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quant-ph2019★ 62 cited

Quantum optics with giant atoms -- the first five years

Anton Frisk Kockum

In quantum optics, it is common to assume that atoms can be approximated as point-like compared to the wavelength of the light they interact with. However, recent advances in exper…

quant-ph2019★ 32 cited

Deep Q-learning decoder for depolarizing noise on the toric code

David Fitzek, Mattias Eliasson, Anton Frisk Kockum +1

We present an AI-based decoding agent for quantum error correction of depolarizing noise on the toric code. The agent is trained using deep reinforcement learning (DRL), where an a…

quant-ph2019★ 48 cited

Characterizing decoherence rates of a superconducting qubit by direct microwave scattering

Yong Lu, Andreas Bengtsson, Jonathan J. Burnett +8

We experimentally investigate a superconducting qubit coupled to the end of an open transmission line, in a regime where the qubit decay rates to the transmission line and to its o…

quant-ph2019★ 337 cited

Waveguide Quantum Electrodynamics with Giant Superconducting Artificial Atoms

Bharath Kannan, Max Ruckriegel, Daniel Campbell +14

Models of light-matter interactions typically invoke the dipole approximation, within which atoms are treated as point-like objects when compared to the wavelength of the electroma…

quant-ph2019★ 83 cited

Applying the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm to the Tail Assignment Problem

Pontus Vikstål, Mattias Grönkvist, Marika Svensson +3

Airlines today are faced with a number of large scale scheduling problems. One such problem is the tail assignment problem, which is the task of assigning individual aircraft to a…

quant-ph2019★ 82 cited

Improved success probability with greater circuit depth for the quantum approximate optimization algorithm

Andreas Bengtsson, Pontus Vikstål, Christopher Warren +12

Present-day, noisy, small or intermediate-scale quantum processors---although far from fault-tolerant---support the execution of heuristic quantum algorithms, which might enable a…

quant-ph2019★ 73 cited

Electromagnetically induced acoustic transparency with a superconducting circuit

Gustav Andersson, Maria K. Ekström, Per Delsing

We report the observation of Electromagnetically Induced Transparency (EIT) of a mechanical field, where a superconducting artificial atom is coupled to a 1D-transmission line for…

quant-ph2019★ 176 cited

Oscillating bound states for a giant atom

Lingzhen Guo, Anton Frisk Kockum, Florian Marquardt +1

We investigate the relaxation dynamics of a single artificial atom interacting, via multiple coupling points, with a continuum of bosonic modes (photons or phonons) in a one-dimens…

quant-ph2019★ 8 cited

From the Bloch sphere to phase space representations with the Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill encoding

L. García-Álvarez, A. Ferraro, G. Ferrini

In this work, we study the Wigner phase-space representation of qubit states encoded in continuous variables (CV) by using the Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill (GKP) mapping. We explore a…

quant-ph2019★ 21 cited

Strong coupling out of the blue: an interplay of quantum emitter hybridization with plasmonic dark and bright modes

Benjamin Rousseaux, Denis G. Baranov, Tomasz J. Antosiewicz +2

Strong coupling between a single quantum emitter and an electromagnetic mode is one of the key effects in quantum optics. In the cavity QED approach to plasmonics, strongly coupled…

quant-ph2019★ 29 cited

Simulating ultrastrong-coupling processes breaking parity conservation in Jaynes-Cummings systems

Carlos Sánchez Muñoz, Anton Frisk Kockum, Adam Miranowicz +1

We propose the effective simulation of light-matter ultrastrong-coupling phenomena with strong-coupling systems. Recent theory and experiments have shown that the quantum Rabi Hami…

quant-ph2019★ 20 cited

Towards phonon routing: Controlling propagating acoustic waves in the quantum regime

M K Ekström, T Aref, A Ask +5

We explore routing of propagating phonons in analogy with previous experiments on photons. Surface acoustic waves (SAWs) in the microwave regime are scattered by a superconducting…

quant-ph2019★ 9 cited

A semiclassical analysis of dark state transient dynamics in waveguide circuit QED

E. Wiegand, B. Rousseaux, G. Johansson

The interaction between superconducting qubits and one-dimensional microwave transmission lines has been studied experimentally and theoretically in the past two decades. In this w…

quant-ph2019★ 22 cited

Numerical study of Wigner negativity in one-dimensional steady-state resonance fluorescence

Ingrid Strandberg, Yong Lu, Fernando Quijandría +1

In a numerical study, we investigate the steady-state generation of nonclassical states of light from a coherently driven two-level atom in a one-dimensional waveguide. Specificall…

quant-ph2019★ 42 cited

Critical slowing down in the bistable regime of circuit quantum electrodynamics

P. Brookes, G. Tancredi, A. D. Patterson +5

We investigate the dynamics of the bistable regime of the generalized Jaynes-Cummings Hamiltonian (GJC), realised by a circuit quantum electrodynamics (cQED) system consisting of a…

quant-ph2019★ 143 cited

Observation of Three-Photon Spontaneous Parametric Downconversion in a Superconducting Parametric Cavity

C. W. Sandbo Chang, Carlos Sabín, P. Forn-Díaz +5

Spontaneous parametric downconversion (SPDC) has been a key enabling technology in exploring quantum phenomena and their applications for decades. For instance, traditional SPDC, w…

quant-ph2019★ 7 cited

Simulating moving cavities in superconducting circuits

Stefano Bosco, Joel Lindkvist, Göran Johansson

We theoretically investigate the simulation of moving cavities in a superconducting circuit setup. In particular, we consider a recently proposed experimental scenario where the ph…

quant-ph2019★ 1.5k cited

Superconducting Qubits: Current State of Play

Morten Kjaergaard, Mollie E. Schwartz, Jochen Braumüller +4

Superconducting qubits are leading candidates in the race to build a quantum computer capable of realizing computations beyond the reach of modern supercomputers. The superconducti…

quant-ph2019★ 84 cited

Large collective Lamb shift of two distant superconducting artificial atoms

P. Y. Wen, K. -T. Lin, A. F. Kockum +9

Virtual photons can mediate interaction between atoms, resulting in an energy shift known as a collective Lamb shift. Observing the collective Lamb shift is challenging, since it c…

quant-ph2019★ 2k cited

A Quantum Engineer's Guide to Superconducting Qubits

Philip Krantz, Morten Kjaergaard, Fei Yan +3

The aim of this review is to provide quantum engineers with an introductory guide to the central concepts and challenges in the rapidly accelerating field of superconducting quantu…

quant-ph2019★ 148 cited

Virtual excitations in the ultra-strongly-coupled spin-boson model: physical results from unphysical modes

Neill Lambert, Shahnawaz Ahmed, Mauro Cirio +1

Here we show how, in the ultra-strongly-coupled spin-boson model, apparently unphysical "Matsubara modes" are required not only to regulate detailed balance, but also to arrive at…

quant-ph2019★ 1 cited

Scattering theory of the bifurcation in quantum measurement

Karl-Erik Eriksson, Kristian Lindgren

We model quantum measurement of a two-level system . Previous obstacles for understanding the measurement process are removed by basing the analysis of the interaction between $…