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arXiv:1812.07717 · Physical Review A

Adiabatic Fock-state-generation scheme using Kerr nonlinearity

Ryotatsu Yanagimoto, Edwin Ng, Tatsuhiro Onodera, Hideo Mabuchi

Published Sep 16, 2019• 21 citations
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Abstract

We propose a theoretical scheme to deterministically generate Fock states in a Kerr cavity through adiabatic variation of the driving field strength and the cavity detuning. We show that the required time to generate an $n$-photon Fock state scales as the square root of $n$. Requirements for the Kerr coefficient relative to the system decoherence rate are provided as a function of desired state fidelity, indicating that the scheme is potentially realizable with the present state of the art in microwave superconducting circuits.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.100.033822

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