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Counting statistics of ultra-broadband microwave photons

Quantum Physics 2024-12-10 v4 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

We report measurements of counting statistics, average and variance, of microwave photons of ill-defined frequency : bichromatic photons, i.e. photons involving two well separated frequencies, and "white" broadband photons. Our setup allows for the analysis of single photonic modes of arbitrary waveform over the 1-10 GHz frequency range. The photon statistics are obtained by on-the-fly numerical calculation from the sampled time-dependent voltage. Using an ac+dc biased tunnel junction as a source of quantum microwave, we report an ultra-wide squeezing spectrum representing a competitive source for entanglement generation (up to 0.9 billion measured entangled bits per second) easily achievable experimentally. We also report the observation of quantum steering by the tunnel junction, and show how the presence of squeezing of a broadband mode implies the existence of entanglement between two modes it encompasses.

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@article{arxiv.2404.07868,
  title  = {Counting statistics of ultra-broadband microwave photons},
  author = {Simon Bolduc Beaudoin and Edouard Pinsolle and Bertrand Reulet},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.07868},
  year   = {2024}
}

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14 pages, 13 figures, on going peer review