Thermalizing channel states for rapid qubit heating
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| author | You, Ziyang Huang, Wenhui Zhang, Libo Liu, Song Zhong, Youpeng Gao, Yibo Ian, Hou |
| author_facet | You, Ziyang Huang, Wenhui Zhang, Libo Liu, Song Zhong, Youpeng Gao, Yibo Ian, Hou |
| contents | Although known for negatively impacting the operation of superconducting qubits, thermal baths are shown to exert qubit control in a positive way, provided they are properly engineered. We demonstrate an experimental method to engineer the transduction of microwave driving into heat flow through a leaky resonator. Given the precise conversion, a qubit receiving the heat flow obtains a quasi-thermal equilibrium with arbitrary target temperature in hundreds of nanoseconds. We show that the dynamics of the quantum transducing process is described by thermalizing channel states, generated from the double dressings of the resonator by the semi-classical driving and the qubit-resonator coupling. Their spectrum, coupling, and driving strength determine the channel rate of energy flow, along with the relaxation rates of photon leakage into the bath. The analytical prediction is shown to match well with the experimental measurements on an Xmon qubit circuit. |
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| spellingShingle | Thermalizing channel states for rapid qubit heating You, Ziyang Huang, Wenhui Zhang, Libo Liu, Song Zhong, Youpeng Gao, Yibo Ian, Hou Quantum Physics Although known for negatively impacting the operation of superconducting qubits, thermal baths are shown to exert qubit control in a positive way, provided they are properly engineered. We demonstrate an experimental method to engineer the transduction of microwave driving into heat flow through a leaky resonator. Given the precise conversion, a qubit receiving the heat flow obtains a quasi-thermal equilibrium with arbitrary target temperature in hundreds of nanoseconds. We show that the dynamics of the quantum transducing process is described by thermalizing channel states, generated from the double dressings of the resonator by the semi-classical driving and the qubit-resonator coupling. Their spectrum, coupling, and driving strength determine the channel rate of energy flow, along with the relaxation rates of photon leakage into the bath. The analytical prediction is shown to match well with the experimental measurements on an Xmon qubit circuit. |
| title | Thermalizing channel states for rapid qubit heating |
| topic | Quantum Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.15314 |