Generating Spatially Entangled Itinerant Photons with Waveguide Quantum Electrodynamics

  1. Bharath Kannan,
  2. Daniel Campbell,
  3. Francisca Vasconcelos,
  4. Roni Winik,
  5. David Kim,
  6. Morten Kjaergaard,
  7. Philip Krantz,
  8. Alexander Melville,
  9. Bethany M. Niedzielski,
  10. Jonilyn Yoder,
  11. Terry P. Orlando,
  12. Simon Gustavsson,
  13. and William D. Oliver
Realizing a fully connected network of quantum processors requires the ability to distribute quantum entanglement. For distant processing nodes, this can be achieved by generating, routing, and capturing spatially entangled itinerant photons. In this work, we demonstrate deterministic generation of such photons using superconducting transmon qubits that are directly coupled to a waveguide. In particular, we generate two-photon N00N states and show that the state and spatial entanglement of the emitted photons can be tuned via the qubit frequencies. Using quadrature amplitude detection, we reconstruct the moments and correlations of the photonic modes and demonstrate state preparation fidelities of 84%. Our results provide a path towards realizing quantum communication and teleportation protocols using non-classical, spatially entangled itinerant photons.

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