Photon-echo synchronization and quantum state transfer in short quantum links
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| author | Jiang, Hong Barahona-Pascual, Carlos García-Ripoll, Juan José |
| author_facet | Jiang, Hong Barahona-Pascual, Carlos García-Ripoll, Juan José |
| contents | The short quantum link regime, where the photon travel time $τ$ is comparable to the emitter lifetime $1/γ$, is experimentally relevant but theoretically underexplored: existing few-mode descriptions lose validity as retardation and multimode effects become significant. Using a Delay Differential Equation (DDE) framework that admits exact analytical solutions from the single-mode cavity limit to the multimode waveguide continuum, we show that emitters coupled to a short link spontaneously lock into self-synchronized Rabi oscillations driven by coherent photon echoes, breaking the link's discrete time-displacement symmetry. The resulting spectral structure -- persistent quasi-dark states and vacuum Rabi splitting, including in the superstrong coupling regime -- enables efficient quantum state transfer (QST): benchmarking three protocols across the full $γτ$ parameter space, we find that STIRAP exploits the quasi-dark-state structure to achieve a quadratic infidelity floor $\mathcal{O}((γτ)^2)$, outperforming both SWAP (linear error $\mathcal{O}(γτ)$) and wavepacket engineering for $γτ\lesssim 1.44$, even in regimes where retardation cannot be neglected. These results establish photon-echo synchronization as an engineering resource for quantum state transfer, with DDE modeling providing the exact analytical predictions needed to design and optimize short-link experiments on current circuit-QED hardware. |
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| spellingShingle | Photon-echo synchronization and quantum state transfer in short quantum links Jiang, Hong Barahona-Pascual, Carlos García-Ripoll, Juan José Quantum Physics The short quantum link regime, where the photon travel time $τ$ is comparable to the emitter lifetime $1/γ$, is experimentally relevant but theoretically underexplored: existing few-mode descriptions lose validity as retardation and multimode effects become significant. Using a Delay Differential Equation (DDE) framework that admits exact analytical solutions from the single-mode cavity limit to the multimode waveguide continuum, we show that emitters coupled to a short link spontaneously lock into self-synchronized Rabi oscillations driven by coherent photon echoes, breaking the link's discrete time-displacement symmetry. The resulting spectral structure -- persistent quasi-dark states and vacuum Rabi splitting, including in the superstrong coupling regime -- enables efficient quantum state transfer (QST): benchmarking three protocols across the full $γτ$ parameter space, we find that STIRAP exploits the quasi-dark-state structure to achieve a quadratic infidelity floor $\mathcal{O}((γτ)^2)$, outperforming both SWAP (linear error $\mathcal{O}(γτ)$) and wavepacket engineering for $γτ\lesssim 1.44$, even in regimes where retardation cannot be neglected. These results establish photon-echo synchronization as an engineering resource for quantum state transfer, with DDE modeling providing the exact analytical predictions needed to design and optimize short-link experiments on current circuit-QED hardware. |
| title | Photon-echo synchronization and quantum state transfer in short quantum links |
| topic | Quantum Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.19064 |