Marlan O. Scully

Synthesizing five-body interaction in a superconducting quantum circuit

  1. Ke Zhang,
  2. Hekang Li,
  3. Pengfei Zhang,
  4. Jiale Yuan,
  5. Jinyan Chen,
  6. Wenhui Ren,
  7. Zhen Wang,
  8. Chao Song,
  9. Da-Wei Wang,
  10. H. Wang,
  11. Shiyao Zhu,
  12. Girish S. Agarwal,
  13. and Marlan O. Scully
Synthesizing many-body interaction Hamiltonian is a central task in quantum simulation. However, it is challenging to synthesize interactions including more than two spins. Borrowing
tools from quantum optics, we synthesize five-body spin-exchange interaction in a superconducting quantum circuit by simultaneously exciting four independent qubits with time-energy correlated photon quadruples generated from a qudit. During the dynamic evolution of the five-body interaction, a Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger state is generated in a single step with fidelity estimated to be 0.685. We compare the influence of noise on the three-, four- and five-body interaction as a step toward answering the question on the quantum origin of chiral molecules. We also demonstrate a many-body Mach-Zehnder interferometer which potentially has a Heisenberg-limit sensitivity. This study paves a way for quantum simulation involving many-body interactions and high excited states of quantum circuits.
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Simultaneous excitation of two noninteracting atoms with time-frequency correlated photon pairs in a superconducting circuit

  1. Wenhui Ren,
  2. Wuxin Liu,
  3. Chao Song,
  4. Hekang Li,
  5. Qiujiang Guo,
  6. Zhen Wang,
  7. Dongning Zheng,
  8. Girish S. Agarwal,
  9. Marlan O. Scully,
  10. Shi-Yao Zhu,
  11. H. Wang,
  12. and Da-Wei Wang
Here we report the first observation of simultaneous excitation of two noninteracting atoms by a pair of time-frequency correlated photons in a superconducting circuit. The strong coupling
regime of this process enables the synthesis of a three-body interaction Hamiltonian, which allows the generation of the tripartite Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger state in a single step with a fidelity as high as 0.95. We further demonstrate the quantum Zeno effect of inhibiting the simultaneous two-atom excitation by continuously measuring whether the first photon is emitted. This work provides a new route in synthesizing many-body interaction Hamiltonian and coherent control of entanglement.
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Parallel quantum operations with chiral spin states in a superconducting circuit

  1. Da-Wei Wang,
  2. Chao Song,
  3. Wei Feng,
  4. Han Cai,
  5. Da Xu,
  6. Hui Deng,
  7. Dongning Zheng,
  8. Xiaobo Zhu,
  9. H. Wang,
  10. Shiyao Zhu,
  11. and Marlan O. Scully
Recently it was shown that mesoscopic superpositions of photonic states can be prepared based on a spin-gated chiral photon rotation in a Fock-state lattice of three cavities coupled
to a spin (two-level atom). By exchanging the roles of the cavities and the spin, we have performed parallel operations on chiral spin states based on an antisymmetric spin exchange interaction (ASI) in a superconducting circuit. The ASI, which is also called Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction, plays an important role in the formation of topological spin textures such as skyrmions. By periodically modulating the transition frequencies of three superconducting qubits interacting with a bus resonator, we synthesize a chiral ASI Hamiltonian with spin-gated chiral dynamics, which allow us to demonstrate a three-spin chiral logic gate and entangle up to five qubits in Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger states. Our results pave the way for quantum simulation of magnetism with ASI and quantum computation with chiral spin states.
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