Abstract
We present a theoretical scheme to generate N-quNit singlet states with Nāā3 via adiabatic passage. In this protocol, the system may be robust against both experimental parameter fluctuations and dissipations along dark states. In addition, during the whole procedure, quantum information is almost fully transferred between atomic ground states. It reduces the influence of dissipations such as atomic spontaneous emissions and cavity decays. Thus, the presented proposal may be feasible based on current technologies.
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Introduction
Quantum entanglement, originally proposed by Einstein et al.1, plays a central role in the test of Bellās theorem without inequalities2. It now has become an important resource for quantum information processing, quantum computation, quantum measurement, and so on3,4,5,6,7,8. Quantum entanglement can be divided into several categories mainly according to two parameters, e.g., subsystemsā numbers and dimensions. But even when the two parameters are same, quantum structure may be different, such as W and GHZ states for entanglement among three qubits9. It is now known that different types possess their own distinct properties in quantum society. Especially for multi-level (or called high-dimension) entangled states, they are more significant in testing quantum nonlocality and realizing quantum informaiton processing than entangled qubits due to their richer structures2,10,11. Thereby, there are lots of documents to discuss the preparation and applications of multi-level entanglement. In this paper, we focus on a special one, i.e. a singlet state. It was put forward by Cabello in 2002 and considered to be robust against collective decoherence due to their total spins being equal to zero12, which makes it attractive. In other words, any an entangled state with total spin zero is called singlet states. So, singlet states involve several types. Here, what we are interested in is the N-particle-and-N-dimension singlet state, (i.e. N-quNit singlet state, or NNSS for short) whose distinctive characteristic is to realize an unknown unitary transformation13 and to solve several practical problems without classical solutions, including āN -strangersā, āsecret sharingā and āliar detectionā14. An NNSS can be mathematically expressed as
where t is the number of transpositions of pairs of elements that must be composed to place the elements in canonical order.
Although singlet states may be significant for quantum computation, it is a great challenge to prepare NNSS when not only in theory but also in experiment. The reason is that it is hard to find a system including N particles with N dimensions and let them interact simultaneously. Until 2005, Jin et al. presented a scheme for the preparation of NNSS with Nā=ā3 (33SS), attracting much attention15. After that, several scenarios were proposed for generating 33SS16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23, in which only two different methods were used. One method needs several steps to generate 33SS15, while the other one proposed by us needs only one step to generate 33SS from 22SS18 and it may be generalized for generating NNSS with Nā>ā3 more easily than the first one. Based on the second method, Shao et al. suggested a model for a series of Ī-like multilevel atoms interacting with a multi-mode cavity in 201024. However, in their work, high-dimension NNSS with Nā>ā3 may be hardly realized because it need all atoms to interact with a (Nāāā1)-mode cavity. In 2016, the similar idea was discussed by Chen et al.25. Can we avoid the use of a multi-mode cavity for the generation of NNSS? Yes. An alternative scheme using Rydberg-blockade mechanism and adiabatic-passage technology was reported by us also in 201626. But the scheme may be strongly influenced by spontaneous emission of ladder-type Rydberg atoms.
How can we realize storing an NNSS in ground states and avoid the use of a multi-mode cavity at the same time? In this paper, we suggest to generate NNSS for atoms with Nāāā1 excited states and N ground states in a single-mode cavity via adiabatic passage. The reason why we use adiabatic-passage technology is that it is insensitive to the variation of experimental parameters27,28,29. Based on this technology or its further versions (such as transitionless quantum driving30 and invariant-based shortcut31), many suggestions are shown to realize multi-level entanglement, e.g. shown in the refs 22, 23, 25, 26 and 32.
This paper is organized as follows. Section II describes how to realize a 33SS on the basis of 22SS. Section III introduces how to generate NNSS. In Section IV, some numerical simulations and analysis are made to show the feasibility of the preparation of NNSS. Finally, we draw a conclusion is made in Section V.
Generation of atomic 33SS
Figure 1 illustrates three atoms are trapped in a single-mode cavity. Each atom has three ground states |g0ćk, |g1ćk, |g2ćk and two excited states |e0ćk, |e1ćk with the subscript k representing the kth atom. The jth (jā=ā0, 1) laser pulse focuses on the transition with time-dependent Rabi frequency Ī©jk(t) and frequency detuning Īj+1, while the transition is coupled to the cavity with coupling constant g(j+1)k and the frequency detuning Īj+1, meaning that each two adjacent ground states for each atom interact with laser and the cavity mode by the two-photon resonance. With the consideration of resolved sideband and rotating-wave approximation, the total Hamiltonian for this system, in the interaction picture, reads (ħā=ā1)
where a+ is a creation operator of the cavity mode and H.c. denotes Hermitian conjugate terms.
Taking into account of large detuning conditions, i.e. , , we can adiabatically eliminate the excited states |ejćk, leading the interaction Hamiltonian to be
with
The first term describes Stark shifts induced by classical lasers, the second one shows photon-number-dependent Stark shifts induced by the cavity mode, and the third denotes the interaction between the cavity mode and the transition of the two ground states .
For the sake of simplicity, we add another laser pulses for nonresonantly coupling to the atomic ground states so as to compensate atomic Stark shifts by laser pulses (the first term described in Eq. (3))33, then we have
In addition, we suppose the second and the third atoms are identical, resulting in Xj3ā=āXj2ā=āXj, where Xā=āĪ©, g, Ī, A, B, G and the Stark shifts for these three atoms induced by the cavity mode are equal, i.e. G0kā=āG1kā=āG. For the motivation to prepare 33SS, the system is initially in the state , i.e. the first atom is initially in |g0ć, the second and the third ones are prepared in 22SS, and the cavity is in the vacuum state |0ć. To calculate the evolution of the system state and make it compact, we first define some states and operators:
Then the whole system without consideration of any dissipations will be confined in the closed subspace , reducing the effective Hamiltonian (5) to be
Reshaping the Eq. (7) in the matrix form and diagonalizing it, we can obtain a time-dependent dark state with a null eigenvalue, i.e.
For simplicity, we set B1kā=āĻ1B0k(t) (kā=ā1, 2) with Ļ1 being time-independent. Due to , if we design laser pulses satisfying28
we can adiabatically transfer the initial system state to a 33SS
Now, we have prepared a 33SS on the basis of 22SS with the cavity mode always in the vacuum state.
Generalization for the preparation of NNSS
In this section, we generalize the above suggestion to prepare NNSS. Similarly, we need to trapped N atoms with N ground states and Nāāā1 excited states in a single-mode cavity. The atomic structure and transitions are shown in Fig. 2. We also consider the large-detuning condition to eliminate excited states and add another laser pulses to get rid of Stark shifts induced by laser pulses. For simplicity, we assume all atoms except the first one are identical and all Stark shifts induced by the cavity mode are same. In this situation, the effective Hamiltonian for these N atoms and the cavity mode is
where Gā=āGjk, with Gjk, Bj1, Bjl being defined in Eq. (4). It should be pointed out although Stark shifts Gjk for all levels can not directly be equal, but we can use compensating technologies to let them be approximately equal, which is sufficient for our proposal. We assume that the system is initially prepared in the state , i.e. the initial state of the first atom (the other Nāāā1 atoms) is |gNā1ć , and the cavity mode is in the vacuum state |0ć. Similar to Eq. (6), let us define some states and operators for all atoms except the first one, i.e.
In the subspace
the Hamiltonian reduces to
In order to demonstrate the relationship among logic states in the subspace and how to generalize the scheme to prepare NNSS with Nā>ā3, we illustrate them in Fig. 3, where, for example, the lowest levels correspond to the system state with the cavity mode in the vacuum state. After a calculation to diagonalize the matrix described in Eq. (14), we found the system has a time-dependent dark state, i.e.
For simplicity, we set Bl,sā=āĻlB0,s(t) (lā=ā1, 2, ā¦, Nāāā2; sā=ā1, 2) with Ļl being time-independent. Then we design laser pulses satisfying
for adiabatic transfer from the initial system state to an NNSS
In this situation, we have prepared an NNSS with the cavity mode always in the vacuum state.
Numerical analysis
According to Eq. (16), we design two time-dependent pulses to be ref. 28
where Ī©0 represents the time-independent amplitude and T (Ļ) the pulse width (delay) and then plot the fidelity versus the variations of the interaction time t in Fig. 4, where the density matrix for the whole system Ļ(t) satisfies the Schrƶdinger equation and HNe is shown in Eq. (11). In Fig. 4, we have only given the evolution for Nā=ā3, 4, 5, 6 with the choice of , , gā=āĪ©0, Īā=ā10āĪ©0. It should be noted that there are similar results for larger N.
Results show that the fidelity for Nā=ā3 to 5 can rise to the value close to 0.99, and the maximum fidelity for Nā=ā6 can also reach about 0.97, meaning that a singlet state for three, four, five, or six atoms can be generated. And we can predict an atomic NNSS with can be realized if we have prepared (Nāāā1)ā(Nāāā1)SS.
However, we should admit that the fidelity will decrease with the increase of N when all parameters have been set. For example, the fidelity for 55SS is about 0.99, whereas the fidelity of 66SS is only 0.97. Why does it happen? Here, we would show that the increase of pulse width, pulse delay and required time may make it happen. Figure 5 illustrates the fidelity of 66SS as a function of pulse width, where we set gā=āĪ©0, Īā=ā10āĪ©0, , tā=ā5T. It was clearly demonstrated that without consideration of the dissipation, the larger T is, the greater the fidelity F is, and the fidelity will finally reach a stable value which is close to 1. For instance, the fidelity raises from Fā=ā0.946 to 0.981 with the increase of T from to . Although we may improve the fidelity in this way, we should also accept the fact that it may result in some other problems, such as the effect of photon decay and spontaneous emission. Therefore, our protocol may only be feasible for limited number of atoms.
Last but not the least, we take the effect of photon decay into account. We resort to the master equation expressed as
where Īŗ denotes the decay rate of the cavity mode. In Fig. 6, we only depict the curve for the relationship of the fidelity versus the decay for , where we have set gā=āĪ©0, Īā=āĪ©0, , , tā=ā5T. Figure 5 clearly shows that the fidelity of the generated singlet states is scarcely insensitive to cavity decay. For example, the fidelity for Nā=ā3 only drops from Fā=ā0.997 to 0.994 when the cavity decay rate increases from Īŗā=ā0 to 0.1, while the fidelity for Nā=ā6 only drops from Fā=ā0.965 to 0.957. It should be noticed that the system would be influenced by spontaneous emission of atoms, but this effect may be suppressed with all atoms only virtually excited.
Feasibility and conclusions
In this section, we first make a brief discussion on the feasibility. The atomic levels used in our proposal can easily be found in hyperfine states of natural or artificial atoms, such as Cs atoms. Of course, the scale for the generated singlet states may be limited by atomic structures. For example, if we choose hyperfine states of 62S1/2 of 133Cs atoms to act as ground states and of 62P3/2 to act as excited states , then we can only realize the generation of an N-quNit singlet state with Nā=ā9 in an ideal condition. In addition, if we choose the parameters which is predicted by Spillane et al.34, then the fidelities for the generated singlet states for Nā=ā3, 4, 5, 6 are about 0.997, 0.993, 0.983, 0.965, respectively. Hence, our proposal may be feasible for generating singlet states of the limited number N of atoms.
In summary, a novel scheme has been proposed to generate NNSS with adiabatic passage, which may be suitable for arbitrary N in theory. Although the scale of a singlet state in the paper is restricted by atomic structures, it may open up a new idea for the generation of NNSS. In our scheme, quantum information is only transferred among atomic ground states, leading the system to be insensitive to atomic spontaneous emission and photon decays. In conclusion, the proposed scheme may be implemented with current techniques.
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R.C.Y., L.X.Y. and X.L. are supported by the NSFC (61308012 and 61275215) and R.C.Y. is also supported by the overseas studies scholarship under the Education Department of Fujian Province; H.Y.L. is supported by the NSFC (11647069). We thank X. M. Ding and G. L. Wang for helpful suggestions.
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