Quantum Control in the Parametric Oscillator

Lin Zhang, Weiping Zhang

A variety of dynamics in this world can be approximately treated by a model: a driven and damped parametric oscillator. An intensive investigate of this time-dependent model from both classical and quantum mechanical points of view provides a dynamical insight to resolve the classical and quantum dynamics in order to understand the more complicated time-dependent evolutions not only happens in the macroscopic classical scale for the synchronized behaviors but also in the coherent microscopic scale for a quantum state control. By using a Lie transformation on a general time-dependent quadratic Hamiltonian, we exactly solve the dynamical behaviors of the driven and damped parametric oscillator to give a universal physical mechanism for the classical parametric control on the quantum state evolution in a dissipation system.

Paul Kinsler

T. Yamaji, S. Kagami, Aiko Yamaguchi +6 more

We study microwave response of a Josephson parametric oscillator consisting of a superconducting transmission-line resonator with an embedded DC-superconducting quantum interference device (-SQUID). The DC-SQUID allows to control the magnitude of a Kerr nonlinearity over the ranges where it is smaller or larger than the photon loss rate. Spectroscopy measurements reveal the change in the microwave response from a classical Duffing oscillator to a Kerr parametric oscillator in a single device. In the single-photon Kerr regime, we observe parametric oscillations with a well-defined phase of either 0 or $\ensuremath{\pi}$, whose probability can be controlled by an externally injected signal.

Konrad W. Lehnert

Dionisis Stefanatos

In this article we use geometric optimal control to completely solve the problem of minimum-time transitions between thermal equilibrium and fixed average energy states of the quantum parametric oscillator, a system which has been extensively used to model quantum heat engines and refrigerators. We subsequently use the obtained results to find the minimum driving time for a quantum refrigerator and the quantum finite-time availability of the parametric oscillator, i.e., the potential work which can be extracted from this system by a very short finite-time process.

В. С. Попов, A. M. Perelomov