W-State Generation and Manipulation for Ion-Trap-Based Quantum-Information Processing

We propose an ion-trap scheme for one-step generation of a special configuration of W-class state which has recently been shown to be better than canonical W states for several quantum-information processing tasks. We also present a method for one-step realization of a nontrivial collective operation which can transform a canonical W state into a fully separable state. Such a transformation plays a key role in recently proposed quantum protocols. The operation speed in our schemes increases with the number of qubits. This is contrary to usual entanglement generation and quantum manipulation schemes which take more and more time with the increase of the number of qubits.

Quantum photonic network on chip

We provide an overview of quantum photonic network on chip. We begin from the discussion of the pros and cons of several material platforms for engineering quantum photonic chips. Then we introduce and analyze the basic building blocks and functional units of quantum photonic integrated circuits. In the main part of this review, we focus on the generation and manipulation of quantum states of light on chip and are particularly interested in some applications of advanced integrated circuits with different functionalities for quantum information processing, including quantum communication, quantum computing, and quantum simulation. We emphasize that developing fully integrated quantum photonic chip which contains sources of quantum light, integrate circuits, modulators, quantum storage, and detectors are promising approaches for future quantum photonic technologies. Recent achievements in the large scale photonic chips for linear optical computing are also included. Finally, we illustrate the challenges toward high performance quantum information processing devices and conclude with promising perspectives in this field.

Mesoscopic entangled coherent states implemented with a circuit quantum electrodynamics system

We show a scheme to generate entangled coherent states in a circuit quantum electrodynamics system, which con- sists of a nanomechanical resonator, a superconducting Cooper-pair box （CPB）, and a superconducting transmission line resonator. In the system, the CPB plays the role of a nonlinear medium and can be conveniently controlled by a gate volt- age including direct-current and alternating-current components. The scheme provides a powerful tool for preparing the multipartite mesoscopic entangled coherent states.

Spin-orbit hybrid entanglement quantum key distribution scheme

We propose a novel quantum key distribution scheme by using the SAM-OAM hybrid entangled state as the physical resource.To obtain this state,the polarization entangled photon pairs are created by the spontaneous parametric down conversion process,and then,the q-plate acts as a SAM-to-OAM transverter to transform the polarization entangled pairs into the hybrid entangled pattern,which opens the possibility to exploit the features of the higher-dimensional space of OAM state to encode information.In the manipulation and encoding process,Alice performs the SAM measurement by modulating the polarization stateπ lθx on one photon,whereas Bob modulates the OAM sector state lx' on the other photon to encode his key elements using the designed holograms which is implemented by the computer-controlled SLM.With coincidence measurement,Alice could extract the key information.It is showed that N-based keys can be encoded with each pair of entangled photon,and this scheme is robust against Eve’s individual attack.Also,the MUBs are not used.Alice and Bob do not need the classical communication for the key recovery.