Cloaking a qubit in a cavity
Abstract
Cavity quantum electrodynamics (QED) uses a cavity to engineer the mode structure of the vacuum electromagnetic field such as to enhance the interaction between light and matter. Exploiting these ideas in solid-state systems has lead to circuit QED which has emerged as a valuable tool to explore the rich physics of quantum optics and as a platform for quantum computation. Here we introduce a simple approach to further engineer the light-matter interaction in a driven cavity by controllably decoupling a qubit from the cavity's photon population, effectively cloaking the qubit from the cavity. This is realized by driving the qubit with an external tone tailored to destructively interfere with the cavity field, leaving the qubit to interact with a cavity which appears to be in the vacuum state. Our experiment demonstrates how qubit cloaking can be exploited to cancel ac-Stark shift and measurement-induced dephasing, and to accelerate qubit readout.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2211.05758,
title = {Cloaking a qubit in a cavity},
author = {Cristóbal Lledó and Rémy Dassonneville and Adrien Moulinas and Joachim Cohen and Ross Shillito and Audrey Bienfait and Benjamin Huard and Alexandre Blais},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.05758},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
This version of the article has been accepted for publication, after peer review but is not the Version of Record and does not reflect post-acceptance improvements, or any corrections. The Version of Record is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-42060-5