Continuous-variable entanglement generated with a hybrid PT-symmetric system

TL;DR

This paper explores how macroscopic continuous-variable entanglement can be generated in a hybrid PT-symmetric optical system with gain and damping, highlighting the role of quantum noise and system parameters.

Contribution

It introduces a novel scheme for entanglement generation using coupled waveguides with gain and damping, analyzing the impact of quantum noise and squeezing configurations.

Findings

Quantum noise critically affects entanglement degree.

Adding squeezing in damping waveguide destroys entanglement.

Entanglement degree is independent of input light intensity.

Abstract

We study a proposal of generating macroscopic continuous-variable entanglement with two coupled waveguides respectively carrying optical damping and optical gain. Moreover, a squeezing element is added into one or both waveguides. We show that quantum noise effect existing in the process is essential to the degree of the generated entanglement. It will totally eliminate the entanglement in the setup of adding the squeezing element into the waveguide filled with optical damping material, but will not completely damp the entanglement to zero in the other configurations of having the squeezing element in the gain medium or in both gain and damping medium. The degree of the generated continuous-variable entanglement is irrelevant to the intensities of the input light in coherent states. Moreover, the relations between the entanglement and system parameters are illustrated in terms of the dynamical evolutions of the created continuous-variable entanglement.