囚禁离子多体W·类纠缠态简单制备方案.docVIP

囚禁离子多体W·类纠缠态简单制备方案 　　摘 要 提出一种囚禁离子多体W类纠缠态的简单制备方案.在该方案中，N个离子被一束红边带激光同时照射，从而可以实现N体对称W态或N+1体反对称W态的一步产生.原则上，粒子数N可以任意大.另外，离子数越大，制备目标纠缠态所需要的时间就越短. 关键词 W态；囚禁离子；一步产生 Quantum entanglement is a consequence of quantumstate superposition principle applied to composite quantum systems. It not only provides possibilities to test the foundations of quantum physics， but also lies at the heart of the growing field of quantum information science[1]. Compared with bipartite entangled states， multipartite entangled states would exhibit clearer nonclassical effects and are more useful for quantum applications[23]. Thus characterizing and preparing multipartite entangled states have been attracting much attention. However， preparation of multipartite entangled states is an experimental challenge， because of the technical difficulty of manipulating individual particles. So far， tripartite GreenbergerHorneZeilinger （GHZ） state in cavity QED[4]， 10photon GHZ state[5]， 6photon cluster state[6]， 3photon W state[7]， and 14ion GHZ state[8] have been observed. Wtype entangled state is a special type of multipartite entangled state[9]， and has widespread applications in quantum information processing （see， e.g.， Refs. [1014]）. Thus， generation of multiparticle Wtype states has been paid much attention. 湖南师范大学自然科学学报 第36卷第3期 汪新文等：囚禁离子多体W类纠缠态的简单制备方案 Not long before， the Innsbruck group has experimentally prepared 40Ca+ionic 8qubit W state[15]， with S1/2 （mj=1/2） acting as the lower level and D5/2 （mj=-1/2） acting as the upper level. In the experiment， they individually derived each of the ions with sequential blue sideband pulses， and created a W state step by step with one motional quantum as memory. In this paper， we propose an alternative scheme to generate multipartite entanglement of the W type in the iontrap system， which can be regarded as an improvement on that of Ref.[15]. In the scheme， an Nion W state can be created in one step by driving simultaneously the ions with one red si