Parametrically driven hybrid qubits-photon systems: dissipation-induced quantum entanglement and photon production from vacuum

TL;DR

This paper explores how dissipation and periodic modulation in hybrid qubits-photon systems can enhance quantum entanglement and photon production, revealing complex dynamics useful for quantum information processing.

Contribution

It demonstrates that dissipation can be harnessed to stabilize entanglement and induce photon production, offering new insights into nonstationary cavity QED systems.

Findings

Optimal cavity decay stabilizes entanglement in steady state.

Energy dissipation in qubits enhances photon production from vacuum.

Dissipation can both destroy and stabilize quantum correlations.

Abstract

We consider a dissipative evolution of parametrically-driven qubits-cavity system under the periodical modulation of coupling energy between two subsystems, which leads to the amplification of counterrotating processes. We reveal a very rich dynamical behavior of this hybrid system. In particular, we find that the energy dissipation in one of the subsystems can enhance quantum effects in another subsystem. For instance, optimal cavity decay assists to stabilize entanglement and quantum correlations between qubits even in the steady state and to compensate finite qubit relaxation. On the contrary, energy dissipation in qubit subsystem results in the enhanced photon production from vacuum for strong modulation, but destroys both quantum concurrence and quantum mutual information between qubits. Our results provide deeper insights to nonstationary cavity quantum electrodynamics in context of quantum information processing and might be of importance for dissipative quantum state engineering.