Generation of entangled coherent states via cross phase modulation in a double electromagnetically induced transparency regime

Details Generation of entangled coherent states via cross phase modulation in a double electromagnetically induced transparency regime Generation of entangled coherent states via cross phase modulation in a double electromagnetically induced transparency regime

2002-07-28

arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0207160v2

Phys. Rev. A 67, 023811 (2003)

Physics

Quantum Physics

15 pages, 9 figures; extensively revised version; added Section V

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.67.023811

The generation of an entangled coherent state is one of the most important ingredients of quantum information processing using coherent states. Recently, numerous schemes to achieve this task have been proposed. In order to generate travelling-wave entangled coherent states, cross phase modulation, optimized by optical Kerr effect enhancement in a dense medium in an electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) regime, seems to be very promising. In this scenario, we propose a fully quantized model of a double-EIT scheme recently proposed [D. Petrosyan and G. Kurizki, {\sl Phys. Rev. A} {\bf 65}, 33833 (2002)]: the quantization step is performed adopting a fully Hamiltonian approach. This allows us to write effective equations of motion for two interacting quantum fields of light that show how the dynamics of one field depends on the photon-number operator of the other. The preparation of a Schr\"odinger cat state, which is a superposition of two distinct coherent states, is briefly exposed. This is based on non-linear interaction via double-EIT of two light fields (initially prepared in coherent states) and on a detection step performed using a $50:50$ beam splitter and two photodetectors. In order to show the entanglement of a generated entangled coherent state, we suggest to measure the joint quadrature variance of the field. We show that the entangled coherent states satisfy the sufficient condition for entanglement based on quadrature variance measurement. We also show how robust our scheme is against a low detection efficiency of homodyne detectors.

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