Entanglement generation via full-resonant four-wave mixing

We present to use a full-resonant four-level atomic system to generate the steady-state entanglement. This scheme is based on the nondegenerate four-wave mixing process with the four fields being resonant with the corresponding bare atomic transitions, unlike the previous mixing schemes, where the entanglement is achieved under the condition of off-resonance. Another feature of such a mixing is that four fields are coupled to the different atomic transitions, respectively. By choosing the atoms appropriately, entanglement occurs between the fields with the large frequency difference. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.