Engineering Purely Nonlinear Coupling with the Quarton

Abstract

Strong nonlinear coupling of superconducting qubits and/or photons is a critical building block for quantum information processing. Due to the perturbative nature of the Josephson nonlinearity, linear coupling is often used in the dispersive regime to approximate nonlinear coupling. However, this dispersive coupling is weak and the underlying linear coupling mixes the local modes which, for example, distributes unwanted self-Kerr to photon modes. Here, we use the quarton to yield purely nonlinear coupling between two linearly decoupled transmon qubits. The quarton's zero ${\varphi }^2$ potential enables a giant gigahertz-level cross-Kerr which is an order of magnitude stronger compared to existing schemes, and the quarton's positive ${\varphi }^4$ potential can cancel the negative self-Kerr of qubits to linearize them into resonators. This giant cross-Kerr between bare modes of qubit-qubit, qubit-photon, and even photon-photon is ideal for applications such as single microwave photon detection and implementation of bosonic codes.

arXiv comment12 pages, 6 figures (including SM); Version 2 - added new coupler QRM and updated Fig. 3-4 of main text and relevant SM sections

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