Transfer of entangled state,entanglement swapping and quantum information processing via the Rydberg blockade

We provide a scheme with which the transfer of the entangled state and the entanglement swapping can be realized in a system of neutral atoms via the Rydberg blockade. Our idea can be extended to teleport an unknown atomic state. According to the latest theoretical research of the Rydberg excitation and experimental reports of the Rydberg blockade effect in quantum information processing, we discuss the experimental feasibility of our scheme.

Experimental demonstration of switching entangled photons based on the Rydberg blockade effect

The long-range interaction between Rydberg-excited atoms endows a medium with large optical nonlinearity.Here,we demonstrate an optical switch to operate on a single photon from an entangled photon pair under a Rydberg electromagnetically induced transparency configuration.With the presence of the Rydberg blockade effect,we switch on a gate field to make the atomic medium nontransparent thereby absorbing the single photon emitted from another atomic ensemble via the spontaneous fourwave mixing process.In contrast to the case without a gate field,more than 50%of the photons sent to the switch are blocked,and finally achieve an effective single-photon switch.There are on average 1-2 gate photons per effective blockade sphere in one gate pulse.This switching effect on a single entangled photon depends on the principal quantum number and the photon number of the gate field.Our experimental progress is significant in the quantum information process especially in controlling the interaction between Rydberg atoms and entangled photon pairs.

Unconventional quantum gate based on Rydberg blockade mechanism

We propose a scheme for realizing an unconventional three-qubit controlled-phase gate via the Rydberg blockade mechanism.The qubit is encoded by atomic ensembles that are trapped in optical traps and fixed on an atom chip.Because of the collective nature of the encoding and the Rydberg blockade mechanism,the scheme do not require separate addressing of individual atoms.The time needed for the gate operation is much shorter than that in a similar scheme.In addition,we show the gate can be used as a basic tool for effective generation of large-scale 2D cluster states.

Singlet-State Preparation for Three Λ-type Atoms with Rydberg Blockade Mechanism

A proposal for the generation of singlet states of three A-type Rydberg atoms is presented via the interaction between a separate Rydberg state and an EPR pair. Different from previous schemes, we do not need to couple ground states by using microwave lights but to set appropriate frequency detuning between lasers and two atomic transitions between ground states and Rydberg levels to eliminate the degenerate of the two ground states, making the present protocol more easily in experiment. Moreover, a series of numerical simulations are made to show the feasibility.

Quantum state swap for two trapped Rydberg atoms

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.