Waveguide quantum electrodynamics with superconducting artificial giant atoms.

Autor: Kannan B; Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA. bkannan@mit.edu.; Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA. bkannan@mit.edu., Ruckriegel MJ; Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA., Campbell DL; Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA., Frisk Kockum A; Wallenberg Centre for Quantum Technology, Department of Microtechnology and Nanoscience, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden., Braumüller J; Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA., Kim DK; MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA, USA., Kjaergaard M; Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA., Krantz P; Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.; Wallenberg Centre for Quantum Technology, Department of Microtechnology and Nanoscience, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden., Melville A; MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA, USA., Niedzielski BM; MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA, USA., Vepsäläinen A; Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA., Winik R; Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA., Yoder JL; MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA, USA., Nori F; Theoretical Quantum Physics Laboratory, RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research, Wako, Japan.; Department of Physics, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA., Orlando TP; Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.; Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA., Gustavsson S; Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA., Oliver WD; Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA. william.oliver@mit.edu.; Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA. william.oliver@mit.edu.; MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA, USA. william.oliver@mit.edu.; Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA. william.oliver@mit.edu.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Nature [Nature] 2020 Jul; Vol. 583 (7818), pp. 775-779. Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 Jul 29.
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-2529-9
Abstrakt: Models of light-matter interactions in quantum electrodynamics typically invoke the dipole approximation 1,2 , in which atoms are treated as point-like objects when compared to the wavelength of the electromagnetic modes with which they interact. However, when the ratio between the size of the atom and the mode wavelength is increased, the dipole approximation no longer holds and the atom is referred to as a 'giant atom' 2,3 . So far, experimental studies with solid-state devices in the giant-atom regime have been limited to superconducting qubits that couple to short-wavelength surface acoustic waves 4-10 , probing the properties of the atom at only a single frequency. Here we use an alternative architecture that realizes a giant atom by coupling small atoms to a waveguide at multiple, but well separated, discrete locations. This system enables tunable atom-waveguide couplings with large on-off ratios 3 and a coupling spectrum that can be engineered by the design of the device. We also demonstrate decoherence-free interactions between multiple giant atoms that are mediated by the quasi-continuous spectrum of modes in the waveguide-an effect that is not achievable using small atoms 11 . These features allow qubits in this architecture to switch between protected and emissive configurations in situ while retaining qubit-qubit interactions, opening up possibilities for high-fidelity quantum simulations and non-classical itinerant photon generation 12,13 .
Databáze: MEDLINE
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