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A crucial component of photonic quantum information processing platforms is the ability to modulate, route, convert, and switch quantum states of light noiselessly with low insertion loss. For instance, a high-speed, low-loss optical switch…

We present a theoretical and experimental study of superconducting ring resonators as an initial step toward their implementation in superconducting electronics and quantum technologies, with promising applications including superconducting…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-01-16 Zhenyuan Sun , Stafford Withington , Christopher Thomas , Songyuan Zhao

By harnessing quantum superposition and entanglement, remarkable progress has sprouted over the past three decades from different areas of research in communication computation and simulation. To further improve the processing ability of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-01-12 Ye Yang , Yaqing Jin , Xiao Xiang , Wei Li , Tao Liu , Shougang Zhang , Ruifang Dong , Ming Li

Quantum state tomography of weak microwave signals is an important part of many protocols in the field of quantum information processing with superconducting circuits. This step typically relies on an accurate $\textit{in-situ}$ estimation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-28 S. Gandorfer , M. Renger , W. K. Yam , F. Fesquet , A. Marx , R. Gross , K. G. Fedorov

Small perturbations to systems near critical points of quantum phase transitions can induce drastic changes in the system properties. Here I show that this sensitivity can be exploited for weak-signal detection applications. This is done by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-08-15 Mankei Tsang

A number of current approaches to quantum and neuromorphic computing use superconductors as the basis of their platform or as a measurement component, and will need to operate at cryogenic temperatures. Semiconductor systems are typically…

Microwave storage and retrieval are essential capabilities for superconducting quantum circuits. Here, we demonstrate an on-chip multimode resonator in which strong parametric modulation induces a large and tunable normal-mode splitting…

With the rapid development of microwave photonics, which has expanded to numerous applications of commercial importance, eliminating the emerging bottlenecks becomes of vital importance. For example, as the main branch of microwave…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-31 Yaqing Jin , Ye Yang , Huibo Hong , Xiao Xiang , Runai Quan , Tao Liu , Shougang Zhang , Ninghua Zhu , Ming Li , Ruifang Dong

Superconducting microresonators have been successfully utilized as detection elements for a wide variety of applications. With multiplexing factors exceeding 1,000 detectors per transmission line, they are the most scalable low-temperature…

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…

Superconducting circuits provide a versatile and controllable platform for studies of fundamental quantum phenomena as well as for quantum technology applications. A conventional technique to read out the state of a quantum circuit or to…

Quantum tunneling is the phenomenon that makes superconducting circuits "quantum". Recently, there has been a renewed interest in using quantum tunneling in phase space of a Kerr parametric oscillator as a resource for quantum information…

Single photon-level quantum frequency conversion has recently been demonstrated using silicon nitride microring resonators. The resonance enhancement offered by such systems enables high-efficiency translation of quantum states of light…

Optics · Physics 2016-08-10 Z. Vernon , M. Liscidini , J. E. Sipe

Using an analytically solvable model, we show that a qubit array-based detector allows to achieve the fundamental Heisenberg limit in detecting single photons. In case of superconducting qubits, this opens new opportunities for quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-02 P. Navez , A. G. Balanov , S. E. Savel'ev , A. M. Zagoskin

Manipulating the electromagnetic spectrum at the single-photon level is fundamental for quantum experiments. In the visible and infrared range, this can be accomplished with atomic quantum emitters, and with superconducting qubits such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-14 Alexander Anferov , Fanghui Wan , Shannon P. Harvey , Jonathan Simon , David I. Schuster

A semiclassical simulation approach is presented for studying quantum noise in large-scale photonic circuits incorporating an ideal Kerr nonlinearity. A circuit solver is used to generate matrices defining a set of stochastic differential…

Understanding complex quantum matter presents a central challenge in condensed matter physics. The difficulty lies in the exponential scaling of the Hilbert space with the system size, making solutions intractable for both analytical and…

Quantum microwave photonics aims at generating, routing, and manipulating propagating quantum microwave fields in the spirit of optical photonics. To this end, the strong nonlinearities of superconducting quantum circuits can be used to…

Time-dependent linear coupling between macroscopic quantum resonator modes generates both a parametric amplification also known as a {}"squeezing operation" and a beam splitter operation, analogous to quantum optical systems. These…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-07 L. Tian , M. S. Allman , R. W. Simmonds

The study of quantum heat transport in superconducting circuits is significant for further understanding the connection between quantum mechanics and thermodynamics, and for possible applications for quantum information. The first…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-27 Christoforus Dimas Satrya , Andrew Guthrie , Ilari Mäkinen , Jukka P. Pekola