Yang Wan-Li

Tunable thermal entanglement in an effective spin-star system using coupled microcavities

We theoretically explore the possibility of realizing controllable thermal entanglement of effective spins in a four-qubit anisotropic Heisenberg XXZ coupling spin-star system constructed by coupled microcavities. We analyse the dependence of thermal entanglement in this system on temperature, inhomogeneity of the magnetic field, and anisotropy, which can be readily tuned via the external laser fields. The peculiar characteristic and the full controllability of the thermal entanglement are demonstrated to be useful for quantum information processing.

Implementation of a many-qubit Grover search by cavity QED

We explore the possibility of an N-qubit (N > 3) Grover search in cavity QED, based on a fast operation of an N-qubit controlled phase-flip with atoms in resonance with the cavity mode. We demonstrate both analytically and numerically that our scheme can be achieved efficiently to find a marked state with high fidelity and high success probability. As an example, a ten-qubit Grover search is simulated specifically under the discussion of experimental feasibility and challenge. We argue that our scheme is applicable to the case involving an arbitrary number of qubits. As cavity decay is involved in our quantum trajectory treatment, we can analytically understand the implementation of a Grover search subject to dissipation, which will be very helpful for relevant experiments.

Scheme for N-Qubit Toffoli Gate by Transport of Trapped Ultracold Ions

We propose a potentially practical scheme for implementing an n-qubit Toffoli gate by elaborately controlling the transport of ultracold ions through stationary laser beams. Conditioned on the uniform ionic transport velocity, the n-qubit Toffoli gate can be realized with high fidelity and high successful probability under current experimental conditions,which depends on a single resonant interaction with n trapped ions and has constant implementation time with the increase of qubits. We show that the increase of the ion number can improve the fidelity and the successful probability of the Toffoli gate.

Multi-ion Mach-Zehnder interferometer with artificial nonlinear interactions

We propose a method to implement a Mach-Zehnder interferometry based upon a string of trapped ions with artificial nonlinear interactions. By manipulating the coupling strength between two involved internal states of the ions, we could achieve the beam splitting/recombination with NOON states. Using current techniques for manipulating trapped ions, we discuss the experimental feasibility of our scheme and analyze some undesired uncertainty under realistic experimental environment.Y. M. Hu, W. L. Yang, X. Xiao, M. Feng1,∗ and C. Lee4† State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Wuhan 430071, China Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China College of Physics and Information Science, Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081, China and State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, School of Physics and Engineering, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China

No Spin-Localization Phase Transition in the Spin-Boson Model without Local Field

Tao Liu1,2,∗ Mang Feng2,† Lei Li, Wanli Yang, and Kelin Wang 1 The School of Science, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang 621010, China 2 State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Wuhan, 430071, China 3 The Department of Modern Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, ChinaWe explore the spin-boson model in a special case, i.e., with zero local field. In contrast to previous studies, we find no possibility for quantum phase transition (QPT) happening between the localized and delocalized phases, and the behavior of the model can be fully characterized by the even or odd parity as well as the parity breaking, instead of the QPT, owned by the ground state of the system. The parity breaking mentioned in our case is completely different from the spontaneously broken symmetry relevant to the conventionally defined QPT in previous studies. Our analytical treatment about the eigensolution of the ground state of the model presents for the first time a rigorous proof of no-degeneracy for the ground state of the model, which is independent of the bath type, the degrees of freedom of the bath and the calculation precision. We argue that the QPT mentioned previously appears due to incorrect employment of the ground state of the model and/or unreasonable treatment of the infrared divergence existing in the spectral functions for Ohmic and sub-Ohmic dissipations.

Controlled Phase Flip Gate and Its Application in Low-Q Cavities by Single-Photon Input-Output Process

By employing an auxiliary cavity, we investigate the possibility to implement the conditional phase flip (CPF) gate on two atoms confined in separate low-Q cavities by single-photon input-output process, based on the Faraday rotation. This indicates a universal quantum computing available with sophisticated cavity QED techniques. As examples, we carry out generation of cluster states of distant atomic qubits and accomplish a teleportation based on Bell-state measurement in low-Q cavities.