Entanglement tongue and quantum synchronization of disordered oscillators
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Lee, Tony E.; Chan, Ching-Kit; Wang, Shenshen
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We study the synchronization of dissipatively coupled van der Pol oscillators in the quantum limit, when each oscillator is near its quantum ground state. Two quantum oscillators with different frequencies exhibit an entanglement tongue, which is the quantum analog of an Arnold tongue. It means that the oscillators are entangled in steady state when the coupling strength is greater than a critical value, and the critical coupling increases with detuning. An ensemble of many oscillators with random frequencies still exhibits a synchronization phase transition in the quantum limit, and we analytically calculate how the critical coupling depends on the frequency disorder. Our results can be experimentally observed with trapped ions or neutral atoms.
Date issued
2014-02Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemical Engineering; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of PhysicsJournal
Physical Review E
Publisher
American Physical Society
Citation
Lee, Tony E., Ching-Kit Chan, and Shenshen Wang. “Entanglement Tongue and Quantum Synchronization of Disordered Oscillators.” Phys. Rev. E 89, no. 2 (February 2014). © 2014 American Physical Society
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1539-3755
1550-2376