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Quantum dense coding in a two-spin squeezing model under intrinsic decoherence with different initial states (Werner state and Bell state) is investigated. It shows that dense coding capacity χ oscillates with time and finally reaches different stable values. χ can be enhanced by decreasing the magnetic field Ω and the intrinsic decoherence γ or increasing the squeezing interaction μ, moreover, one can obtain a valid dense coding capacity (χ satisfies χ > 1) by modulating these parameters. The stable value of χ reveals that the decoherence cannot entirely destroy the dense coding capacity. In addition, decreasing Ω or increasing μ can not only enhance the stable value of χ but also impair the effects of decoherence. As the initial state is the Werner state, the purity r of initial state plays a key role in adjusting the value of dense coding capacity, χ can be significantly increased by improving the purity of initial state. For the initial state is Bell state, the large spin squeezing interaction compared with the magnetic field guarantees the optimal dense coding. One cannot always achieve a valid dense coding capacity for the Werner state, while for the Bell state, the dense coding capacity χ remains stuck at the range of greater than 1.

By taking into account the quantum erasing effect(QEE), the quantum discord (QD) behavior of a two-qubit system with different initial states are investigated in detail. We find that the quantum correlation can be saved under a scheme of two spatially separated atoms, each located in a leaky cavity through the quantum erasing method. It is shown that QEE can weaken the effects of decoherence, and preserve the maximum information of the coherent item. No matter whether the two atoms are in the mixted or pure state, one can robusty save their initial quantum correlation even the number of erasing events is finite. If one limit the erasing events N → ∞, the QEE can be used to protect the initial quantum correlation independently of the state in which it is stored, the values of QD is always nearly equal to the initial QD values, and it is nearly independent of the decoherence, which imply us more encourage strategy for protecting the quantum correlation properties in some quantum systems.

By taking into account the nonuniform magnetic field, quantum correlation behaviors measured by concurrence and measurement-induced disturbance (MID) about a two-qubit anisotropic Heisenberg XYZ model are investigated in detail. We mainly concentrate on the differences between the entanglement and MID with the changes of different self and external control parameters. It is found that the ground state of entanglement exists the revival phenomenon, while this revival phenomenon is not included in MID. This difference is also appeared in the case of the finite temperature. Moreover, we give out the reason why the ground state entanglement and MID can behave very differently, which the former occurs the revival phenomenon whereas the latter does not. Through studying the effects about different parameters on C and MID, it presents that their magnitudes can be evidently enhanced by properly tuning B, b or adjusting the temperature. It also shows the situation which the entanglement is symmetrical with J z while MID is monotonically decreased from one constant value.

Quantum correlation dynamics between two identical and spatially separated atoms in free space is investigated by the use of concurrence C and quantum discord (QD). The behaviors of QD differs in many unexpected ways from the entanglement in this system. Firstly, it shows the situations which the concurrence and QD can behave very differently with a “sudden birth” phenomenon of the former but not of the latter, and QD is only oscillating decays with time and the interqubit distance. We also verify the cases which QD is always greater than the concurrence and the region where the concurrence is vanished but with nonzero values for QD. Meanwhile an unexpected situation which the concurrence is greater than QD under the initial state |eg〉 is analyzed. It is revealed that the quantum correlation based only on QD is expected to be more robust than entanglement which is not suitable for all the initial states under the decoherence environment. Then, by introducing the incoherent pumping, we also study the different properties of the steady-state entanglement and QD about this atomic subsystem. It is shown that the incoherent pumping can overcome the decay of the atoms and the influences about the interqubit distance r 12/λ on the steady-state correlation can make the decay of the concurrence obviously quicker than QD, the life of the steady-state QD is evidently larger than the steady-state entanglement.

By taking into account the intrinsic decoherence and the nonuniform magnetic field, quantum discord (QD) and steady quantum discord (SQD) behavior of a two-qubit anisotropic Heisenberg XYZ chain with different initial states are investigated. We find that properly tuning the external and self parameters not only can improve the quantum correlation and steady quantum correlation but also can weaken the effects of decoherence such as increasing anisotropic parameter Δ, decreasing B or b. When t is infinity, the SQD value and the physical about the SQD phenomenon are studied in detail, the SQD value is strongly dependent on the external and self parameters, which is increased evidently by increasing anisotropic parameter and decreasing nonuniform field. Through analyzing the physical about SQD phenomenon, the conditions about the existence of SQD phenomenon are analyzed with different initial states. These investigations can imply us more control parameters on quantum correlation and steady quantum correlation in solid state systems.

We report possibility of generating entanglement and steady entanglement between two identical atoms in free space with a very natural way when their spatial separation is on the order of wavelength or less. We show a dynamical creation of entanglement and steady entanglement due to the radiative coupling with different separable initial atomic states and study the entanglement properties about this atomic subsystem. Not only the creation of steady state entanglement is decided by the initial atomic states, but also the magnitude of the entanglement and the steady state entanglement are found to be strongly dependent on the initial states. We derive a master equation for the atomic subspace and solve it analytically to show how the spontaneous emission from the two atoms system induces entanglement and steady entanglement, the crossing coupling terms in master equation can enhance the entanglement value.

We report the transfer fidelities of two-qubit pure state via a two-qubit Heisenberg XYZ spin model under a nonuniform magnetic field. It shown us that not only the average fidelity can be enhanced evidently but also the ideal fidelity region can be broadened by introducing the interaction of z component of two neighboring spins Jz. Decreasing the anisotropy parameter γ also can improve Fa and result in ideal fidelity. Our study on the average fidelity of this quantum channel system also shows that for any finite value of temperature T we can obtain the ideal average fidelity by improving the inhomogeneous magnetic field b. Fa is infinitely close to the maximum value of classical communication 2/3 with increasing b. While increasing the uniform field B can not do this, Fa are always inferior to 2/3 for enough larger B.

We propose efficient schemes of direct concurrence measurement for two-qubit spin and photon-polarization entangled states via the interaction between single-photon pulses and nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond embedded in optical microcavities. For different entangled-state types, diversified quantum devices and operations are designed accordingly. The initial unknown entangled states are possessed by two spatially separated participants and nonlocal spin (polarization) entanglement can be measured with the aid of detection probabilities of photon (NV center) states. This non-demolition entanglement measurement manner makes initial entangled particle-pair avoid complete annihilation but evolve into corresponding maximally entangled states. Moreover, joint inter-qubit operation or global qubit readout is not required for the presented schemes and the final analyses inform favorable performance under the current parameters conditions in laboratory. The unique advantages of spin qubits assure our schemes wide potential applications in spin-based solid quantum information and computation.

By introducing the nonuniform magnetic field, we investigate the entanglement teleportation via two-qubit Heisenberg chain. We show that for ferromagnetic chain, the opposite direction magnetic field on the two-qubit chain can excite the teleported entanglement C out, while the uniform magnetic field can not do it. The effect of the uniform magnetic field B and the nonuniform magnetic field b on the threshold temperature T c is also plotted. Our study on the average fidelity of this quantum channel system shows that the magnetic field in opposite direction can result in the ideal average fidelity no matter whether the chain is ferromagnetic or antiferromagnetic.

Quantum correlation dynamics in an anisotropic Heisenberg XYZ model under decoherence is investigated by making use of concurrence C and quantum discord (QD). Firstly, we show that both the concurrence and QD exhibit oscillation with time whereas a remarkable difference between them is presented: there is an "entanglement intermittently sudden death" phenomenon in the concurrence but not in the QD, which is valid for all the initial states of this system. Also, the interval time of entanglement sudden death is found to be strongly dependent on the initial states, the inhomogeneous magnetic field b and the anisotropic parameter Δ. Then, it implies that the steady concurrence and QD can be obtained in the long-time limit, which means that the environmental decoherence cannot entirely destroy the quantum correlation, the variation of the uniform magnetic field B and the anisotropic parameter can change the magnitude of the steady concurrence and QD evidently whereas the parameter b cannot. In addition, based on the analysis of the steady concurrence and QD with t →∞, we give the reason why the magnitude of the steady concurrence and QD is so complicated with the change of the parameters B and Δ, whereas the parameter b is independent of the steady concurrence and QD.

The quantum correlation dynamics in an anisotropic Heisenberg XYZ model under decoherence are investigated with the use of concurrence C and quantum discord (QD). There is a remarkable difference between the time evolution behaviors of these two correlation measures: there is a entanglement-sudden-death phenomenon in the concurrence while there is none in QD, which is valid for all of the initial states of this system, and the interval time of the entanglement death is found to be strongly dependent on the initial states and the parameters B and Δ. With the long-time limit the steady entanglement (SC) and steady quantum discord (SQD) can be obtained. The magnitudes of SC and SQD are closely related to the parameters B and Δ, while the strength of the Dzyaloshinskii—Moriya interaction, D, has no influence. In addition, the effects of the parameters B and Δ on SC and SQD display such different and complicated features that one cannot obtain a uniform law about them, thus we give an analytical explanation of this phenomenon. Lastly, it can be noted that the value of SC is not always larger than SQD, which is strongly dependent on the parameters B and Δ.

Introducing classical fields, we can transfer entanglement completely from discrete qubits into entangled coherent state. The entanglement also can be retrieved from the continuous-variable state of the cavities to the atomic qubits. Via postselection measure, atomic entangled state and entangled coherent state can be mutual transformed fully., 5 pages, 3 fighres. accepted by J Phys B

Quantum correlations in an anisotropic Heisenberg XYZ chain is investigated by use of concurrence C and measurement-induced disturbance (MID). We show that the behaviors of the MID are remarkably different from the concurrence. Firstly, it is shown that there is a revival phenomenon in the concurrence but not in the MID, which is suitable for both the ground state case and the finite temperature case. Based on the analysis of the ground-state C and MID structures, we illustrate the reason why the ground-state MID does not show a revival phenomenon in detail. Then we explore different effects of the external and self parameters on entanglement and MID behaviors. It can be shown that the region of MID is evidently larger than the case of concurrence, and that the concurrence signals a quantum phase transition even at finite T while MID does not. Cases where the concurrence finally maintains one nonzero constant value regardless of the value of the variable B for a constant Jz, while MID decreases monotonously to zero with increasing B. We also show that if B can take a proper range of values, the concurrence decreases with the improvement of the anisotropic parameter γ, whereas an opposite effect for MID behaviors is presented.

We investigate the properties of quantum discord dynamics of a two-qubit Heisenberg XYZ system which is influenced by the environmental decoherence under an external nonuniform magnetic field. It shows that the influence of the parameters on the system heavily rely on the selection of the initial states. One point shows that the environmental decoherence cannot entirely destroy the quantum correlation, and properly controlling the parameters can inhibit the decoherence. Moreover, it presents that the inhomogeneous magnetic field cannot affect the steady quantum discord (QD), while the uniform magnetic field and the anisotropy coupling constant will change the steady QD. These investigations imply that one can obtain larger steady QD values by reasonably adjusting parameters on quantum correlation in solid state systems.

A scheme is proposed to generate multiatom entanglement among remote nodes connected by noisy channels. The noisy parameters are independent of the fidelity of the intended maximal entangled state. We show that those nonmaximal entangled states prepared in the present scheme can be used to implement quantum communication. Moreover, the scheme can be generalized to generate entanglement in N quantum nodes.

We consider a three-level cascade laser with a self-phase-locked type-II nondegenerate optical parameter oscillator via a homodyne-mediate quantum feedback. Applying the pertinent master equation, we investigate the squeezing, entanglement properties and the mean photon number produced by our system. It is found that highly squeezed and macroscopic entangled light with high intensity can be generated.

We investigate the entanglement property of a two-qubit, mixed-spin, Heisenberg system under a nonuniform magnetic field. We show that increasing b can improve the threshold temperature, and can also make the entanglement enhanced. It is very interesting to note that the joining of the nonuniform magnetic field b can not only induce the entanglement for the ferromagnetic case, but can also make the entanglement symmetrical in terms of J for a larger value of b, while the uniform field B cannot do this. We also analyze the ground-state entanglement features in detail.