Jun-Gang Li

Feed-forward control for quantum state protection against decoherence

We propose a novel scheme of feed-forward control and its reversal for protecting quantum state against decoherence. Before the noise channel our pre-weak measurement and feed-forward are just to change the protected state into the state almost immune to the noise channel, and after the channel our reversed operations and post-weak measurements are just to restore the protected state. Unlike most previous state protection schemes, ours only concerns the noise channel and does not care about the protected state. We show that our scheme can effectively protect unknown states, nonorthogonal states and entangled states against amplitude damping noise. Our scheme has dramatic merits of protecting quantum states against heavy amplitude damping noise, and can perfectly protect some specific nonorthogonal states in an almost deterministic way, which might be found some applications in current quantum communication technology. And it is most important that our scheme is experimentally available with current technology.

Controlling entanglement between two separated atoms by quantum-jump-based feedback

We consider a model consisting of two (two-level) atoms which are placed in two separated heavily damped cavities respectively. We show that the quantum-jump-based feedback based on joint measurement can be used to generate a steady entangled state between two atoms against decoherence. We analyse the effects of general local control Hamiltonians in the performance of entanglement production and show that by choosing a proper control Hamiltonian the steady maximal entanglement between two separated atoms can be protected.

Measurement-based direct quantum feedback control in an open quantum system

We consider a general quantum system interacting with a bath and derive a master equation in the Lindblad form describing the evolution of the whole quantum system subjected to a measurement-based direct quantum feedback control (MDFC). As an example, we consider a qubit coupled with a dephasing environment under the MDFC. We show that for any given pure target state we can always find the corresponding MDFC scheme which can effectively drive any initial state into this target state. And by using appropriate MDFC scheme with weak measurement we can stabilize a single qubit initially prepared in one of two nonorthogonal states against dephasing noise. Furthermore, we can effectively protect a kind of known mixed states composed of two nonorthogonal states by using the corresponding MDFC scheme.

Influence of dissipation on the entanglement of N two-level atoms located in one cavity or N cavities

We investigate the influence of dissipation on the entanglement among N identical two-level atoms. We analyse the situation of N two-level atoms in a dispersive cavity or in N dispersive cavities, both in W-like and in GHZ states for N atoms. By considering the Jaynes–Cummings model in the dispersive regime, and a master equation formalism, we compute the time evolution of the entanglement of the atoms, in a variety of situations. We find that, depending on whether the atoms are located in one or N cavities, and on their initial entangled state, the subsequent dynamics will be very different, specifically, exponential decay to coherent oscillations, exponential decay to steady values, or collapse and revival.

Dynamical behaviour of the entanglement between two spatially separated atoms under the influence of dissipation

We consider two two-level atoms, which are located in two independent dissipative cavities. The two atoms are initially prepared in the singlet state. We investigate the influence of dissipation on the entanglement between the two atoms. In the case of resonance the degree of the entanglement can fall abruptly to zero, which is the so-called sudden death of entanglement. It is noted that when two atoms are in a common environment, the singlet state is a decoherence-free state. When the dispersive limit is fulfilled, the degree of entanglement between the two atoms is oscillating at first, then it arrives at a steady value, which increases with the increase of the damping constant κ; when both fields are initially in the vacuum state, the entanglement between the two atoms will not decay.

Discriminating two nonorthogonal states against a noise channel by feed-forward control

We propose a scheme by using the feed-forward control (FFC) to realize a better effect of discrimination of two nonorthogonal states after passing a noise channel based on the minimum-error (ME) discrimination. We show that the application of our scheme can highly improve the effect of discrimination compared with the ME discrimination without the FFC for any pair of nonorthogonal states and any degree of amplitude damping. Especially, the effect of our optimal discrimination can reach that of the two initial nonorthogonal pure states in the presence of the noise channel in a deterministic way for equal a priori probabilities or even be better than that in a probabilistic way for unequal a priori probabilities.

Protecting entangled states of two ions by engineering reservoir

We present a proposal for realizing local decoherence-free evolution of given entangled states of two two-level (TL) ions. For two TL ions coupled to a single heavily damped cavity, we can use an engineering reservoir scheme to obtain a decoherence-free subspace which can be nonadiabatically controlled by the system and reservoir parameters. Then the local decoherence-free evolution of the entangled states is achieved. And we also discuss the relation between the geometric phases and the entanglement of the two ions under the nonadiabatic coherent evolution.