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arXiv2000

Entangling Atoms and Ions in Dissipative Environments

Quantum information processing rests on our ability to manipulate quantum superpositions through coherent unitary transformations, and to establish entanglement between constituent quantum components of the processor. The quantum information processor (a linear ion trap, or a cavity confining the radiation field for example) exists in a dissipative environment. We discuss ways in which entanglement can be established within such dissipative environments. We can even make use of a strong interaction of the system with its environment to produce entanglement in a controlled way.

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arXiv2000

Singlet aided infinite resource reduction in the comparison of distant fields

We present a task which can be faithfully solved with finite resources only when aided by particles prepared in a particular entangled state: the singlet state. The task consists of identifying the mutual parallelity or orthogonality of weak distant magnetic fields whose absolute directions are completely unknown.

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arXiv2000

Fundamental bounds on quantum measurements with a mixed apparatus

We consider the apparatus in a quantum measurement process to be in a mixed state. We propose a simple upper bound on the probability of correctly distinguishing any number of mixed states. We use this to derive fundamental bounds on the efficiency of a measurement in terms of the temperature of the apparatus.

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arXiv2000

Communication Capacity of Quantum Computation

By considering quantum computation as a communication process, we relate its efficiency to a communication capacity. This formalism allows us to rederive lower bounds on the complexity of search algorithms. It also enables us to link the mixedness of a quantum computer to its efficiency. We discuss the implications of our results for quantum measurement.

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arXiv1999

Mixedness and teleportation

We show that on exceeding a certain degree of mixedness (as quantified by the von Neumann entropy), entangled states become useless for teleporatation. By increasing the dimension of the entangled systems, this entropy threshold can be made arbitrarily close to maximal. This entropy is found to exceed the entropy threshold sufficient to ensure the failure of dense coding.

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arXiv1999

Proposal for teleportation of an atomic state via cavity decay

We show how the state of an atom trapped in a cavity can be teleported to a second atom trapped in a distant cavity simply by detecting photon decays from the cavities. This is a rare example of a decay mechanism playing a constructive role in quantum information processing. The scheme is comparatively easy to implement, requiring only the ability to trap a single three level atom in a cavity.

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arXiv1999

Mixed state dense coding and its relation to entanglement measures

Ideal dense coding protocols allow one to use prior maximal entanglement to send two bits of classical information by the physical transfer of a single encoded qubit. We investigate the case when the prior entanglement is not maximal and the initial state of the entangled pair of qubits being used for the dense coding is a mixed state. We find upper and lower bounds on the capability to do dense coding in terms of the various measures of entanglement and in terms of the average mutual distinguishability of the signal states.

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arXiv1999

Entanglement quantification and purification in continuous variable systems

We develop theoretical and numerical tools for the quantification of entanglement in systems with continuous degrees of freedom. Continuous variable entanglement swapping is introduced and based on this idea we develop methods of entanglement purification for continuous variable systems. The success of these entanglement purification methods is then assessed using these tools.

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arXiv1999

A Scheme to Probe the Decoherence of a Macroscopic Object

We propose a quantum optical version of Schrödinger's famous gedanken experiment in which the state of a microscopic system (a cavity field) becomes entangled with and disentangled from the state of a massive object (a movable mirror). Despite the fact that a mixture of Schrödinger cat states is produced during the evolution (due to the fact that the macroscopic mirror starts off in a thermal state), this setup allows us to systematically probe the rules by which a superposition of spatially separated states of a macroscopic object decoheres. The parameter regime required to test environment-induced decoherence models is found to be close to those currently realizable, while that required to detect gravitationally induced collapse is well beyond current technology.

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arXiv1997

Implementations of Quantum Logic: Fundamental and Experimental Limits

Quantum information processing rests on our ability to manipulate quantum superpositions through coherent unitary transformations. In reality the quantum information processor (a linear ion trap, or cavity qed implementation for example) exists in a dissipative environment. Dephasing, and other technical sources of noise, as well as more fundamental sources of dissipation severely restrict quantum processing capabilities. The strength of the coherent coupling needed to implement quantum logic is not always independent of dissipation. The limitations these dissipative influences present will be described and the need for efficient error correction noted. Even if long and involved quantum computations turn out to be hard to realize, one can perform interesting manipulations of entanglement involving only a few gates and qubits, of which we give examples. Quantum communication also involves manipulations of entanglement which are simpler to implement than elaborate computations. We briefly analyse the notion of the capacity of a quantum communication channel.

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arXiv1997

Preparation of Nonclassical States in Cavities with a Moving Mirror

We describe how a quantum system composed of a cavity field interacting with a movable mirror can be utilized to generate a large variety of nonclassical states of both the cavity field and the mirror. First we consider state preparation of the cavity field. The system dynamics will prepare a single mode of the cavity field in a multicomponent Schrödinger cat state, in a similar manner to that in a Kerr medium. In addition, when two or more cavity modes interact with the mirror, they may be prepared in an entangled state which may be regarded as a multimode generalisation of even and odd coherent states. We show also that near-number states of a single mode may be prepared by performing a measurement of the position of the mirror. Secondly we consider state preparation of the mirror, and show that this macroscopic object may be placed in a Scrödinger cat state by a quadrature measurement of the light field. In addition we examine the effect of the damping of the motion of the mirror on the field states inside the cavity, and compare this with the effect of cavity field damping.

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arXiv1997

A Multiparticle Generalization of Entanglement Swapping

We generalize the procedure of entanglement swapping to obtain a scheme for manipulating entanglement in multiparticle systems. We describe how this scheme allows to establish multiparticle entanglement between particles belonging to distant users in a communication network through a prior distribution of singlets followed by only local measurements. We show that this scheme can be regarded as a method of generating entangled states of many particles and compare it with existing schemes using simple quantum computational networks. We highlight the practical advantages of using a series of entanglement swappings during the distribution of entangled particles between two parties. Applications of multiparticle entangled states in cryptographic conferencing and in reading messages from more than one source through a single measurement are also described.

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