Qubit entanglement across epsilon-near-zero media Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • 2017 American Physical Society. Currently, epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) materials have become important for controlling the propagation of light and enhancing by several orders of magnitude the Kerr and other nonlinearities. Given this advance it is important to examine the quantum electrodynamic processes and information tasks near ENZ materials. We study the entanglement between two two-level systems near ENZ materials and compare our results with the case where the ENZ material is replaced by a metal. It is shown that with ENZ materials substantial entanglement can be achieved over larger distances than for metal films. We show that this entanglement over large distances is due to the fact that one can not only have large emission rates but also large energy transmission rates at the epsilon-near-zero wavelength. This establishes the superiority of ENZ materials for studying processes specifically important for quantum information tasks.

published proceedings

  • PHYSICAL REVIEW A

altmetric score

  • 1

author list (cited authors)

  • Biehs, S., & Agarwal, G. S.

citation count

  • 18

complete list of authors

  • Biehs, S-A||Agarwal, GS

publication date

  • August 2017