Circuit QED flip-flop memory with all-microwave switching

  1. Christian Kraglund Andersen,
  2. and Klaus Mølmer
Microwave electronics constitutes an area of research aimed primarily towards the use of high-speed components and circuits for communication and sensing, while digital logic is difficult
to implement with all-microwave technologies. We introduce a microwave driven circuit composed of superconducting resonators and qubits which shows a bistable behaviour, and we present a simple mechanism that allows single- or few-photon microwave pulses to work as Set- and Reset-signals that switch the circuit between its stable modes. The resulting system constitutes an ultra-low-energy Set-Reset flip-flop, and we show that its memory lifetime far exceeds the lifetime of states stored in any of its separate components.

Study of a quantized resonator field coupled to a current-biased Josephson junction in circuit QED

  1. Christian Kraglund Andersen,
  2. Gregor Oelsner,
  3. Evgeni Il'ichev,
  4. and Klaus Mølmer
A Lagrangian formalism is used to derive the Hamiltonian for a λ/4-resonator shunted by a current-biased Josephson junction. The eigenstates and the quantum dynamics of the system
are analyzed numerically, and we show that the system can function as an efficient detector of weak incident microwave fields.