Controllable interaction between photons and distant spins via vacuum Rabi oscillations

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.03809v1
• Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2026 15:22:09 GMT
• Title: Controllable interaction between photons and distant spins via vacuum Rabi oscillations
• Abstract summary: A device composed of two spatially separated double quantum dots hosts single electron spin qubits and a superconducting cavity to accommodate microwave photons.<n>We observe multiple vacuum Rabi oscillations between each spin qubit and the cavity.<n>Results serve as building blocks in exploring light-matter interactions, and also in interfacing semiconductor spin qubits to photonic links.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Vacuum Rabi oscillations between a single photon and a single spin demonstrate the capability of harnessing light-matter interaction at the level of a single quantum of energy. Since the observation of strong spin-photon coupling in gate-defined quantum dots, probing this interaction in the time-domain has been a major objective. Here, we carefully engineer a device composed of two spatially separated double quantum dots hosting single electron spin qubits and a superconducting cavity to accommodate microwave photons. We observe multiple vacuum Rabi oscillations between each spin qubit and the cavity. By concatenating vacuum Rabi oscillations involving the two spins, an energy excitation in one qubit can be emitted as a photon and then transferred to the other qubit. When a single photon is emitted, the cavity is prepared in a Fock state, leading to an accelerated vacuum Rabi frequency. These results serve as building blocks not only in exploring light-matter interactions, but also in interfacing semiconductor spin qubits to photonic links.

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