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Macroscopic Bell state between a millimeter-sized spin system and a superconducting qubit

Quantum Physics 2024-04-15 v2

Abstract

Entanglement is a fundamental property in quantum mechanics that systems share inseparable quantum correlation regardless of their mutual distances. Owing to the fundamental significance and versatile applications, the generation of quantum entanglement between {\it macroscopic} systems has been a focus of current research. Here we report on the deterministic generation and tomography of the macroscopically entangled Bell state in a hybrid quantum system containing a millimeter-sized spin system (1×1019\sim 1\times10^{19} atoms) and a micrometer-sized superconducting qubit. The deterministic generation is realized by coupling the macroscopic spin system and the qubit via a microwave cavity. Also, we develop a joint tomography approach to confirming the deterministic generation of the Bell state, which gives a generation fidelity of 0.90±0.010.90\pm0.01. Our work makes the macroscopic spin system the {\it largest} system (in the sense of atom number) capable of generating the maximally entangled quantum state.

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@article{arxiv.2306.09677,
  title  = {Macroscopic Bell state between a millimeter-sized spin system and a superconducting qubit},
  author = {Da Xu and Xu-Ke Gu and Yuan-Chao Weng and He-Kang Li and Yi-Pu Wang and Shi-Yao Zhu and J. Q. You},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.09677},
  year   = {2024}
}

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8 pages, 5 figures

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