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Field Programmable Josephson Amplifier for non-reciprocal microwave signal processing

February 17, 2017
Author(s)
Florent Q. Lecocq, Leonardo Ranzani, Gabriel A. Peterson, Katarina Cicak, Raymond W. Simmonds, John D. Teufel, Jose A. Aumentado
We report on the design and implementation of a Field Programmable Josephson Amplifier (FPJA) - a compact and lossless superconducting circuit that can be programmed in-situ by a set of microwave drives to perform reciprocal and non-reciprocal frequency

Investigating Bias in Maximum Likelihood Quantum State Tomography

February 8, 2017
Author(s)
Scott C. Glancy, Hilma M. Vasconcelos, George B. Silva
Maximum likelihood quantum state tomography yields estimators that, in spite of the fact that they are consistent, may have bias. The bias of an estimator is the difference between the expected value of the estimate and the true value of the parameter

Enriching and purifying silicon epilayers for quantum information

December 6, 2016
Author(s)
Joshua M. Pomeroy, Kevin J. Dwyer, Ke Tang, Hyun S. Kim, Aruna N. Ramanayaka, David S. Simons
High quality, enriched silicon contains an exceptionally low density of defects and unpaired electron and nuclear spins that allow candidate qubits (single donors or quantum dots) to exhibit very long dephasing times compared to silicon with a natural

Entangling distant resonant exchange qubits via circuit quantum electrodynamics

November 16, 2016
Author(s)
Jacob M. Taylor, Vanita Srinivasa, Charles Tahan
We investigate a hybrid quantum system consisting of spatially separated resonant exchange qubits, defined in three-electron semiconductor triple quantum dots, that are coupled via a super- conducting transmission line resonator. By analyzing three

Cascaded emission of single photons from the biexciton in monolayered WSe2

November 10, 2016
Author(s)
Yu-Ming He, Oliver Iff, Nils Lundt, Vasilij Baumann, Marcelo I. Davanco, Kartik Srinivasan, Sven Hofling, Christian Schneider
Monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenide materials emerged as a new material class to study excitonic effects in solid state. They benefit from the enormous coulomb correlations between electrons and holes, as a result of reduced dielectric screening

Heralding single photons from a high-Q silicon microdisk

November 10, 2016
Author(s)
Xiyuan Lu, Steven Rogers, Thomas Gerrits, Wei Jiang, Sae Woo Nam, Qiang Lin
Integrated quantum photonics has recently attracted considerable attention due to the promise of realizing chip-scale quantum information processing with unprecedented capability and complexity. Their implementation relies essentially on a high-quality

Double Quantum Dot Floquet Gain Medium

November 7, 2016
Author(s)
Jacob M. Taylor, Michael Gullans, Jason Petta, J. Stehlik, Yinyiu Liu, Christopher Eichler, T Hartke, X Mi
A qubit coupled to a microwave resonator allows the study of fundamental light-matter interactions at the level of single photons1. The paradigm of circuit quantum electrodynam- ics (cQED) enables the generation of classical and non-classical light2–5

Origin and Reduction of 1=f Magnetic Flux Noise in Superconducting Devices

October 18, 2016
Author(s)
P Kumar, David P. Pappas, Robert Mcdermott, J.W. Freeland, Clare Yu, M Beck, Hui Wang, Ruqian Wu
Magnetic flux noise is a dominant source of dephasing and energy relaxation in superconducting qubits. The noise power spectral density varies with frequency as 1=f^α, with α ≲ 1, and spans 13 orders of magnitude. Recent work indicates that the noise is

Non-equilibrium Transport of Light

October 16, 2016
Author(s)
Jacob M. Taylor, Chiao-Hsuan Wang
Understanding the behavior of light in non-equilibrium scenarios underpins much of quantum optics and optical physics. While lasers provide a severe example of a non-equilibrium problem, recent interests in the near-equilibrium physics of photon `gases'

Adiabatic Optimization versus Diffusion Monte Carlo

October 13, 2016
Author(s)
Stephen P. Jordan, Michael Jarret, Brad Lackey
Most experimental and theoretical studies of adiabatic optimization use stoquastic Hamiltonians, whose ground states are expressible using only real nonnegative amplitudes. This raises a question as to whether classical Monte Carlo methods can simulate

Framework for learning agents in quantum environments

September 22, 2016
Author(s)
Jacob M. Taylor, Hans Briegel, Vedran Dunjko
In this paper we provide a broad framework for describing learning agents in general quantum environments. We analyze the types of environments which allow for quantum enhancements in learning, by contrasting environments to quantum oracles. We show that

Code-division-multiplexed readout of large arrays of TES microcalorimeters

September 15, 2016
Author(s)
Kelsey M. Morgan, Bradley K. Alpert, Douglas A. Bennett, William B. Doriese, Joseph W. Fowler, Johnathon D. Gard, Gene C. Hilton, Kent D. Irwin, Young Il Joe, Galen C. O'Neil, Carl D. Reintsema, Edward V. Denison, Daniel R. Schmidt, Joel N. Ullom, Daniel S. Swetz
Code-division multiplexing (CDM) offers a path to reading out large arrays of transition edge sensor (TES) X-ray micro-calorimeters with excellent energy and timing resolution. We demonstrate the readout of X-ray TESs with a 32-channel flux-summed code

Grover search and the no-signaling principle

September 14, 2016
Author(s)
Ning Bao, Bouland Adam, Stephen P. Jordan
From an information processing point of view, two of the key properties of quantum physics are the no-signaling principle and the Grover search lower bound. That is, despite admitting stronger-than-classical correlations, quantum mechanics does not imply

Effective Field Theory for Rydberg Polaritons

September 9, 2016
Author(s)
Michael Gullans, Yidan Wang, Jeff D. Thompson, Qiyu Liang, Vladan Vuletic, Mikhail D. Lukin, Alexey V. Gorshkov
We develop an effective field theory (EFT) to describe the few- and many-body propagation of one- dimensional Rydberg polaritons. We show that the photonic transmission through the Rydberg medium can be found by mapping the propagation problem to a

A quantum enigma machine: Experimentally demonstrating quantum data locking

August 12, 2016
Author(s)
Daniel Lum, Michael S. Allman, Thomas Gerrits, Cosmo Lupo, Seth Lloyd, Varun Verma, Sae Woo Nam, John Howell
During the first half of the 20th century, enigma machines (i.e., pseudorandom polyalphabetic ciphers) of increasing sophistication gave better resistance against brute-force codebreaking attacks. However, the ultimate form of cryptographic security is

Demonstration of EPR steering using single-photon path entanglement and displacement-based detection

August 12, 2016
Author(s)
T Guerreiro, F. Monteiro, A Martin, J B. Brask, T Vertesi, Boris Korzh, Felix Bussieres, Varun Verma, Adriana Lita, Richard Mirin, Sae Woo Nam, Francesco Marsili, Matthew D. Shaw, Nicolas Gisin, Nicolas Brunner, Hugo Zbinden, Robert Thew
We demonstrate the violation of an EPR steering inequality developed for single photon path entanglement with displacement-based detection. We use a high-rate source of heralded single-photon path-entangled states, combined with high efficiency

Sisyphus Thermalization of Photons in a Double Quantum Dot

July 29, 2016
Author(s)
Michael Gullans, J. Stehlik, Y.-Y. Liu, Christopher Eichler, Jason Petta, Jacob M. Taylor
A strongly driven quantum system coupled to a thermalizing bath generically evolves into a highly non-thermal state as the external drive competes with the equilibrating force of the bath. We demonstrate a notable exception to this picture for a microwave
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