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Research in Optical Sciences

Non-absorbing high-efficiency counter for itinerant microwave photons

Bixuan Fan, Gerard J Milburn, Thomas M. Stace

Published Jan 1, 2014• 1 citation
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Abstract

We theoretically demonstrated that high-efficiency detection of single itinerant microwave photons in the non-absorbing manner can be achieved using a single transmon. The distinguishability between zero and one-photon state is up to 90 percent.
DOI
10.1364/qim.2014.qw3b.6

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