Quantum non-demolition dispersive readout of a superconducting artificial atom using large photon numbers

Abstract

Reading out the state of superconducting artificial atoms typically relies on dispersive coupling to a readout resonator. For a given system noise temperature, increasing the circulating photon number $\bar{n}$ in the resonator enables a shorter measurement time and is therefore expected to reduce readout errors caused by spontaneous atom transitions. However, increasing $\bar{n}$ is generally observed to also increase these transition rates. Here we present a fluxonium artificial atom in which we measure an overall flat dependence of the transition rates between its first two states as a function of $\bar{n}$, up to $\bar{n}\approx 200$. Despite the fact that we observe the expected decrease of the dispersive shift with increasing readout power, the signal-to-noise ratio continuously improves with increasing $\bar{n}$. Even without the use of a parametric amplifier, at $\bar{n}=74$, we measure fidelities of 99% and 93% for feedback-assisted ground and excited state preparation, respectively.

typos corrected, added figure at p.10 (section IV of the Supplemental Material), added references

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