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Title: Generation of entanglement and squeezing in the system of two ions trapped in a cavity

Journal Article · · Physical Review. A
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  1. Department of Physics, Huazhong Normal University, Wuhan 430079 (China)

The dynamical behavior of the entanglement and the squeezing in the system of two ions trapped in a lossy optical cavity is discussed, in which the vibrational mode of the first ion is coupled to the cavity field via a linear-mixing interaction and the vibrational mode of the second ion is coupled to the cavity field via an effective parametric interaction, respectively. It is found that when the effective strength r{sub 1} of the coupling between the first ion and the cavity field is stronger than the strength r{sub 2} of the coupling between the second ion and the cavity field, the motional state of the two ions develops into a robust two-mode mixed Gaussian entangled state and the two-mode squeezing of phonons appears. But the entanglement between the cavity mode and the vibrational mode of the second ion can only happen periodically in a small time range. When r{sub 1}<r{sub 2}, only the entanglement between the two vibrational modes appears but the two-mode squeezing does not exist. And the entanglement between the cavity mode and the motional mode of the second ion can also take place in a small time range.

OSTI ID:
20717978
Journal Information:
Physical Review. A, Vol. 71, Issue 6; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.71.063817; (c) 2005 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 1050-2947
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English