In-situ tunable interaction with an invertible sign between a fluxonium and a post cavity

  1. Desislava G. Atanasova,
  2. Ian Yang,
  3. Teresa Hönigl-Decrinis,
  4. Daria Gusenkova,
  5. Ioan M. Pop,
  6. and Gerhard Kirchmair
Quantum computation with bosonic modes presents a powerful paradigm for harnessing the principles of quantum mechanics to perform complex information processing tasks. In constructing
a bosonic qubit with superconducting circuits, nonlinearity is typically introduced to a cavity mode through an ancillary two-level qubit. However, the ancilla’s spurious heating has impeded progress towards fully fault-tolerant bosonic qubits. The ability to in-situ decouple the ancilla when not in use would be beneficial but has not been realized yet. This work presents a novel architecture for quantum information processing, comprising a 3D post cavity coupled to a fluxonium ancilla via a readout resonator. This system’s intricate energy level structure results in a complex landscape of interactions whose sign can be tuned in situ by the magnetic field threading the fluxonium loop. Our results could significantly advance the lifetime and controllability of bosonic qubits.

Mixing of coherent waves on a single three-level artificial atom

  1. Teresa Hönigl-Decrinis,
  2. Ilya V. Antonov,
  3. Rais Shaikhadarov,
  4. Vladimir N. Antonov,
  5. Aleksei Yu. Dmitriev,
  6. and Oleg V. Astafiev
We report coherent frequency conversion in the gigahertz range via three-wave mixing on a single artificial atom in open space. All frequencies involved are in vicinity of transition
frequencies of the three-level atom. A cyclic configuration of levels is therefore essential, which we have realised with an artificial atom based on the flux qubit geometry. The atom is continuously driven at two transition frequencies and we directly measure the coherent emission at the sum or difference frequency. Our approach enables coherent conversion of the incoming fields into the coherent emission at a designed frequency in prospective devices of quantum electronics.