Production of genuine multimode entanglement in circular waveguides with long-range interactions (2303.15137v2)

Abstract: Starting with a product initial state, squeezed (squeezed coherent) state in one of the modes, and vacuum in the rest, we report that a circular waveguide comprising modes coupled with varying coupling strength is capable of producing genuine multimode entanglement (GME), quantified via the generalized geometric measure (GGM). We demonstrate that for a fixed coupling and squeezing strength, the GME content of the resulting state increases as the range of couplings between the waveguides increases, although the GGM collapses and revives with the variation of coupling strength and time. The advantage of long-range coupling can be emphasized by measuring the area under the GGM curve, which clearly illustrates the growing trends of GME with the increasing range of couplings. Moreover, long-range couplings help in generating a higher GGM for a fixed coupling strength. We analytically determine the exact expression of GGM for systems involving an arbitrary number of modes, when all the modes interact with each other equally. The entire analysis is performed in the phase-space formalism. We manifest the constructive effect of disorder in the coupling parameter, which promises a steady production of GME, independent of the coupling strength.