We investigate the entanglement dynamics of two initially entangled atoms each interacting with a thermal field. We show that the two entangled atoms become completely disentangled in a finite time and that the lost information cannot return to the atomic system when the mean photon number of the thermal field exceeds a critical value （3.3584）, even though the whole system is lossless. Then we study how the detuning between the atomic transition frequency and the field frequency and the disparity between two coupling rates would affect the evolution of the entanglement of the atomic system.
The quantum swap gate is one of the most useful gates for quantum computation. Two-qubit entanglement and a controlled-NOT quantum gate in a neutral Rydberg atom system have been achieved in recent experiments. It is therefore very interesting to propose a scheme here for swapping a quantum state between two trapped neutral atoms via the Rydberg blockade mechanism. The atoms interact with a sequence of laser pulses without individual addressing. The errors of the swap gate due to imprecision of pulse length, finite Rydberg interaction, and atomic spontaneous emission are discussed.
We propose a scheme for implementation of a universal set of quantum logic gates in decoherence-free subspace with atoms trapped in distant cavities connected by optical fibers.The selective dispersive couplings between the ground states and the first-excited states of the atom-cavity-fiber system produce a state-dependent Stark shift,which can be used to implement nonlocal phase gates between two logic qubits.The single-logic-qubit quantum gates are achieved by the local two-atom collision and the Stark shift of a single atom.During all the logic operations,the logic qubits remain in decoherence-free subspace and thus the operation is immune to collective dephasing.
We propose a scheme for the direct measurement of Wigner function in two-mode cavity QED. The atoms are sent to resonantly interact with two orthogonally polarized cavity modes in the presence of strong classical field. The probability of measuring the atom in the ground state directly gives the useful information of the cavity field. This method can be used for quantum non-demolition measurement of the photon number.
