Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Few Photon – Qubit Scattering in Dispersive Waveguides

Şükrü Ekin Kocabaş

Published Jan 1, 2016• 0 citations

Abstract

Dispersion in waveguides leads to atom-photon bound states in qubits embedded in waveguides. We utilize Feynman diagrams and numerical simulations to analyze one-and two-photon scattering from qubits with the aim to test different quantum information processing schemes.

DOI: 10.1364/cleo_at.2016.jtu5a.1

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