Microwave-to-Optical Quantum Transduction via Defect-Mediated Scattering in Diamond

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.15988v1
• Date: Fri, 15 May 2026 14:20:53 GMT
• Title: Microwave-to-Optical Quantum Transduction via Defect-Mediated Scattering in Diamond
• Abstract summary: We propose a microwave-to-optical quantum transducer based on double-resonant scattering from a single color center embedded in a diamond optomechanical resonator.<n>We show that strong coupling between the color center and the optical cavity enables coherent conversion at extremely low pump powers on the order of 10 pW.
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• Abstract: Scaling up superconducting quantum processors remains a central challenge for realizing fault-tolerant quantum computation. Although distributed architectures based on optical photons offer a promising route to scalability, they require an efficient microwave-to-optical quantum transducer that operates at cryogenic temperatures. Existing approaches typically rely on strong optical pumping, which induces undesirable heating and degrades single-photon coherence. Here, we propose a microwave-to-optical quantum transducer based on double-resonant scattering from a single color center embedded in a diamond optomechanical resonator. We show that strong coupling between the color center and the optical cavity enables coherent conversion at extremely low pump powers on the order of 10 pW. The proposed device enables remote entanglement generation on the order of 1 kHz with a fidelity exceeding 0.9, demonstrating a viable pathway toward ultra-low-power, high-efficiency quantum transducers based on individual solid-state defects for future distributed superconducting quantum networks.

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