Entanglement has been used in a variety of applications that include quantum teleportation, satellite quantum communication, submarine quantum communication, quantum internet, quantum error correction, and quantum cryptography. Various configurations exist that can initiate entanglement, including the use of a beam splitter, two trapped ions entanglement, and entanglement of two microwave radiations. In the entanglement of microwave and optical fields, several systems exist but have limitations. This includes a sensitivity of a mechanical resonator to thermal noise. In other approaches, a whispering gallery mode resonator filled with electro-optical material may be used. In this approach, an optical field is coupled to the whispering gallery resonator while a microwave field drives the resonator. However, there are limitations that include that the free spectral range of the whispering resonator must match the microwave frequency which can also limit tunability. Thus, there is no effective technique that achieve a wide band entanglement of microwave and optical fields with a large tunability
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Systems, devices, and/or methods described herein may provide for microwave and optical entanglement using a capacitor loaded with graphene plasmonic waveguide. In embodiments, a quantum microwave signal of a particular frequency may drive a capacitor (e.g., an electrical capacitor) while an optical field (e.g., an optical pump) of a particular frequency is launched to the graphene waveguide in a surface plasmon polariton (i.e., SPP) mode. In embodiments, the two fields (microwave and optical) may interact based on electrically modulating a graphene optical conductivity. As such, upper and lower SPP sideband modes (e.g., ω2=ω1+ωm and ω3=ω1−ωm) are generated. In embodiments, the microwave signal and the lower SPP sideband are entangled based on a particular pump intensity.
As such, a quantum mechanics model may be generated to determine fields evolution. In embodiments, the entanglement of the microwave and optical fields may be evaluated based on waveguide length, pump intensity, and microwave frequency. In embodiments, the two fields (microwave and optical) may be entangled over a vast microwave frequency range. Additionally, a quantity of entangled photons are also generated at the lower SPP sideband. Thus, the systems and methods described herein provides a tunable mechanism for microwave-optical entanglement within a more efficient quantum system.
Accordingly, microwave and optical fields entanglement may be provided based on electrical capacitor loaded with graphene plasmonic waveguide. In embodiments, the microwave signal may drives parallel plates of the capacitor, with the garphene waveguide supporting a surface plasmon polariton (i.e., SPP) mode. The microwave voltage and the SPP mode interact via electrically modifying the graphene optical conductivity. In embodiments, a driving microwave signal and a lower sideband are entangled for a particular pump intensity |A1|2. In embodiments, the entanglement may be analyzed and changed based on different parameters including the graphene waveguide length, the microwave frequency, the microwave number of photons and the pump intensity. Thus, entanglement occurs, and can be tunable, over a larger frequency range based on particular pump intensities.
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−iω
t
+c.c. (1)
In embodiments, a transverse magnetic (i.e., TM) surface plasmon polariton (SPP) mode is coupled to the graphene waveguide. In embodiments, the SPP mode is described by its associated electrical (and magnetic) fields, given by equations (2) and (3):
=()(x(x)ēx+(x)ēz)e−i(ωt−βz)+c.c. (2)
=()y(x){right arrow over (e)}ye−i(ωt−β)+c.c. (3)
In embodiments, U(z) is a complex amplitude, Dx(x)={(βi/ωεε0)eαx for x<0; (βi/ωεε0)e−αx for x>0}, Dz (x)={(αi/ωεε0)eαx for x<0; (αi/ωεε0)e−αx for x>0}, and Dy(x)={eαx for x<0; e−αx for x>0} are special distributions of the SPP mode, α=(β2−εk2)1/2 and k0=ω/c are the free space propagation constant, and c is the speed of the light in the vacuum. In embodiments, a dispersion relation of the SPP mode is given by equation (4):
β=k0(1−(2/Z0σs)2)1/2 (4)
In embodiments, Z0=377Ω is a free space impedance and σs is the graphene conductivity. In embodiments, for an input SPP mode of frequency Wi and a driving microwave voltage of frequency ωm, an upper and lower SPP sidebands are generated at frequencies ω2=ω1+ωm and ω3=ω1−ωm based on graphene conductivity modulation. In embodiments, associated electric fields with these particular SPP modes are given by
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j
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j()(xj(x){right arrow over (e)}x+j(x))e−i(ω
In embodiments, j includes {1,2,3}. In embodiments, upon implementing a perturbation approach, the effective propagation constant of the SPP modes can be approximated by βj=β′j+Vβ″e−iωmt+c.c, and thus, the corresponding effective permittivity of the SPP modes is given by equation (5):
εeffj=ε′effj+Vε″effje−iω
where
is a solution of the dispersion related to equation (4), and
is the perturbed graphene conductivity term. In embodiments, the SPP modes are contained between two plates with negligible overlapping with the electrodes. In embodiments, the negligible overlapping can be achieved by separating the distance between two electrodes d larger than 1/a. For example, if d=10/α, then 99.99% of the SPP mode is contained within the gap between two parallel plates.
In embodiments, interacting fields can be quantized by the following relations in equation (6):
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j and {circumflex over (b)}
are annihilation operators of the jth optical and microwave fields, respectively. In embodiments, the SPP volume is:
V
L=r∫−∞→∞(|xj|2+|j|2)∂x
and a unit-less parameter is:
which is introduced to match the expression of the free Hamiltonian of the SPP modes to the expression of the free Hamiltonian of the corresponding unguided fields. Accordingly, the spatial distribution of the SPP modes is completely included in the conversion rates g2 and g3. In embodiments, the quantum Hamiltonian is given by equation (7):
=0+1 (7)
where equation (8) is:
with h.c. is the Hermitian conjugate, and g2 and g3 are the conversion rates given by equations (9) and (10):
In embodiments, the SPP pump at frequency Wi is intensive and treated classically. Thus, substituting a quantum Hamiltonian expression of equation (7) into Heisenberg equations of motion, that is:
and using the rotation approximation:
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j
=Ô
j
e
−iω
t
the following equations of motions (equations (11), (12), and (13)) are generated:
In embodiments, the optical delay coefficient is given by:
Γj=2vgIm(β′)
and the Γm represents microwave decay coefficient. In embodiments, the group velocity is:
In embodiments, the pump field amplitude A1 is considered with Π/2 phase (i.e., A1=AeiΠ/2=iA), and N2 and Nm are quantum Langevin noise operators. In embodiments, the dissipation is characterized by the time decay rates, included in equations (11) and (13). Thus, based on a fluctuation—dissipation theorem, the Langevin forces are included. In embodiments, the quantum coupled equations of motion presented above describe an evolution of the SPP modes and the driving microwave signal.
In embodiments, no steady state is considered as the interaction is carried out while the propagating SPP modes are coupled to the optical pump. Thus, the time rates of the SPP averages are non-zero, where:
To evaluate the entanglement while fulfilling the non-zero requirement, the entanglement between the following factors is evaluated using the Duan's criterion in (14):
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In embodiments, equation (14) is as follows:
and that entanglement exists whenever the determinant is negative (Λ<0). In embodiments, average rate equations (equations (15), (16), and (17)) are obtained by using equations (11), (12), and (13):
Next, the regression method is used to model the rate equations of the following averages:
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,
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and B†B
In embodiments, equations (15), (16), and (17) are solved to obtain values to evaluate a condition in equation (14) at specific time interval t=L/vg. In embodiments, microwave and optical operators are considered uncorrelated at t=0, and thus:
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j
†
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|t=0={circumflex over (B)}†{circumflex over (B)}|t=0Âj†Âj|t=0
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j
{circumflex over (B)}
|
t=0
=
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†
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|
t=0
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j
†
Â
j
|t=0
In embodiments, the number of microwave photons at t=0, are as follows:
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|t=0=0
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Based on the preceding examples and equations, an electrical capacitor is considered with air filling material. In embodiments, a graphene doping concentration is n0=1018 m−3, the pump frequency is ω1/2Π=193 THz and the temperature is T=3 mK. In embodiments, the SPP propagation constant β (and the decay time constant Γ are shown in
In embodiments, width W=1 μm and the length L is considered with different values. As shown in
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t=0+104
And, the three different microwave frequencies (ωm/2Π) are considered—5 GHz, 15 GHz, and 45 GHz. Thus, the fields are entangled for different waveguide lengths. In embodiments, the entanglement is stronger for a larger microwave frequency. In embodiments, the entanglement strength increases against the waveguide length until losses begin to take over. In
In
In
For example, for |A1|2=1.9×107, the entanglement strength is maximal at the optimum microwave frequency ωm/2Π=86 GHz and disentanglement is reached at ωm/2Π=100 GHz. However, for |A1|2=2.4×107, the entanglement optimum frequency is ωm/2Π=76 GHz and disentanglement is reached at ωm/2Π=96 GHz. In these non-limiting examples, the entanglement at ωm/2Π=76 for |A1|2=2.4×107 is stronger than that at ωm/2Π=86 for |A1|2=1.9×107.
Based on the above example formulas and charts, microwave and optical fields entanglement based on electrical capacitor loaded with graphene plasmonic waveguide are analyzed for optimal values. In embodiments, a microwave voltage is applied to the capacitor while a graphene waveguide is subjected to an optical surface plasmon polariton (i.e., SPP) input. Accordingly, SPP sidebands are generated at the expense of the input SPP pump and the driving microwave signal. In embodiments, a quantum mechanics model is generated to describe the fields interactions and derived motion equations indicates entanglement between the microwave and the lower SPP sideband.
In embodiments, Duan's criterion is used to investigate the entanglement. In embodiments, the equations needed to evaluate the Duan's determinant are derived from the motion equation using the quantum regression theorem. Thus, the microwave signal and the lower SPP sideband are entangled over a vast microwave frequency. In embodiments, the entanglement is evaluated against the waveguide length. Limited by losses, it is observed that an optimum waveguide length at which the entanglement strength (and number of photons at the lower side band) is maximized. Additionally, the entanglement versus the SPP pump intensity takes into account an optimum length. In embodiments, the entanglement is stronger for larger pump intensity. However, for intensive pump inputs and microwave frequencies greater than 50 GHz, there is an optimum pump intensity at which the entanglement is maximized and then decreases for larger intensity values until disentanglement is observed. In embodiments, the entanglement is evaluated versus the microwave number of photons. The larger the number of microwave photons, the stronger the entanglement. In addition, the entanglement is evaluated versus the microwave frequency. It is found that the entanglement is attained over a particular range with a particular pump intensity. Thus, a frequency tunable process is provided for effective microwave-optimal entanglement.
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Bus 1110 may include a path that permits communications among the components of device 1100. Processor 1120 may include one or more processors, microprocessors, or processing logic (e.g., a field programmable gate array (FPGA) or an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC)) that interprets and executes instructions. Memory 1130 may include any type of dynamic storage device that stores information and instructions, for execution by processor 1120, and/or any type of non-volatile storage device that stores information for use by processor 1120. Input component 1140 may include a mechanism that permits a user to input information to device 1100, such as a keyboard, a keypad, a button, a switch, voice command, etc. Output component 1150 may include a mechanism that outputs information to the user, such as a display, a speaker, one or more light emitting diodes (LEDs), etc.
Communications interface 1160 may include any transceiver-like mechanism that enables device 1100 to communicate with other devices and/or systems. For example, communications interface 1160 may include an Ethernet interface, an optical interface, a coaxial interface, a wireless interface, or the like.
In another implementation, communications interface 1160 may include, for example, a transmitter that may convert baseband signals from processor 1120 to radio frequency (RF) signals and/or a receiver that may convert RF signals to baseband signals. Alternatively, communications interface 1160 may include a transceiver to perform functions of both a transmitter and a receiver of wireless communications (e.g., radio frequency, infrared, visual optics, etc.), wired communications (e.g., conductive wire, twisted pair cable, coaxial cable, transmission line, fiber optic cable, waveguide, etc.), or a combination of wireless and wired communications.
Communications interface 1160 may connect to an antenna assembly (not shown in
As will be described in detail below, device 1100 may perform certain operations. Device 1000 may perform these operations in response to processor 1120 executing software instructions (e.g., computer program(s)) contained in a computer-readable medium, such as memory 1130, a secondary storage device (e.g., hard disk, CD-ROM, etc.), or other forms of RAM or ROM. A computer-readable medium may be defined as a non-transitory memory device. A memory device may include space within a single physical memory device or spread across multiple physical memory devices. The software instructions may be read into memory 1030 from another computer-readable medium or from another device. The software instructions contained in memory 1130 may cause processor 1120 to perform processes described herein. Alternatively, hardwired circuitry may be used in place of or in combination with software instructions to implement processes described herein. Thus, implementations described herein are not limited to any specific combination of hardware circuitry and software.
In embodiments, communication 1304 may include microwave field information based on one or more of equations (1) to (17) as described above. In embodiments, device 1300 may receive communication 1304 and analyze communication 1304 based on one or more equations (1) to (17). In embodiments, device 1200 may generate output 1306. In embodiments, output 1306 may include electronic design information for a graphene structure. In embodiments, output 1206 may be received by device 1302. In embodiments, device 1302 may generate a physical graphene structure (e.g., graphene structure 100). In embodiments, device 1302 may include wafer fabrication systems. In embodiments, device 1302 may generate a graphene structure or a composite structure that includes a graphene structure.
Even though particular combinations of features are recited in the claims and/or disclosed in the specification, these combinations are not intended to limit the disclosure of the possible implementations. In fact, many of these features may be combined in ways not specifically recited in the claims and/or disclosed in the specification. Although each dependent claim listed below may directly depend on only one other claim, the disclosure of the possible implementations includes each dependent claim in combination with every other claim in the claim set.
While various actions are described as selecting, displaying, transferring, sending, receiving, generating, notifying, and storing, it will be understood that these example actions are occurring within an electronic computing and/or electronic networking environment and may require one or more computing devices, as described in
No element, act, or instruction used in the present application should be construed as critical or essential unless explicitly described as such. Also, as used herein, the article “a” is intended to include one or more items and may be used interchangeably with “one or more.” Where only one item is intended, the term “one” or similar language is used. Further, the phrase “based on” is intended to mean “based, at least in part, on” unless explicitly stated otherwise. Also, the phrase “converted text,” or “converted information” may indicate information that has been converted from handwritten or non-handwritten information to printed information. The phrase “information” may indicate letters, words, numbers, and/or symbols. The phrase “text” may indicate letters, numbers, and/or symbols. The phrases “information” and “text” may indicate the same thing, i.e., letters, numbers, and/or symbols. Also, while the above examples are associated with prescriptions, pharmacists, and doctors, the above example actions may also be used for other scenarios and analysis of other types of handwritten text, such as with purchase orders, shipping orders, etc.
In the preceding specification, various preferred embodiments have been described with reference to the accompanying drawings. It will, however, be evident that various modifications and changes may be made thereto, and additional embodiments may be implemented, without departing from the broader scope of the invention as set forth in the claims that follow. The specification and drawings are accordingly to be regarded in an illustrative rather than restrictive sense.
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