Direct detection of down-converted photons spontaneously produced at a single Josephson junction

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Main Authors: Fraudet, Dorian, Snyman, Izak, Basko, Denis M., Léger, Sébastien, Sépulcre, Théo, Ranadive, Arpit, Gal, Gwenael Le, Torras-Coloma, Alba, Florens, Serge, Roch, Nicolas
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author Fraudet, Dorian
Snyman, Izak
Basko, Denis M.
Léger, Sébastien
Sépulcre, Théo
Ranadive, Arpit
Gal, Gwenael Le
Torras-Coloma, Alba
Florens, Serge
Roch, Nicolas
author_facet Fraudet, Dorian
Snyman, Izak
Basko, Denis M.
Léger, Sébastien
Sépulcre, Théo
Ranadive, Arpit
Gal, Gwenael Le
Torras-Coloma, Alba
Florens, Serge
Roch, Nicolas
contents We study spontaneous photon decay into multiple photons triggered by strong non-linearities in a superconducting quantum simulator of the boundary sine-Gordon impurity model. Previously, spectroscopic signatures of photon-conversion were reported and evidenced as resonances in the many-body spectrum of these systems. Here, we report on the observation of multi-mode fluorescence of a small Josephson junction embedded in a high impedance superconducting transmission line. Measurement of the down-converted photons is achieved using state-of-the-art broadband parametric amplifiers. Photon triplet emission is explicitly demonstrated at a given frequency as the counterpart of inelastic photon decay at three-times the emission frequency. These results open exciting prospects for the burgeoning field of many-body quantum optics and offer a direct signature of the ultra-strong light-matter coupling.
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spellingShingle Direct detection of down-converted photons spontaneously produced at a single Josephson junction
Fraudet, Dorian
Snyman, Izak
Basko, Denis M.
Léger, Sébastien
Sépulcre, Théo
Ranadive, Arpit
Gal, Gwenael Le
Torras-Coloma, Alba
Florens, Serge
Roch, Nicolas
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Quantum Physics
We study spontaneous photon decay into multiple photons triggered by strong non-linearities in a superconducting quantum simulator of the boundary sine-Gordon impurity model. Previously, spectroscopic signatures of photon-conversion were reported and evidenced as resonances in the many-body spectrum of these systems. Here, we report on the observation of multi-mode fluorescence of a small Josephson junction embedded in a high impedance superconducting transmission line. Measurement of the down-converted photons is achieved using state-of-the-art broadband parametric amplifiers. Photon triplet emission is explicitly demonstrated at a given frequency as the counterpart of inelastic photon decay at three-times the emission frequency. These results open exciting prospects for the burgeoning field of many-body quantum optics and offer a direct signature of the ultra-strong light-matter coupling.
title Direct detection of down-converted photons spontaneously produced at a single Josephson junction
topic Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00411