Observation of Autler-Townes effect in a dispersively dressed Jaynes-Cummings system

  1. B. Suri,
  2. Z. K. Keane,
  3. R. Ruskov,
  4. Lev S. Bishop,
  5. Charles Tahan,
  6. S. Novikov,
  7. J. E. Robinson,
  8. F. C. Wellstood,
  9. and B. S. Palmer
Photon number splitting is observed in a transmon coupled to a superconducting quasi-lumped-element resonator in the strong dispersive limit. A thermal population of 5.474 GHz photons at an effective resonator temperature of T = 120mK results in a weak n = 1 photon peak along with the n = 0 photon peak in the qubit spectrum in the absence of a coherent drive on the resonator. Two-tone spectroscopy using independent coupler and probe tones reveals an Autler-Townes splitting in the thermal n = 1 photon peak. The observed effect is explained accurately using the four lowest levels of the dispersively dressed qubit-resonator system and compared to results from numerical simulations of the steady-state master equation for the coupled system.
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