Dissipative preparation of a tripartite singlet state in coupled arrays of cavities via quantum feedback control

Abstract

We propose an experimentally feasible scheme for dissipative preparation of a tripartite entangled state with atoms separately trapped in an array of three coupled cavities. The combination of coherent driving fields and quantum-jump-based feedback control will drive the system into a nonequilibrium steady state, which has a nearly perfect overlap with the genuine three-atom singlet state. Different control strategies are investigated and the corresponding optimal parameters are confirmed. Moreover, the fidelity of the target state is insensitive to detection inefficiencies, and it exceeds 90% for a wide range of decoherence parameters as long as the single-atom cooperativity parameter $C\ensuremath{\equiv}{g}^{2}/(\ensuremath{\gamma}\ensuremath{\kappa})>350$.