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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

Planck Spectroscopy and the Quantum-Mechanics of Microwave Beam splitters

M. Mariantoni, E. P. Menzel, Frank Deppe, Miguel Ángel Araque Caballero, A. Baust, Élisabeth Hoffmann, Tomasz Niemczyk, Achim Marx, Rudolf Groß, E. Solano

Published Mar 16, 2010• 0 citations
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Coupled superconducting transmission line resonators have applications in quantum information processing and fundamental quantum mechanics. A particular example is the realization of fast beam splitters, which however is hampered by two-mode squeezer terms. Here, we experimentally study superconducting microstrip resonators which are coupled over one third of their length. By varying the position of this coupling region we can tune the strength of the two-mode squeezer coupling from 2.4% to 12.9% of the resonance frequency of 5.44GHz. Nevertheless, the beam splitter coupling rate for maximally suppressed two-mode squeezing is 810MHz, enabling the construction of a fast and pure beam splitter.