Quantum state transmission in a superconducting charge qubit-atom hybrid

Hybrids consisting of macroscopic superconducting circuits and microscopic components, such as atoms and spins, have the potential of transmitting an arbitrary state between different quantum species, leading to the prospective of high-speed operation and long-time storage of quantum information. He...

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Main Authors: Yu, Deshui, Valado, María Martínez, Hufnagel, Christoph, Kwek, Leong Chuan, Amico, Luigi, Dumke, Rainer
Other Authors: School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: 2018
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/87482
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/46735
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Summary:Hybrids consisting of macroscopic superconducting circuits and microscopic components, such as atoms and spins, have the potential of transmitting an arbitrary state between different quantum species, leading to the prospective of high-speed operation and long-time storage of quantum information. Here we propose a novel hybrid structure, where a neutral-atom qubit directly interfaces with a superconducting charge qubit, to implement the qubit-state transmission. The highly-excited Rydberg atom located inside the gate capacitor strongly affects the behavior of Cooper pairs in the box while the atom in the ground state hardly interferes with the superconducting device. In addition, the DC Stark shift of the atomic states significantly depends on the charge-qubit states. By means of the standard spectroscopic techniques and sweeping the gate voltage bias, we show how to transfer an arbitrary quantum state from the superconducting device to the atom and vice versa.