Chiral SQUID-metamaterial waveguide for circuit-QED

Autor: Xin Wang, Ya-Fen Lin, Jia-Qi Li, Wen-Xiao Liu, Hong-Rong Li
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: New Journal of Physics, Vol 24, Iss 12, p 123010 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1367-2630
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/aca87e
Popis: Superconducting metamaterials, which are designed and fabricated with structured fundamental circuit elements, have motivated recent developments of exploring unconventional quantum phenomena in circuit quantum electrodynamics (circuit-QEDs). We propose a method to engineer 1D Josephson metamaterial as a chiral waveguide by considering a programmed spatiotemporal modulation on its effective impedance. The modulation currents are in the form of travelling waves which phase velocities are much slower than the propagation speed of microwave photons. Due to the Brillouin-scattering process, non-trivial spectrum regimes where photons can propagate unidirectionally emerge. Considering superconducting qubits coupling with this metamaterial waveguide, we analyze both Markovian and non-Markovian quantum dynamics, and find that superconducting qubits can dissipate photons unidirectionally. Moreover, we show that our proposal can be extended a cascaded quantum network with multiple nodes, where chiral photon transport between remote qubits can be realized. Our work might open the possibilities to exploit SQUID metamaterials for realizing unidirectional photon transport in circuit-QED platforms.
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