Cavity state manipulation using a dispersively coupled qubit

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Abstract

The large available Hilbert space and high coherence of cavity resonators makes them an interesting resource in quantum information processing. For example, several schemes exist to encode a logical qubit in such a harmonic oscillator in a way that would be protected against certain kinds of errors. Here we demonstrate a method to manipulate a cavity state using a far off-resonantly coupled qubit, using only linear controls and a gate we call the Selective Number Arbitrary Phase (SNAP) gate. This gate allows to impart an arbitrary phase on each Fock-state component of the cavity. We show how we can use these tools to correct for the effects of Kerr-evolution as well as how to create a single-photon Fock state. Our scheme can be generalized to arbitrary cavity state creation and even allows to construct arbitrary unitary operators to give universal control of the oscillator.

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Authors

  • Reinier W. Heeres

    • Yale University
    • Yale Univ
    • Departments of Applied Physics and Physics, Yale University

  • Brian M. Vlastakis

    • Yale University

  • Eric Holland

    • Departments of Applied Physics and Physics, Yale University
    • Yale Univ
    • Yale University

  • Stefan I. Krastanov

    • Yale Univ
    • Yale University

  • Victor V. Albert

    • Departments of Applied Physics and Physics, Yale University
    • Yale University

  • Chao Shen

    • Yale University

  • Liang Jiang

    • Yale University
    • Departments of Applied Physics and Physics, Yale University
    • Yale Univ
    • Department of Applied Physics, Yale University, USA
    • Department of Applied Physics, Yale University

  • Robert Schoelkopf

    • Yale University
    • Yale Univ
    • Departments of Applied Physics and Physics, Yale University
    • Department of Applied Physics, Yale University