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Journal of the Optical Society of America B

Generation of triple-entanglement in second-order optical topological kagome structure

Ming-Jie Liao, Mei-Song Wei, Zijian Lin, Chengjie Zhu, Jingping Xu, Yaping Yang

Published Feb 28, 2023• 2 citations
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Abstract

The combination of topological photonics and quantum optics has promising applications. In previous works, the role of the edge states of conventional topological optical structure in the coherent coupling between atoms has been discussed. Besides the optimistic results, we find that if the coupling coefficient between the atom and element-cavity exceeds the coupling coefficient between cavities in the array, atoms cannot be effectively coupled with each other through the edge states. Here, we generalize to higher-order structures and explore the dynamics of three atoms interacting with the cavity array based on the kagome-type optically coupled-cavity array with topologically protected corner states. Three atoms are theoretically coupled in three corner cavities, and various quantum behaviors can be displayed in different parameters. It is shown that three atoms mediated by the corner state can be coherently coupled with each other, without the constraint of the coupling coefficient, and can induce entanglement, which shows that the high-order topological optical structure has more advantages than the conventional topological optical structure in coherent coupling among qubits. In addition, we also studied atoms mediated by edge states. The results show that the atoms mediated by edge states can be coherently coupled only in the weak coupling regime, and the entanglement effect induced by the edge states is not as good as that of the corner state. It indicates that the corner state is more useful than the edge state in the second-order optical topological structure. Our results can offer references for applying optical topological structure in quantum computing and quantum communication.

DOI
10.1364/josab.483916

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