Experimental Realization of Rabi-Driven Reset for Fast Cooling of a High-Q Cavity

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Autores principales: Blumenthal, Eliya, Karaev, Natan, Hacohen-Gourgy, Shay
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author Blumenthal, Eliya
Karaev, Natan
Hacohen-Gourgy, Shay
author_facet Blumenthal, Eliya
Karaev, Natan
Hacohen-Gourgy, Shay
contents High-Q bosonic memories are central to hardware-efficient quantum error correction, but their isolation makes fast, high-fidelity reset a persistent bottleneck. Existing approaches either rely on weak intermode cross-Kerr conversion or on measurement-based sequences with substantial latency. Here we demonstrate a hardware-efficient Rabi-Driven Reset (RDR) that implements continuous, measurement-free cooling of a superconducting cavity mode. A strong resonant Rabi drive on a transmon, together with sideband drives on the memory and readout modes detuned by the Rabi frequency, converts the dispersive interaction into an effective Jaynes-Cummings coupling between the qubit dressed states and each mode. This realizes a tunable dissipation channel from the memory to the cold readout bath. Crucially, the engineered coupling scales with the qubit-mode dispersive interaction and the drive amplitude, rather than with the intermode cross-Kerr, enabling fast cooling even in very weakly coupled architectures that deliberately suppress direct mode-mode coupling. We demonstrate RDR of a single photon with a decay time of $1.2 μs$, more than two orders of magnitude faster than the intrinsic lifetime. Furthermore, we reset about 30 thermal photons in about $80 μs$ to a steady-state average photon number of $\bar{n} = 0.045 \pm 0.025$.
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spellingShingle Experimental Realization of Rabi-Driven Reset for Fast Cooling of a High-Q Cavity
Blumenthal, Eliya
Karaev, Natan
Hacohen-Gourgy, Shay
Quantum Physics
High-Q bosonic memories are central to hardware-efficient quantum error correction, but their isolation makes fast, high-fidelity reset a persistent bottleneck. Existing approaches either rely on weak intermode cross-Kerr conversion or on measurement-based sequences with substantial latency. Here we demonstrate a hardware-efficient Rabi-Driven Reset (RDR) that implements continuous, measurement-free cooling of a superconducting cavity mode. A strong resonant Rabi drive on a transmon, together with sideband drives on the memory and readout modes detuned by the Rabi frequency, converts the dispersive interaction into an effective Jaynes-Cummings coupling between the qubit dressed states and each mode. This realizes a tunable dissipation channel from the memory to the cold readout bath. Crucially, the engineered coupling scales with the qubit-mode dispersive interaction and the drive amplitude, rather than with the intermode cross-Kerr, enabling fast cooling even in very weakly coupled architectures that deliberately suppress direct mode-mode coupling. We demonstrate RDR of a single photon with a decay time of $1.2 μs$, more than two orders of magnitude faster than the intrinsic lifetime. Furthermore, we reset about 30 thermal photons in about $80 μs$ to a steady-state average photon number of $\bar{n} = 0.045 \pm 0.025$.
title Experimental Realization of Rabi-Driven Reset for Fast Cooling of a High-Q Cavity
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.10385