A direct controlled-phase gate between microwave photons

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2603.15587v2
• Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2026 22:51:31 GMT
• Title: A direct controlled-phase gate between microwave photons
• Abstract summary: We exploit a direct interaction between microwave photons hosted in two superconducting cavities, without exciting the nonlinear element.<n>Our work expands the bosonic circuit quantum electrodynamics (cQED) toolbox by enabling coherence-preserving direct photon-photon interactions between oscillators.<n>This realizes an entangling gate that operates entirely within a bosonic code space while suppressing decoherence from nonlinear ancilla excitations.
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• Abstract: Useful quantum information processing ultimately requires operations over large Hilbert spaces, where logical information can be encoded efficiently and protected against noise. Harmonic oscillators naturally provide access to such high-dimensional spaces and enable hardware-efficient, error-correctable bosonic encodings. However, direct entangling operations between oscillators remains an outstanding challenge. Existing strategies typically rely on parametrically activating interactions that populate the excited states of an ancillary nonlinear element. This induces an effective interaction between the oscillators, at the expense of introducing additional dissipation channels and potential leakage from the encoded manifold. Here, we engineer a Raman-assisted cross-Kerr interaction between microwave photons hosted in two superconducting cavities, without exciting the nonlinear element, thereby suppressing coupler-induced decoherence. This approach generates a direct coupling between microwave photons that is exploited to implement a controlled-phase gate within the single- and two-photon subspaces of two oscillators, directly entangling them. Finally, we harness this dynamics to map the photon-number parity of a storage cavity onto an auxiliary oscillator rather than a nonlinear element, enabling error detection while protecting the storage mode from measurement-induced decoherence. Our work expands the bosonic circuit quantum electrodynamics (cQED) toolbox by enabling coherence-preserving direct photon-photon interactions between oscillators. This realizes an entangling gate that operates entirely within a bosonic code space while suppressing decoherence from nonlinear ancilla excitations, providing a key primitive for fault-tolerant bosonic quantum computing.

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