Grid states for encoding and stabilizing a logical qubit in superconducting circuits (Part 2)

ORAL

Abstract

Protecting quantum information requires encoding a quantum bit of information into a space with a large number of dimensions. To this end, Gottesman Kitaev and Preskill (GKP) proposed to use a single harmonic oscillator as an alternative to an ensemble of many two-level systems. In this scheme, the information is encoded in grid states of the oscillator. The dispersive interaction between the oscillator and an ancillary two-level system is sufficient to create and stabilize these non-local states, provided that the interaction strength is periodically modulated in time. In this talk, I will show how to engineer such a modulated interaction and I will present our experimental progress towards the creation and stabilization of GKP grid states.

*Work supported by ARO, AFOSR and YINQE

Presenters

  • Steven Touzard

    • Yale Univ
    • Applied Physics, Yale University

Authors

  • Steven Touzard

    • Yale Univ
    • Applied Physics, Yale University
  • Alec Eickbusch

    • Yale Univ
  • Phillipe Campagne-Ibarcq

    • Yale Univ
    • Applied Physics, Yale University
  • Evan Zalys-Geller

    • Yale Univ
  • Nicholas Frattini

    • Yale Univ
    • Applied Physics, Yale University
  • Volodymyr Sivak

    • Yale Univ
  • Shruti Puri

    • Yale Univ
    • Department of Applied Physics, Yale University
    • Applied Physics, Yale University
  • Mazyar Mirrahimi

    • Yale Univ
    • Quantic Team, INRIA Paris
    • QUANTIC, INRIA Paris
    • QUANTIC, INRIA, Paris; YQI, Yale University
    • INRIA Paris and Yale University
  • Shyam Shankar

    • Yale Univ
    • Applied Physics, Yale University
    • Department of Applied Physics, Yale University
  • Michel H. Devoret

    • Yale Univ
    • Applied Physics, Yale University
    • Department of Applied Physics, Yale University
    • Department of Applied Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA