Progress Toward Coherent Photon Arithmetic on a Superconducting Bosonic Mode

ORAL

Abstract

The rates of most primitive quantum logical operations on n-level systems are state-dependent. This makes arithmetic operations on n-level systems challenging as they require a-priori knowledge of the system state. A prior proposal [1] has shown the theoretical implementation of coherent single-photon subtraction (SPS) from a bosonic mode to an auxiliary qubit by combining two simultaneous drives. One drive irreversibly swaps an excitation from a bosonic mode to an auxiliary bit using dissipation engineering. The other drive makes the first operation coherent by irreversibly exciting the auxiliary bit to its second excited state. In this work, we make progress toward experimentally realizing the proposal on a superconducting processor. We support these experimental results with numerical simulations including up to fourth-order interactions.

[1] Christopher McNally, Max Hays, and William D. Oliver “Single-Photon Subtraction in Circuit QED,” (2023), APS March Meeting

**This research is supported in part by NTT Research and by the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering under Air Force Contract No. FA8702-15-D-0001. 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

  • William P Banner

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Authors

  • William P Banner

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Christopher McNally

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Max Hays

    • MIT
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology MI
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • Massachussets Institute of Technology
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT

  • Alen Senanian

    • Cornell University

  • Andy Schang

    • Cornell University

  • Michael A Gingras

    • MIT Lincoln Laboratory

  • Bethany M Niedzielski

    • MIT Lincoln Lab
    • MIT Lincoln Laboratory

  • Hannah M Stickler

    • MIT Lincoln Laboratory

  • Jonilyn L Yoder

    • MIT Lincoln Lab
    • MIT Lincoln Laboratory

  • Mollie E Schwartz

    • MIT Lincoln Laboratory

  • Kyle Serniak

    • MIT Lincoln Laboratory & MIT RLE
    • MIT Lincoln Laboratory
    • MIT Lincoln Laboratory, MIT RLE

  • Simon Gustavsson

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Jeffrey A Grover

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT

  • Peter L McMahon

    • Cornell University

  • Terry P Orlando

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • William D Oliver

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology MI
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT