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Continuous-variable square-ladder cluster states in a microwave frequency comb

Quantum Physics 2025-05-12 v2

Abstract

We describe an experiment demonstrating the generation of three independent square-ladder continuous-variable cluster states with up to 94 qumodes of a microwave frequency comb. This entanglement structure at a large scale is realized by injecting vacuum fluctuations into a Josephson Parametric Amplifier pumped by three coherent signals around twice its resonance frequency, each having a particular well-defined phase relation. We reach up to 1.4 dB of squeezing of the nullifier which verifies the cluster state on the square ladder graph. Our results are consistent with a more familiar measure of two-mode squeezing, where we find up to 5.42 dB for one pump, and up to 1 dB for three pumps.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2411.00599,
  title  = {Continuous-variable square-ladder cluster states in a microwave frequency comb},
  author = {Fabio Lingua and J. C. Rivera Hernández and Michele Cortinovis and David B. Haviland},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.00599},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

5 pages, 4 figures (main article) and 7 pages, 6 figures (suppl. material)

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