Dissipative preparation of distributed steady entanglement: an approach of unilateral qubit driving

We propose a nonlocal scheme for preparing a distributed steady-state entanglement of two atoms trapped in separate optical cavities coupled through an optical fiber based on the combined effect of the unitary dynamics and dissipative process. In this scheme, only the qubit of one node is driven by an external classical field, while the other one does not need to be manipulated by an external field. This is meaningful for long distance quantum information processing tasks, and the experimental implementation is greatly simplified due to the unilateral manipulation on one node and the process of entanglement distribution can be avoided. This guarantees the absolute security of long distance quantum information processing tasks and makes the scheme more robust than that based on the unitary dynamics. We introduce the purity to characterize the mixture degree of the target steady-state. The steady entanglement can be obtained independent of the initial state. Furthermore, based on the dissipative entanglement preparation scheme, we construct a quantum teleportation setup with multiple nodes as a practical application, and the numerical simulation demonstrates the scheme can be realized effectively under the current experimental conditions. (C) 2017 Optical Society of America