon field can also be coupled to such quantum entangled circuits. Then it is possible that an effect of entanglement transfer (i.e., transportation of superposition coefficients in the entangled state) from the quantum mesoscopic coupled LC circuits to the applied external photon field would also occur under some proper parameter conditions. The present characteristics of both quantized coupled mesoscopic circuits and entanglement transfer can also be found in some alternative microscopic- and mesoscopic-scale devices such as the systems in cavity quantum electrodynamics (QED).