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Physical Review X

Controlling Atom-Photon Bound States in an Array of Josephson-Junction Resonators

Marco Scigliuzzo, Giuseppe Calajò, Francesco Ciccarello, Daniel Pérez Lozano, Andreas Bengtsson, Pasquale Scarlino, Andreas J. Wallraff, Darrick E. Chang, Per Delsing, Simone Gasparinetti

Published Sep 12, 2022• 82 citations
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Abstract

Two superconducting qubits coupled to an array of resonators are dressed by two photonic clouds that mediate their interaction and create two atom-photon bound states, an architecture that could be used for quantum simulation of spin models.
DOI
10.1103/physrevx.12.031036

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