Generation of Schr\"odinger cat states through photon-assisted Landau-Zener-St\"uckelberg interferometry

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2008.12159v2
• Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2020 15:44:06 GMT
• Title: Generation of Schr\"odinger cat states through photon-assisted Landau-Zener-St\"uckelberg interferometry
• Authors: Jonas Lidal, Jeroen Danon
• Abstract summary: We propose a conceptually new method for creating Schr"odinger cat states, based on photon-assisted Landau-Zener-St"uckelberg interferometry. We show that by initializing the qubit in one of its basis states, performing three consecutive sweeps of the qubit energy splitting across the 1-photon resonance, the parity of the photon field can be purified to very high degree.
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• Abstract: Schr\"odinger cat states are useful for many applications, ranging from quantum information processing to high-precision measurements. In this paper we propose a conceptually new method for creating such cat states, based on photon-assisted Landau-Zener-St\"uckelberg interferometry in a hybrid system consisting of a qubit coupled to a photon cavity. We show that by initializing the qubit in one of its basis states, performing three consecutive sweeps of the qubit energy splitting across the 1-photon resonance, and finally projecting the qubit to the same basis state, the parity of the photon field can be purified to very high degree; when the initial photon state is a coherent state, the final state will then be very close to a Schr\"odinger cat state. We present numerical simulations that confirm that our protocol could work with high fidelity ($\sim 0.99$) for coherent states of reasonable size ($|\alpha|^2 \sim 10$). Furthermore, we suggest that our protocol can also be used to transfer quantum information between the qubit and a superposition of orthogonal cat states in the cavity.

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