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View SchemaEntangled-state cycles from conditional quantum evolution
| Authors | M. Gu, S. Parkins, H. J. Carmichael |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0602083 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0602083 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevA.73.043813 |
Abstract
A system of cascaded qubits interacting via the oneway exchange of photons is studied. While for general operating conditions the system evolves to a superposition of Bell states (a dark state) in the long-time limit, under a particular resonance condition no steady state is reached within a finite time. We analyze the conditional quantum evolution (quantum trajectories) to characterize the asymptotic behavior under this resonance condition. A distinct bimodality is observed: for perfect qubit coupling, the system either evolves to a maximally entangled Bell state without emitting photons (the dark state), or executes a sustained entangled-state cycle - random switching between a pair of Bell states while emitting a continuous photon stream; for imperfect coupling, two entangled-state cycles coexist, between which a random selection is made from one quantum trajectory to another.
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