Resonator-Assisted Quantum Bath Engineering of a Flux Qubit

  1. Xian-Peng Zhang,
  2. Li-Tuo Shen,
  3. Zhang-Qi Yin,
  4. Huai-Zhi Wu,
  5. and Zhen-Biao Yang
We demonstrate quantum bath engineering for preparation of any orbital state with controllable phase factor of a superconducting flux qubit assisted by a microwave coplanar waveguide
resonator. We have investigated the polarization efficiency of the arbitrary direction of the pseudo angular momentum space, and obtained an effective Rabi frequency by using the convergence condition of Markovian master equation. The processes of polarization can be implemented effectively in a dissipative environment created by resonator photon decay when the spectrum of the microwave resonator matches with the specially tailored Rabi and resonant frequencies of the drive. Our calculations indicate that state-preparation fidelities in excess of 99.9\% and the required time on the order of magnitude of microsecond are in principle possible for experimentally reasonable sample parameters. Furthermore, our proposal is available to generalize to any other kinds of spin-based qubits.