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2019 Fiscal Year Annual Research Report

Microwave quantum optics on superconducting circuits

Research Project

Project/Area Number 18F18799
Research InstitutionThe University of Tokyo
Host Researcher 中村 泰信  東京大学, 先端科学技術研究センター, 教授 (90524083)
Foreign Research Fellow GHEERAERT NICOLAS  東京大学, 先端科学技術研究センター, 外国人特別研究員
Project Period (FY) 2018-11-09 – 2021-03-31
KeywordsSuperconducting qubit / microwave / quantum optics
Outline of Annual Research Achievements

My work in this fiscal year consisted in developing a unidirectional emitter of microwave photons to a 1D waveguide. This work is of particular interest regarding the prospect of fabricating 1D quantum networks, where qubits coupled to a common waveguide can exchange quantum information with one another. Indeed, without some specific design that will lead to emission in a single direction, right or left, a qubit will naturally emit in both directions of the waveguide, which will thus scatter the quantum information in different locations. The same goes for absorption. If a photon from the waveguide impinges on a usual qubit from a single direction, the qubit will not be able to absorb the full photon. The device I propose, on the other hand, can absorb and emit photons unidirectionally, which allows us to circumvent this issue. The aim for now is to demonstrate the operation of a single of those unidirectional devices, coupled to an open transmission line. A large part of my time was devoted to predicting the behaviour of the systems we are considering from a theoretical point of view. By encoding the system’s physics into matrices and equations, we can calculate the time-evolution of a given physical system in time and deduce what will be its state at a future time. All these simulations were made using the Python programming language.

Research Progress Status

翌年度、交付申請を辞退するため、記入しない。

Strategy for Future Research Activity

翌年度、交付申請を辞退するため、記入しない。

Research Products

(1 results)

All 2019

All Presentation (1 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 1 results)

  • [Presentation] Proposals for generating and detecting single-magnon Fock states2019

    • Author(s)
      N. Gheeraert, S. P. Wolski, D. Lachance-Quirion, Y. Tabuchi, and Y. Nakamura
    • Organizer
      20th Anniversary of Superconducting Qubits (SQ20th): Progress and Future Directions
    • Int'l Joint Research

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Published: 2021-01-27  

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