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The realization of a high-efficiency microwave single photon detector is a long-standing problem in the field of microwave quantum optics. Here we propose a quantum non-demolition, high-efficiency photon detector that can readily be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-23 Baptiste Royer , Arne L. Grimsmo , Alexandre Choquette-Poitevin , Alexandre Blais

Single photon detection is a requisite technique in quantum-optics experiments in both the optical and the microwave domains. However, the energy of microwave quanta are four to five orders of magnitude less than their optical counterpart,…

Single-photon detection is an essential component in many experiments in quantum optics, but remains challenging in the microwave domain. We realize a quantum non-demolition detector for propagating microwave photons and characterize its…

Single-photon detectors are an essential part of the toolbox of modern quantum optics for implementing quantum technologies and enabling tests of fundamental physics. The low energy of microwave photons, the natural signal path for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 Lukas Danner , Max Hofheinz , Nicolas Bourlet , Ciprian Padurariu , Joachim Ankerhold , Björn Kubala

High efficiency single photon detection is an interesting problem for many areas of physics, including low temperature measurement, quantum information science and particle physics. For optical photons, there are many examples of devices…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-06-25 M. L. Jones , G. J. Wilkes , B. T. H. Varcoe

Single photon detectors are key for time-correlated photon counting applications [1] and enable a host of emerging optical quantum information technologies [2]. So far, the leading approach for continuous and efficient single-photon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-04 Waqar Khan , Patrick P. Potts , Sebastian Lehmann , Claes Thelander , Kimberly A. Dick , Peter Samuelsson , Ville F. Maisi

Single-photon detection possibility is a fundamental requirement for quantum technologies, including communication, computing and sensing. To achieve scalability and practical deployment, increasing attention is being directed toward…

While detection of optical photons is today achieved with very high efficiencies, the detection of microwave fields at the photon level still poses non-trivial experimental challenges. In this Letter we propose a model of microwave…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-16 Shabir Barzanjeh , M. C. de Oliveira , Stefano Pirandola

We propose a nonabsorbing microwave single-photon detector that uses an artificial atom as a coherent interaction mediator between a traveling photon and a high-Q resonator, fully exploiting the knowledge of the photon's arrival time. Our…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-13 Ivan Iakoupov , Yuichiro Matsuzaki , William J. Munro , Shiro Saito

Ultrafast, high quantum efficiency single photon detectors are among the most sought-after elements in modern quantum optics and quantum communication. High photon detection efficiency is essential for scalable measurement-based quantum…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-30 W. Pernice , C. Schuck , O. Minaeva , M. Li , G. N. Goltsman , A. V. Sergienko , H. X. Tang

The ability to nondestructively detect the presence of a single, traveling photon has been a long-standing goal in optics, with applications in quantum information and measurement. Realising such a detector is complicated by the fact that…

Photon detectors are an elementary tool to measure electromagnetic waves at the quantum limit and are heavily demanded in the emerging quantum technologies such as communication, sensing, and computing. Of particular interest is a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 S. Kono , K. Koshino , Y. Tabuchi , A. Noguchi , Y. Nakamura

Single photon detection is a key resource for sensing at the quantum limit and the enabling technology for measurement based quantum computing. Photon detection at optical frequencies relies on irreversible photo-assisted ionization of…

In this work we propose a microwave photon detector which successfully reaches 100% efficiency with only one absorber. Our design consists of a metastable quantum circuit coupled to a semi-infinite transmission line which performs highly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-22 B. Peropadre , G. Romero , G. Johansson , C. M. Wilson , E. Solano , J. J. García-Ripoll

We propose a scheme for continuous detection of itinerant microwave photons in circuit quantum electrodynamics. In the proposed device, a superconducting qubit is coupled dispersively to two resonators: one is used to form an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-24 Kazuki Koshino , Zhirong Lin , Kunihiro Inomata , Tsuyoshi Yamamoto , Yasunobu Nakamura

Single photon detectors are indispensable tools in optics, from fundamental measurements to quantum information processing. The ability of superconducting nanowire single photon detectors to detect single photons with unprecedented…

Within a circuit quantum electrodynamics architecture, we theoretically investigate the detection of a single propagating microwave photon traveling through a resonant microwave cavity dispersively interacting with a double quantum dot…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Stephanie Matern , Alberto Biella , Pasquale Scarlino , Iacopo Carusotto , Gianluca Rastelli

We demonstrate a single-photon detector operating in the microwave domain, based on photo-assisted quasiparticle tunneling events that poison a superconducting island. The detection relies on continuously monitoring the island's charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-24 Julien Basset , Ognjen Stanisavljević , Julien Gabelli , Marco Aprili , Jérôme Estève

Single-photon detectors are ubiquitous in quantum information science and quantum sensing. They are key enabling technologies for numerous scientific discoveries and fundamental tests of quantum optics. Photon-number-revolving detectors are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-29 Risheng Cheng , Yiyu Zhou , Sihao Wang , Mohan Shen , Towsif Taher , Hong X. Tang

All optical detectors to date annihilate photons upon detection, thus excluding repeated measurements. Here, we demonstrate a robust photon detection scheme which does not rely on absorption. Instead, an incoming photon is reflected off an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-16 Andreas Reiserer , Stephan Ritter , Gerhard Rempe
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