Resolving photon number states in a superconducting circuit

Electromagnetic signals are always composed of photons, although in the circuit domain those signals are carried as voltages and currents on wires, and the discreteness of the photon's energy is usually not evident. However, by coupling a superconducting quantum bit (qubit) to signals on a microwave transmission line, it is possible to construct an integrated circuit in which the presence or absence of even a single photon can have a dramatic effect. Such a system can be described by circuit quantum electrodynamics (QED)-the circuit equivalent of cavity QED, where photons interact with atoms or quantum dots. Previously, circuit QED devices were shown to reach the resonant strong coupling regime, where a single qubit could absorb and re-emit a single photon many times. Here we report a circuit QED experiment in the strong dispersive limit, a new regime where a single photon has a large effect on the qubit without ever being absorbed. The hallmark of this strong dispersive regime is that the qubit transition energy can be resolved into a separate spectral line for each photon number state of the microwave field. The strength of each line is a measure of the probability of finding the corresponding photon number in the cavity. This effect is used to distinguish between coherent and thermal fields, and could be used to create a photon statistics analyser. As no photons are absorbed by this process, it should be possible to generate non-classical states of light by measurement and perform qubit-photon conditional logic, the basis of a logic bus for a quantum computer.     

控制开放超导量子电路系统中的几何量子关联冻结和量子相干性

本文研究了开放超导量子电路系统中,含时电磁场对两超导量子比特间的几何量子关联和量子相干性的影响. 我们发现,加入磁场之后,几何量子关联被冻结的现象会出现,并且冻结的时间会随着含时电磁场的加入而得到延长. 利用迹距离的方法,我们探讨了含时电磁场对超导量子比特与环境之间量子信息流动的影响,我们发现含时电磁场可以抑制环境的影响,降低超导量子比特与环境之间的量子信息流动.     

Generation of three-qubit entangled states using superconducting phase qubits

Entanglement is one of the key resources required for quantum computation, so the experimental creation and measurement of entangled states is of crucial importance for various physical implementations of quantum computers. In superconducting devices, two-qubit entangled states have been demonstrated and used to show violations of Bell's inequality and to implement simple quantum algorithms. Unlike the two-qubit case, where all maximally entangled two-qubit states are equivalent up to local changes of basis, three qubits can be entangled in two fundamentally different ways. These are typified by the states |GHZ>= (|000+?|111>)/ sqrt [2] and |W>= (|001>?+?|010>?+?|100>)/ sqrt [3]. Here we demonstrate the operation of three coupled superconducting phase qubits and use them to create and measure |GHZ> and |W>states. The states are fully characterized using quantum state tomography and are shown to satisfy entanglement witnesses, confirming that they are indeed examples of three-qubit entanglement and are not separable into mixtures of two-qubit entanglement.     

Strong coupling of a single photon to a superconducting qubit using circuit quantum electrodynamics

The interaction of matter and light is one of the fundamental processes occurring in nature, and its most elementary form is realized when a single atom interacts with a single photon. Reaching this regime has been a major focus of research in atomic physics and quantum optics for several decades and has generated the field of cavity quantum electrodynamics. Here we perform an experiment in which a superconducting two-level system, playing the role of an artificial atom, is coupled to an on-chip cavity consisting of a superconducting transmission line resonator. We show that the strong coupling regime can be attained in a solid-state system, and we experimentally observe the coherent interaction of a superconducting two-level system with a single microwave photon. The concept of circuit quantum electrodynamics opens many new possibilities for studying the strong interaction of light and matter. This system can also be exploited for quantum information processing and quantum communication and may lead to new approaches for single photon generation and detection.     

利用超导量子干涉仪制备N比特团簇态（英文）

利用两个超导量子干涉仪与腔场的相互作用,提出一种实现标准两比特量子相位门的方案。利用构造的两比特相位门,还提出了一种制备N比特团簇态的方案。在此方案中,量子信息被编码在两个超导量子干涉仪的相对稳定的基态上。在两个超导量子干涉仪与单模腔场的相互作用过程中,由于超导量子干涉比特的激发态被绝热地消去,激发态所引起的消相干得到了有效的抑制。此外,还讨论方案的实验可行性。     

Observation of the dynamical Casimir effect in a superconducting circuit

One of the most surprising predictions of modern quantum theory is that the vacuum of space is not empty. In fact, quantum theory predicts that it teems with virtual particles flitting in and out of existence. Although initially a curiosity, it was quickly realized that these vacuum fluctuations had measurable consequences--for instance, producing the Lamb shift of atomic spectra and modifying the magnetic moment of the electron. This type of renormalization due to vacuum fluctuations is now central to our understanding of nature. However, these effects provide indirect evidence for the existence of vacuum fluctuations. From early on, it was discussed whether it might be possible to more directly observe the virtual particles that compose the quantum vacuum. Forty years ago, it was suggested that a mirror undergoing relativistic motion could convert virtual photons into directly observable real photons. The phenomenon, later termed the dynamical Casimir effect, has not been demonstrated previously. Here we observe the dynamical Casimir effect in a superconducting circuit consisting of a coplanar transmission line with a tunable electrical length. The rate of change of the electrical length can be made very fast (a substantial fraction of the speed of light) by modulating the inductance of a superconducting quantum interference device at high frequencies (>10 gigahertz). In addition to observing the creation of real photons, we detect two-mode squeezing in the emitted radiation, which is a signature of the quantum character of the generation process.     

Preparation and measurement of three-qubit entanglement in a superconducting circuit

Traditionally, quantum entanglement has been central to foundational discussions of quantum mechanics. The measurement of correlations between entangled particles can have results at odds with classical behaviour. These discrepancies grow exponentially with the number of entangled particles. With the ample experimental confirmation of quantum mechanical predictions, entanglement has evolved from a philosophical conundrum into a key resource for technologies such as quantum communication and computation. Although entanglement in superconducting circuits has been limited so far to two qubits, the extension of entanglement to three, eight and ten qubits has been achieved among spins, ions and photons, respectively. A key question for solid-state quantum information processing is whether an engineered system could display the multi-qubit entanglement necessary for quantum error correction, which starts with tripartite entanglement. Here, using a circuit quantum electrodynamics architecture, we demonstrate deterministic production of three-qubit Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) states with fidelity of 88 per cent, measured with quantum state tomography. Several entanglement witnesses detect genuine three-qubit entanglement by violating biseparable bounds by 830?±?80 per cent. We demonstrate the first step of basic quantum error correction, namely the encoding of a logical qubit into a manifold of GHZ-like states using a repetition code. The integration of this encoding with decoding and error-correcting steps in a feedback loop will be the next step for quantum computing with integrated circuits.     

Demonstration of controlled-NOT quantum gates on a pair of superconducting quantum bits

Quantum computation requires quantum logic gates that use the interaction within pairs of quantum bits (qubits) to perform conditional operations. Superconducting qubits may offer an attractive route towards scalable quantum computing. In previous experiments on coupled superconducting qubits, conditional gate behaviour and entanglement were demonstrated. Here we demonstrate selective execution of the complete set of four different controlled-NOT (CNOT) quantum logic gates, by applying microwave pulses of appropriate frequency to a single pair of coupled flux qubits. All two-qubit computational basis states and their superpositions are used as input, while two independent single-shot SQUID detectors measure the output state, including qubit-qubit correlations. We determined the gate's truth table by directly measuring the state transfer amplitudes and by acquiring the relevant quantum phase shift using a Ramsey-like interference experiment. The four conditional gates result from the symmetry of the qubits in the pair: either qubit can assume the role of control or target, and the gate action can be conditioned on either the 0-state or the 1-state. These gates are now sufficiently characterized to be used in quantum algorithms, and together form an efficient set of versatile building blocks.     

统一超混沌系统的构建与电路实现

针对统一混沌系统对应的超混沌系统实现问题,利用增加系统维数和线性反馈的方法,以统一混沌系统为基础,构建了一类四维自治统一超混沌系统。对系统平衡点的特性进行分析并计算了系统的分形维数,根据系统的Lyapunov指数谱和分岔图分析系统的变化范围。随着系统的变化,统一超混沌系统包含了3个子系统:广义超混沌Lorenz系统、超混沌Lu¨系统和广义超混沌Chen系统。与现有的超混沌系统比较,新的统一超混沌系统具有更大的最大Lyapunov指数。用数字信号处理(DSP)芯片对几个典型的统一超混沌系统进行硬件实现,并验证了超混沌奇异吸引子的存在。     

量子计算与量子电路仿真技术

采用量子计算研究中最具代表性的电路模型模拟量子计算过程,实现Deutsch算法和量子Fourier变换的演算,构建了量子信息与计算的仿真平台雏形.实验平台采用量子寄存器结构作为存储媒介,在空间上优于矩阵形式,运算过程采用位操作避免了大量乘法运算的时间,实验结果可直接被其他重要量子算法所引用.采用新型结构减少了时间和空间耗费,运算过程更加简单直观,为平台的进一步完善提供了基础.     

基于腔场耦合的超导比特的量子计算(英文)

利用超导量子比特实现量子计算在世界范围内备受理论界和实验界的关注.在这一体系中实现量子计算的明显好处是具有非常好的操控技术及容易集成化.过去10年实验的快速突破验证了体系的这些优势.在调节不同比特耦合方面,利用微波腔场耦合比特的平台已经建立起来.该综述将重点介绍如何形成等效的超导电荷比特、它和腔场的耦合,以及利用腔场耦合多个比特等内容.     

借助于推广Bell态实现两体量子态隐形传态

两比特量子隐形传态的实现直接关系到量子计算机的实现,因此提出一个任意两比特量子态的隐形传态方案,发送者能成功地将此量子态几率地传送给接收者.此方案中,16个推广的非最大纠缠Bell态(简称G态)之一充当量子信道.发送者通过实行推广的Bell态测量(G态测量),接收者通过引入一个辅助粒子并实施适当的么正变换和单粒子测量,能将此任意两比特量子态以一定的几率发送给接收者.此种隐形传态方案的成功几率由量子信道系数绝对值的最小值所决定.

Abstract：

Two-qubit quantum teleportation is closely related to quantum computation, so a teleportation protocol in which an arbitrary bipartite quantum state is perfectly teleported probabilistically from sender to receiver is proposed. One of 16 generalized non-maximally entangled Bell states (G states for simplicity) functions as quantum channel. The teleportation can be successfully realized with a certain probability if sender performs generalized Bell state measurements (G measurements) and receiver introduces an auxiliary particle and operates appropriate unitary transformations and single-qubit measurements. The probability of successful teleportation is determined by the smallest one among the coefficients' absolute values of the quantum channel.     

Atomic physics and quantum optics using superconducting circuits

Superconducting circuits based on Josephson junctions exhibit macroscopic quantum coherence and can behave like artificial atoms. Recent technological advances have made it possible to implement atomic-physics and quantum-optics experiments on a chip using these artificial atoms. This Review presents a brief overview of the progress achieved so far in this rapidly advancing field. We not only discuss phenomena analogous to those in atomic physics and quantum optics with natural atoms, but also highlight those not occurring in natural atoms. In addition, we summarize several prospective directions in this emerging interdisciplinary field.     

高温直流超导量子干涉器心磁图仪的研制

研制了用于心磁测量的直流高温量子干涉器,并建立了单通道高温直流超导量子干涉器心磁图仪. 根据临床诊断标准,在磁屏蔽室内依次调节无磁床的位置,采集了人体胸前平面5×5正方格子上各点的心磁数据. 实验结果表明,健康人与心脏病患者的心脏磁场信号存在明显差异. 利用该系统,可为心脏病的临床诊断提供有价值的实验数据.     

Design and implementation of control system for superconducting RSFQ circuit

The superconducting rapid single flux quantum(RSFQ) integrated circuit is a promising solution for overcoming speed and power bottlenecks in high-performance computing systems in the postMoore era. This paper presents an architecture designed to improve the speed and power limitations of high-performance computing systems using superconducting technology. Since superconducting microprocessors, which operate at cryogenic temperatures, require support from semiconductor circuits, the proposed desi...     

Realization of three-qubit quantum error correction with superconducting circuits

Quantum computers could be used to solve certain problems exponentially faster than classical computers, but are challenging to build because of their increased susceptibility to errors. However, it is possible to detect and correct errors without destroying coherence, by using quantum error correcting codes. The simplest of these are three-quantum-bit (three-qubit) codes, which map a one-qubit state to an entangled three-qubit state; they can correct any single phase-flip or bit-flip error on one of the three qubits, depending on the code used. Here we demonstrate such phase- and bit-flip error correcting codes in a superconducting circuit. We encode a quantum state, induce errors on the qubits and decode the error syndrome--a quantum state indicating which error has occurred--by reversing the encoding process. This syndrome is then used as the input to a three-qubit gate that corrects the primary qubit if it was flipped. As the code can recover from a single error on any qubit, the fidelity of this process should decrease only quadratically with error probability. We implement the correcting three-qubit gate (known as a conditional-conditional NOT, or Toffoli, gate) in 63 nanoseconds, using an interaction with the third excited state of a single qubit. We find 85?±?1 per cent fidelity to the expected classical action of this gate, and 78?±?1 per cent fidelity to the ideal quantum process matrix. Using this gate, we perform a single pass of both quantum bit- and phase-flip error correction and demonstrate the predicted first-order insensitivity to errors. Concatenation of these two codes in a nine-qubit device would correct arbitrary single-qubit errors. In combination with recent advances in superconducting qubit coherence times, this could lead to scalable quantum technology.     

Tavis-Cummings模型中的量子态平均保真度

运用全量子理论,研究了Tavis-Cummings模型中量子态平均保真度的演化特性,对原子和光场的初态以及两原子的关联程度对平均保真度的影响进行了研究.结果表明,原子、光场和系统的平均保真度依赖于初态时2个原子处在基态的几率以及光场处于真空态的几率;初态两原子在基态无关联,光场处于真空态,体系不失真.     

量子点中电子态的能谱结构

本文研究二维三电子系统的能谱随禁闭势变化的特征，发现禁闭势很强时，能谱成为独立粒子运动谱。当禁闭势较弱时，电子之间的强关联导致了魔角动量的出现，而系统的结构主要由内禀节面决定。     

模板技术在量子逻辑电路优化中的应用

为了提高量子逻辑电路的优化技术,减小量子逻辑电路的代价,对现有的模板技术进行了研究与分析,发现Maslov等人的模板并不完整,体现在模板控制线的寻找不完全.通过引入模板控制线库的概念,重构了模板,重构后的模板并不实现恒等的函数功能,但通过模板生成法则,可以动态生成更多的有效模板.同时给出了利用该方法优化量子逻辑电路的算法.数值实验结果表明,应用重构后的模板优化所有的3×3可逆电路,电路门数量均值减小到6.22.该方法在利用模板优化量子逻辑电路方面具有更高的效率和匹配成功率.     

利用耦合超导量子比特实现受控U门

运用两量子比特非局域操作的几何表示理论,提出了利用射频脉冲作用下的耦合超导量子比特构建受控逻辑门(受控U门)的一个理论方案,并进一步推导出在电容耦合和自感耦合系统中构建受控U门时,其哈密顿量中的拉比频率所需要满足的条件.最后通过两量子比特控制相位门的实现说明该方案的可行性.