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We have observed coherent time evolution of states in a multi-level quantum system, formed by a current-biased dc SQUID. The manipulation of the quantum states is achieved by resonant microwave pulses of flux. The number of quantum states…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Claudon , F. Balestro , F. W. J. Hekking , O. Buisson

Despite an apparent progress in implementing individual solid-state qubits, there have been no experimental reports so far on multi-bit gates required for building a real quantum computer. Here we report a new circuit comprising two coupled…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-20 Yu. A. Pashkin , T. Yamamoto , O. Astafiev , Y. Nakamura , D. V. Averin , J. S. Tsai

The origin of non-classical correlations is difficult to identify since the uncertainty principle requires that information obtained about one observable invariably results in the disturbance of any other non-commuting observable. Here,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-01 Holger F. Hofmann

In quantum mechanics, the process of measurement is a subtle interplay between extraction of information and disturbance of the state of the quantum system. A quantum non-demolition (QND) measurement minimizes this disturbance by using a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-25 A. Lupascu , S. Saito , T. Picot , P. C. de Groot , C. J. P. M. Harmans , J. E. Mooij

Quantum measurement of a solid-state qubit by a mesoscopic detector is of fundamental interest in quantum physics and an essential issue in quantum computing. In this work, by employing a unified quantum master equation approach constructed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Xin-Qi Li , Wen-Kai Zhang , Ping Cui , Jiushu Shao , Zhongshui Ma , YiJing Yan

We propose a solid-state experiment to study the process of continuous quantum measurement of a qubit state. The experiment would verify that an individual qubit stays coherent during the process of measurement (in contrast to the gradual…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Alexander N. Korotkov

We present a measurement protocol for a flux qubit coupled to a dc-Superconducting QUantum Interference Device (SQUID), representative of any two-state system with a controllable coupling to an harmonic oscillator quadrature, which consists…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-08-18 I. Serban , B. L. T. Plourde , F. K. Wilhelm

We analyze the crosstalk error mechanism in measurement of two capacitively coupled superconducting flux-biased phase qubits. The damped oscillations of the superconducting phase after the measurement of the first qubit may significantly…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-05-29 A. G. Kofman , Q. Zhang , J. M. Martinis , A. N. Korotkov

We describe and realize an experimental procedure for assessing the incompatibility of two qubit measurements. The experiment consists in a state discrimination task where either measurement is used according to some partial intermediate…

Although superconducting systems provide a promising platform for quantum computing, their networking poses a challenge as they cannot be interfaced to light---the medium used to send quantum signals through channels at room temperature. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-01 Ondřej Černotík , Klemens Hammerer

We investigate the continuous weak measurement of a solid-state qubit by single electron transistors in nonlinear response regime. It is found that the signal-to-noise ratio can violate the universal upper bound imposed quantum mechanically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 HuJun Jiao , Shi-Kuan Wang , Feng Li , Xin-Qi Li

We propose a fully operational framework to study the non-equilibrium thermodynamics of a quantum system $S$ that is coupled to a detector $D$ whose state is continuously monitored, allowing to single out individual quantum trajectories of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-30 P. G. Di Stefano , J. J. Alonso , E. Lutz , G. Falci , M. Paternostro

In quantum sensing and metrology, an important class of measurement is the continuous linear measurement, in which the detector is coupled to the system of interest linearly and continuously in time. One key aspect involved is the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-26 Haixing Miao

We calculate the noise spectrum of the electrical current in a quantum point contact which is used for continuous measurements of a two-level system (qubit). We generalize the previous results obtained for the regime of high transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Shnirman , D. Mozyrsky , I. Martin

Designing coherent processes is essential for developing quantum information technologies. We study coherent dynamics of two spatially separated electrons in a coupled semiconductor double quantum dot (DQD), in which various two-qubit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-05-09 Gou Shinkai , Toshiaki Hayashi , Takeshi Ota , Toshimasa Fujisawa

Generally, the measurement process consists in coupling a system to a detector that can give a continuous output. However, it may be interesting to use as a detector a system with a discrete spectrum, especially in view of applications to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-02-06 Antonio Di Lorenzo

We analyze the operation of a switching-based detector that probes a qubit's observable that does not commute with the qubit's Hamiltonian, leading to a nontrivial interplay between the measurement and free-qubit dynamics. In order to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-05-07 S. Ashhab , J. Q. You , Franco Nori

In the emerging field of quantum computation and quantum information, superconducting devices are promising candidates for the implementation of solid-state quantum bits or qubits. Single-qubit operations, direct coupling between two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 I. Chiorescu , P. Bertet , K. Semba , Y. Nakamura , C. J. P. M. Harmans , J. E. Mooij

We present a new model for the continuous measurement of a coupled quantum dot charge qubit. We model the effects of a realistic measurement, namely adding noise to, and filtering, the current through the detector. This is achieved by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Neil P. Oxtoby , P. Warszawski , H. M. Wiseman , He-Bi Sun , R. E. S. Polkinghorne

Optomechanical coupling between the motion of a mechanical oscillator and a cavity represents a new arena for experimental investigation of quantum effects on the mesoscopic and macroscopic scale.The motional sidebands of the output of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-26 E. B. Aranas , P. G. Z. Fonseca , P. F. Barker , T. S. Monteiro