ATOMIC WEHRL ENTROPY OF A SINGLE QUBIT SYSTEM

作者:Abdel Khalek S*; Abdel Hameed H F; Abdel Aty M
来源:International Journal of Quantum Information, 2011, 9(3): 967-979.
DOI:10.1142/S0219749911007538

摘要

We propose the use of atomic Wehrl entropy associated to the reduced atomic density operator as an entanglement indicator of bipartite systems. This is applied to a two-level system (one single harmonically trapped ion) by taking into account the linear center-of-mass-motional degree of freedom. Detailed analytical and explicit expressions are given, taking into account different configurations. The results show the important roles played by the laser phase and initial state setting in the evolution of the atomic Q-function, atomic Wehrl entropy and marginal atomic Q-function. Our procedure of using atomic Wehrl entropy may be applied to a system with Hilbert space of high dimension.

  • 出版日期2011-4