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arXiv:1911.00869 · AIP Advances

Hybrid spin-superconducting quantum circuit mediated by deterministically prepared entangled photonic states

Kayleigh Mathieson, Somnath Bhattacharyya

Published Nov 1, 2019• 1 citation
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Abstract

In hybrid quantum systems, a controllable coupling can be obtained by mediating the interactions with dynamically introduced photons. We propose a hybrid quantum architecture consisting of two nitrogen vacancy center ensembles coupled to a tunable flux qubit, which is contained on the transmission line of a multimode nonlinear superconducting coplanar waveguide resonator with an appended Josephson mixing device. We discuss the use of entangled propagating microwaves photons, which through our nonlinear wave-mixing procedure are made into macroscopically distinct quantum states. We use these states to steer the system and show that, with further amplification, we can create a similar photonic state, which has a more distinct reduction of its uncertainty. Furthermore, we show that all of this leads to a lengthened coherence time, a reasonable fidelity that decays to 0.94 and then later increases upward to stabilize at 0.6, as well as a strengthened entanglement.

DOI
10.1063/1.5125224

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