Entanglement of two qubits mediated by a localized surface plasmon

We investigate relaxation dynamics in the system of two identical quantum dipole emitters (QDEs) located near a metal nanoparticle (MNP) exhibiting a dipolar localized surface plasmon (LSP) resonance at the frequency of the QDE radiative transition. Considering one QDE to be brought into an opticall...

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Published in:Physical review. B, Condensed matter and materials physics Condensed matter and materials physics, 2015-07, Vol.92 (4), Article 045410
Main Authors: Nerkararyan, Khachatur V., Bozhevolnyi, Sergey I.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Condensed matter
Dynamical systems
Dynamics
Entanglement
Excitation
Nanostructure
Plasmons
Qubits (quantum computing)
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Summary:We investigate relaxation dynamics in the system of two identical quantum dipole emitters (QDEs) located near a metal nanoparticle (MNP) exhibiting a dipolar localized surface plasmon (LSP) resonance at the frequency of the QDE radiative transition. Considering one QDE to be brought into an optically active excited state and weakly coupled to the resonant LSP, we show that a stable superposition state of two QDEs is formed during the transition time, which is much shorter than the QDE spontaneous decay time and determined by the efficiency of resonant interaction between the QDEs and induced LSP. It is elucidated that the superposition state is established as a result of redistribution of the energy of the initially excited QDE so that the corresponding steady-state QDE fields induced at the MNP site cancel each other. The degree of steady-state entanglement characterized by the concurrence is found dependent only on the ratio of distances between the QDEs and the MNP, reaching its maximum value of ~0.65, when the separation between the MNP and the initially excited QDE is larger by ~20% than the distance from the other QDE to the MNP.
ISSN:1098-0121
1550-235X
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevB.92.045410