Realizing a fully connected network of quantum processors requires the ability to distribute quantum entanglement. For distant processing nodes, this can be achieved by generating, routing, and capturing spatially entangled itinerant photons. In this work, we demonstrate the deterministic generation of such photons using superconducting transmon qubits that are directly coupled to a waveguide. In particular, we generate two-photon N00N states and show that the state and spatial entanglement of the emitted photons are tunable via the qubit frequencies. Using quadrature amplitude detection, we reconstruct the moments and correlations of the photonic modes and demonstrate state preparation fidelities of 84%. Our results provide a path towards realizing quantum communication and teleportation protocols using itinerant photons generated by quantum interference within a waveguide quantum electrodynamics architecture.
@article{arxiv.2003.07300,
title = {Generating Spatially Entangled Itinerant Photons with Waveguide Quantum Electrodynamics},
author = {Bharath Kannan and Daniel Campbell and Francisca Vasconcelos and Roni Winik and David Kim and Morten Kjaergaard and Philip Krantz and Alexander Melville and Bethany M. Niedzielski and Jonilyn Yoder and Terry P. Orlando and Simon Gustavsson and William D. Oliver},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.07300},
year = {2020}
}