Entanglement of coherent superposition of photon-subtraction squeezed vacuum

Abstract

A new kind of non-Gaussian quantum state is introduced by applying nonlocal coherent superposition (τa + sb)^m of photon subtraction to two single-mode squeezed vacuum states, and the properties of entanglement are investigated according to the degree of entanglement and the average fidelity of quantum teleportation. The state can be seen as a single-variable Hermitian polynomial excited squeezed vacuum state, and its normalization factor is related to the Legendre polynomial. It is shown that, for τ=s, the maximum fidelity can be achieved, even over the classical limit (1/2), only for evenorder operation m and equivalent squeezing parameters in a certain region. However, the maximum entanglement can be achieved for squeezing parameters with a π phase difference. These indicate that the optimal realizations of fidelity and entanglement could be different from one another. In addition, the parameter τ/s has an obvious effect on entanglement and fidelity.

Keywords

non-Gaussian operation / quantum entanglement / squeezed state

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