High-Rate Four Photon Subtraction from Squeezed Vacuum: Preparing Cat State for Optical Quantum Computation
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| author | Endo, Mamoru Nomura, Takefumi Sonoyama, Tatsuki Takahashi, Kazuma Takasu, Sachiko Fukuda, Daiji Kashiwazaki, Takahiro Inoue, Asuka Umeki, Takeshi Nehra, Rajveer Marek, Petr Filip, Radim Takase, Kan Asavanant, Warit Furusawa, Akira |
| author_facet | Endo, Mamoru Nomura, Takefumi Sonoyama, Tatsuki Takahashi, Kazuma Takasu, Sachiko Fukuda, Daiji Kashiwazaki, Takahiro Inoue, Asuka Umeki, Takeshi Nehra, Rajveer Marek, Petr Filip, Radim Takase, Kan Asavanant, Warit Furusawa, Akira |
| contents | Generating logical qubits, essential for error detection and correction in quantum computation, remains a critical challenge in continuous-variable (CV) optical quantum information processing. The Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill (GKP) code is a leading candidate for logical qubits, and its generation requires large-amplitude coherent state superpositions -- Schrödinger cat states. However, experimentally producing these resource states has been hindered in the optical domain by technical challenges. The photon subtraction method, a standard approach for generating cat states using a squeezed vacuum and a photon number-resolving detector, has proven difficult to scale to multi-photon operations. While the amplitude of the generated cat states increases with the number of subtracted photons, limitations in the generation rate have restricted the maximum photon subtraction to $n=3$ for over a decade. In this work, we demonstrate high-rate photon subtraction of up to four photons from a squeezed vacuum with picosecond wavepackets generated by a broadband optical parametric amplifier. Using a Ti-Au superconducting-transition-edge sensor, we achieve high-speed, high-resolution photon number discrimination. The resulting states exhibit Wigner function negativity without loss correction, and their quantum coherence is verified through off-diagonal density matrix elements in CV representation. These results overcome long-standing limitations in multi-photon operations, providing a critical foundation for generating quantum resources essential for fault-tolerant quantum computing and advancing ultrafast optical quantum processors. |
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| spellingShingle | High-Rate Four Photon Subtraction from Squeezed Vacuum: Preparing Cat State for Optical Quantum Computation Endo, Mamoru Nomura, Takefumi Sonoyama, Tatsuki Takahashi, Kazuma Takasu, Sachiko Fukuda, Daiji Kashiwazaki, Takahiro Inoue, Asuka Umeki, Takeshi Nehra, Rajveer Marek, Petr Filip, Radim Takase, Kan Asavanant, Warit Furusawa, Akira Quantum Physics Optics Generating logical qubits, essential for error detection and correction in quantum computation, remains a critical challenge in continuous-variable (CV) optical quantum information processing. The Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill (GKP) code is a leading candidate for logical qubits, and its generation requires large-amplitude coherent state superpositions -- Schrödinger cat states. However, experimentally producing these resource states has been hindered in the optical domain by technical challenges. The photon subtraction method, a standard approach for generating cat states using a squeezed vacuum and a photon number-resolving detector, has proven difficult to scale to multi-photon operations. While the amplitude of the generated cat states increases with the number of subtracted photons, limitations in the generation rate have restricted the maximum photon subtraction to $n=3$ for over a decade. In this work, we demonstrate high-rate photon subtraction of up to four photons from a squeezed vacuum with picosecond wavepackets generated by a broadband optical parametric amplifier. Using a Ti-Au superconducting-transition-edge sensor, we achieve high-speed, high-resolution photon number discrimination. The resulting states exhibit Wigner function negativity without loss correction, and their quantum coherence is verified through off-diagonal density matrix elements in CV representation. These results overcome long-standing limitations in multi-photon operations, providing a critical foundation for generating quantum resources essential for fault-tolerant quantum computing and advancing ultrafast optical quantum processors. |
| title | High-Rate Four Photon Subtraction from Squeezed Vacuum: Preparing Cat State for Optical Quantum Computation |
| topic | Quantum Physics Optics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.08952 |