Coherence-Mediated Quantum Thermometry in a Hybrid Circuit-QED Architecture

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Autori principali: Zhu, Shaojiang, You, Xinyuan, Romanenko, Alexander, Grassellino, Anna
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Pubblicazione: 2025
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author Zhu, Shaojiang
You, Xinyuan
Romanenko, Alexander
Grassellino, Anna
author_facet Zhu, Shaojiang
You, Xinyuan
Romanenko, Alexander
Grassellino, Anna
contents Quantum thermometry plays a critical role in the development of low-temperature sensors and quantum information platforms. In this work, we propose and theoretically analyze a hybrid circuit quantum electrodynamics architecture in which a superconducting qubit is dispersively coupled to two distinct bosonic modes: one initialized in a weak coherent state and the other coupled to a thermal environment. We show that the qubit serves as a sensitive readout of the probe mode, mapping the interference between thermal and coherent photon-number fluctuations onto measurable dephasing. This mechanism enables enhanced sensitivity to sub-millikelvin thermal energy fluctuations through Ramsey interferometry. We derive analytic expressions for the qubit coherence envelope, compute the quantum Fisher information for temperature estimation, and demonstrate numerically that the presence of a coherent reference amplifies the qubit's sensitivity to small changes in thermal photon occupancy. Our results establish a new paradigm for quantum-enhanced thermometry and provide a scalable platform for future calorimetric sensing in high-energy physics and quantum metrology.
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spellingShingle Coherence-Mediated Quantum Thermometry in a Hybrid Circuit-QED Architecture
Zhu, Shaojiang
You, Xinyuan
Romanenko, Alexander
Grassellino, Anna
Quantum Physics
Quantum thermometry plays a critical role in the development of low-temperature sensors and quantum information platforms. In this work, we propose and theoretically analyze a hybrid circuit quantum electrodynamics architecture in which a superconducting qubit is dispersively coupled to two distinct bosonic modes: one initialized in a weak coherent state and the other coupled to a thermal environment. We show that the qubit serves as a sensitive readout of the probe mode, mapping the interference between thermal and coherent photon-number fluctuations onto measurable dephasing. This mechanism enables enhanced sensitivity to sub-millikelvin thermal energy fluctuations through Ramsey interferometry. We derive analytic expressions for the qubit coherence envelope, compute the quantum Fisher information for temperature estimation, and demonstrate numerically that the presence of a coherent reference amplifies the qubit's sensitivity to small changes in thermal photon occupancy. Our results establish a new paradigm for quantum-enhanced thermometry and provide a scalable platform for future calorimetric sensing in high-energy physics and quantum metrology.
title Coherence-Mediated Quantum Thermometry in a Hybrid Circuit-QED Architecture
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.16318