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We introduce a circuit quantum electrodynamical setup for a "single-photon" transistor. In our approach photons propagate in two open transmission lines that are coupled via two interacting transmon qubits. The interaction is such that no…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-09-24 Lukas Neumeier , Martin Leib , Michael J. Hartmann

Deterministic quantum interactions between single photons and single quantum emitters are a vital building block towards the distribution of quantum information between remote systems. Deterministic photon-atom state transfer has been…

We propose a simple interaction protocol to be implemented on a scalable quantum network, in which the quantum nodes consist of qubit systems confined in cavities. The nodes are deterministically coupled by transmission and reflection of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-03 I. Cohen , K. Mølmer

Quantum transmission lines are a central to superconducting and hybrid quantum computing. Parallel to these developments are those of left-handed meta-materials. They have a wide variety of applications in photonics from the microwave to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-11-08 Daniel J. Egger , Frank K. Wilhelm

We theoretically investigate the implementation of a quantum phase gate in a system constituted by a single atom inside an optical cavity, based on the electromagnetically induced transparency effect. Firstly we show that a probe pulse can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 Halyne S. Borges , Celso J. Villas-Bôas

Electromagnetic signals are always composed of photons, though 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…

Hybrid qubits have recently drawn intensive attention in quantum computing. We here propose a method to implement a universal controlled-phase gate of two hybrid qubits via two three-dimensional (3D) microwave cavities coupled to a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 Chui-Ping Yang , Zhen-Fei Zheng , Yu Zhang

We present a fully passive method for implementing a quantum phase gate between two photons travelling in a one-dimensional wave guide. The gate is based on chirally coupled emitters in a three-level $V$ configuration, which only interact…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-27 Björn Schrinski , Miren Lamaison , Anders S. Sørensen

The ability to control the direction of scattered light in integrated devices is crucial to provide the flexibility and scalability for a wide range of on-chip applications, such as integrated photonics, quantum information processing and…

Quantum communication between remote chips is essential for realizing large-scale superconducting quantum computers. For such communication, itinerant microwave photons propagating through transmission lines offer a promising approach.…

We present a scheme for implementing a high-fidelity non-linear phase shift on a photonic state. The scheme is based on repeated scattering off a two-level quantum emitter embedded in a chiral or one-sided waveguide. The waveguide is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-12 Love A. Pettersson , Victor R. Christiansen , Klaus Mølmer , Anders S. Sørensen

We propose a novel hybrid quantum gate between an atom and a microwave photon in a superconducting coplanar waveguide cavity by exploiting the strong resonant microwave coupling between adjacent Rydberg states. Using experimentally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 J. D. Pritchard , J. A. Isaacs , M. A. Beck , R. McDermott , M. Saffman

Scaling up a superconducting quantum computer will likely require quantum communication between remote chips, which can be implemented using an itinerant microwave photon in a transmission line. To realize high-fidelity communication, it is…

Engineering deterministic photonic gates with simple resources is one of the long-standing challenges in photonic quantum computing. Here, we design a passive conditional gate between co-propagating photons using an array of only two-level…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-13 Tomás Levy-Yeyati , Carlos Vega , Tomás Ramos , Alejandro González-Tudela

We study quantum state tomography, entanglement detection, and channel noise reconstruction of propagating quantum microwaves via dual-path methods. The presented schemes make use of the following key elements: propagation channels, beam…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-01-09 R. Di Candia , E. P. Menzel , L. Zhong , F. Deppe , A. Marx , R. Gross , E. Solano

We realize quantum gates for path qubits with a high-speed, polarization-independent and tunable beam splitter. Two electro-optical modulators act in a Mach-Zehnder interferometer as high-speed phase shifters and rapidly tune its splitting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Xiao-song Ma , Stefan Zotter , Nuray Tetik , Angie Qarry , Thomas Jennewein , Anton Zeilinger

The exchange of virtual photons between quantum optical emitters in cavity QED or quantum nanophotonic setups induces interactions between them which can be harnessed for quantum information and simulation purposes. So far, these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-05 Cristian Tabares , Erez Zohar , Alejandro González-Tudela

Single photon interference due to passage through a periodic grating is considered in a novel proposal for processing D-dimensional quantum systems (quDits) encoded in the spatial degrees of freedom of light. We show that free space…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-08 Osvaldo Jiménez Farías , Fernando de Melo , Pérola Milman , Stephen P. Walborn

Quantum emitters coupled to nanophotonic structures are an excellent platform for controllable single-photon scattering. The tunable light-matter interaction enables the construction of a single-photon switch -- a device that can route a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 Mateusz Duda , Nicholas J. Martin , Eve O. Mills , Luke R. Wilson , Pieter Kok

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…