Abstract

Some nonlinear radiations such as superfluorescence can be understood as cooperative effects between atoms. We regard cooperative radiations as a manifested effect secondary to the intrinsic synchronization among the two-level atoms and propose the entanglement measure, concurrence, as a time-resolved measure of synchronization. Modeled on two cavity-coupled qubits, the evolved concurrence monotonically increases to a saturated level. The finite duration required for the rising to saturation coincides with the time delay characteristic to the initiation of superfluorescence, showing the role of synchronization in establishing the cooperation among the qubits. We verify concurrence to be a good measure of synchronization by comparing it with asynchronicity computed from the difference between the density matrices of the qubits. We find that the feature of time delay agrees in both measures and is determined by the coupling regimes of the cavity-qubit interaction. Specifically, synchronization is impossible in the weak coupling regime.

Details

Title
Synchronization of two cavity-coupled qubits measured by entanglement
Author
Tian-tian, Huan 1 ; Zhou Ri-gui 2 ; Hou, Ian 3 

 University of Macau, Institute of Applied Physics and Materials Engineering, Macau, China 
 Shanghai Maritime University, College of Information Engineering, Shanghai, China (GRID:grid.412518.b) (ISNI:0000 0001 0008 0619) 
 University of Macau, Institute of Applied Physics and Materials Engineering, Macau, China (GRID:grid.412518.b); Zhuhai UM Science & Technology Research Institute, Zhuhai, China (GRID:grid.412518.b) 
Publication year
2020
Publication date
2020
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group
e-ISSN
20452322
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2429349028
Copyright
© The Author(s) 2020. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.