Demonstration of deterministic SWAP gate between superconducting and frequency-encoded microwave-photon qubits

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Main Authors: Koshino, Kazuki, Inomata, Kunihiro
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author Koshino, Kazuki
Inomata, Kunihiro
author_facet Koshino, Kazuki
Inomata, Kunihiro
contents The number of superconducting qubits contained in a single quantum processor is increasing steadily. However, to realize a truly useful quantum computer, it is inevitable to increase the number of qubits much further by distributing quantum information among distant processors using flying qubits. Here, we demonstrate a key element towards this goal, namely, a SWAP gate between the superconducting-atom and microwave-photon qubits. The working principle of this gate is the single-photon Raman interaction, which results from strong interference in one-dimensional optical systems and enables a high gate fidelity insensitively to the pulse shape of the photon qubit, by simply bouncing the photon qubit at a cavity attached to the atom qubit. We confirm the bidirectional quantum state transfer between the atom and photon qubits. The averaged fidelity of the photon-to-atom (atom-to-photon) state transfer reaches 0.829 (0.801), limited mainly by the energy relaxation time of the atom qubit. The present atom-photon gate, equipped with an in situ tunability of the gate type, would enable various applications in distributed quantum computation using superconducting qubits and microwave photons.
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spellingShingle Demonstration of deterministic SWAP gate between superconducting and frequency-encoded microwave-photon qubits
Koshino, Kazuki
Inomata, Kunihiro
Quantum Physics
The number of superconducting qubits contained in a single quantum processor is increasing steadily. However, to realize a truly useful quantum computer, it is inevitable to increase the number of qubits much further by distributing quantum information among distant processors using flying qubits. Here, we demonstrate a key element towards this goal, namely, a SWAP gate between the superconducting-atom and microwave-photon qubits. The working principle of this gate is the single-photon Raman interaction, which results from strong interference in one-dimensional optical systems and enables a high gate fidelity insensitively to the pulse shape of the photon qubit, by simply bouncing the photon qubit at a cavity attached to the atom qubit. We confirm the bidirectional quantum state transfer between the atom and photon qubits. The averaged fidelity of the photon-to-atom (atom-to-photon) state transfer reaches 0.829 (0.801), limited mainly by the energy relaxation time of the atom qubit. The present atom-photon gate, equipped with an in situ tunability of the gate type, would enable various applications in distributed quantum computation using superconducting qubits and microwave photons.
title Demonstration of deterministic SWAP gate between superconducting and frequency-encoded microwave-photon qubits
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.04548