Coherent optical control of a superconducting microwave cavity via electro-optical dynamical back-action
arXiv:2210.12443 · doi:10.1038/s41467-023-39493-3
Abstract
Recent quantum technologies have established precise quantum control of various microscopic systems using electromagnetic waves. Interfaces based on cryogenic cavity electro-optic systems are particularly promising, due to the direct interaction between microwave and optical fields in the quantum regime. Quantum optical control of superconducting microwave circuits has been precluded so far due to the weak electro-optical coupling as well as quasi-particles induced by the pump laser. Here we report the coherent control of a superconducting microwave cavity using laser pulses in a multimode electro-optical device at millikelvin temperature with near-unity cooperativity. Both the stationary and instantaneous responses of the microwave and optical modes comply with the coherent electro-optical interaction, and reveal only minuscule amount of excess back-action with an unanticipated time delay. Our demonstration enables wide ranges of applications beyond quantum transductions, from squeezing and quantum non-demolition measurements of microwave fields, to entanglement generation and hybrid quantum networks.
References in corpus (29)
- Supplementary information for "Quantum supremacy using a programmable superconducting processor"
- Cavity Optomechanics
- Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics
- Optomechanically induced transparency
- Integrated photonics on thin-film lithium niobate
- Electromagnetically Induced Transparency and Slow Light with Optomechanics
- Bidirectional and efficient conversion between microwave and optical light
- Monolithic Ultrahigh-Q Lithium Niobate Microring Resonator
- Quantum transduction of optical photons from a superconducting qubit
- Arbitrarily large steady-state bosonic squeezing via dissipation
- Efficient single sideband microwave to optical conversion using an electro-optical whispering gallery mode resonator
- A magneto-optic modulator with unit quantum effciency
- Control and readout of a superconducting qubit using a photonic link
- Cavity quantum electro-optics
- Bidirectional electro-optic conversion reaching 1% efficiency with thin-film lithium niobate
- Cryogenic electro-optic interconnect for superconducting devices
- Cavity quantum electro-optics. II. Input-output relations between traveling optical and microwave fields
- On-chip microwave-to-optical quantum coherent converter based on a superconducting resonator coupled to an electro-optic microresonator
- Entangling microwaves with optical light
- Mitigating photorefractive effect in thin-filmlithium niobate microring resonators
- Electro-optic entanglement source for microwave to telecom quantum state transfer
- High efficiency coherent microwave-to-optics conversion via off-resonant scattering
- Cavity quantum electro-optics: Microwave-telecom conversion in the quantum ground state
- Theoretical analysis of mechanical displacement measurement using a multiple cavity mode transducer
- Efficient quantum microwave-to-optical conversion using electro-optic nanophotonic coupled-resonators
- Quantum-enabled interface between microwave and telecom light
- Optical Backaction-Evading Measurement of a Mechanical Oscillator
- Ground-state Pulsed Cavity Electro-optics for Microwave-to-optical Conversion
- Dissipative Quantum Feedback in Measurements Using a Parametrically Coupled Microcavity
Cited by in corpus (4)
- Entangling microwaves with optical light
- All-optical single-shot readout of a superconducting qubit
- Bidirectional microwave-optical transduction based on integration of high-overtone bulk acoustic resonators and photonic circuits
- Overcoming the fundamental limit of quantum transduction via intraband entanglement