Bidirectional Generation of Itinerant Microwave Photons with Waveguide Quantum Electrodynamics (Part 2)

ORAL

Abstract

A node that can communicate quantum information between processors is a necessary component of a general architecture for a large-scale, fully-connected quantum network. Quantum information is generally communicated between nodes via propagating (itinerant) photons, or via a bus coupler that coherently couples adjacent nodes. Protocols involving itinerant photons require lossy components such as microwave circulators, which limit the communication fidelity and fix the direction of communication between nodes. The hardware requirements for protocols involving bus couplers limit node connectivity. In this work, we present progress towards realizing a device that can bidirectionally emit and absorb itinerant microwave photons. The directionality is enabled by the interference between the emission of superconducting qubits in a waveguide quantum electrodynamics architecture. We also present progress towards implementing communication between two nodes by emitting and capturing a photon. This device can be used as the building block for an all-to-all quantum network.

*This research was funded in part by the US Department of Energy, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences, Materials Sciences and Engineering Division under contract no. DE-AC02-05-CH11231 within the High-Coherence Multilayer Superconducting Structures for Large Scale Qubit Integration and Photonic Transduction program (QISLBNL); and by the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering under Air Force Contract No. FA8702-15-D-0001. A.A. acknowledges support from the PD Soros Fellowship program. The views and conclusions contained herein are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as necessarily representing the official policies or endorsements, either expressed or implied, of the U.S. Government.

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Presenters

  • Aziza Almanakly

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT

Authors

  • Aziza Almanakly

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT

  • Bharath Kannan

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology MI

  • Youngkyu Sung

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT

  • David A Rower

    • MIT, Department of Physics
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT

  • Roni Winik

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT

  • David K Kim

    • MIT Lincoln Lab
    • MIT Lincoln Laboratory

  • Alexander Melville

    • MIT Lincoln Laboratory
    • MIT Lincoln Lab

  • Bethany M Niedzielski

    • MIT Lincoln Lab
    • MIT Lincoln Laboratory

  • Mollie E Schwartz

    • MIT Lincoln Lab
    • MIT Lincoln Laboratory

  • Jonilyn L Yoder

    • MIT Lincoln Lab
    • MIT Lincoln Laboratory

  • Terry P Orlando

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT

  • Jeffrey A Grover

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology MI
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT
    • Northrop Grumman - Mission Systems
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Joel I Wang

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology MI

  • Simon Gustavsson

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • William D Oliver

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Research Laboratory of Electronics
    • MIT Lincoln Laboratory and Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science and Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology