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    Parametric coupling for superconducting qubits

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    We propose a scheme to couple two superconducting charge or flux qubits biased at their symmetry points with unequal energy splittings. Modulating the coupling constant between two qubits at the sum or difference of their two frequencies allows to bring them into resonance in the rotating frame. Switching on and off the modulation amounts to switching on and off the coupling which can be realized at nanosecond speed. We discuss various physical implementations of this idea, and find that our scheme can lead to rapid operation of a two-qubit gate.Comment: 6 page

    Travelling to exotic places with cavity QED systems

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    Recent theoretical schemes for utilizing cavity QED models as quantum simulators are reviewed. By considering a quadrature representation for the fields, it is shown how Jahn-Teller models, effective Abelian or non-Abelian gauge potentials, transverse Hall currents, and relativistic effects naturally arise in these systems. Some of the analytical predictions are verified numerically using realistic experimental parameters taking into account for system losses. Thereby demonstrating their feasibility with current experimental setups.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figure

    Mesoscopic Rydberg Gate based on Electromagnetically Induced Transparency

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    We demonstrate theoretically a parallelized C-NOT gate which allows to entangle a mesoscopic ensemble of atoms with a single control atom in a single step, with high fidelity and on a microsecond timescale. Our scheme relies on the strong and long-ranged interaction between Rydberg atoms triggering Electromagnetically Induced Transparency (EIT). By this we can robustly implement a conditional transfer of all ensemble atoms among two logical states, depending on the state of the control atom. We outline a many body interferometer which allows a comparison of two many-body quantum states by performing a measurement of the control atom.Comment: published versio

    The quantum Rabi model in a superfluid Bose-Einstein condensate

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    We propose a quantum simulation of the quantum Rabi model in an atomic quantum dot, which is a single atom in a tight optical trap coupled to the quasiparticle modes of a superfluid Bose-Einstein condensate. This widely tunable setup allows to simulate the ultrastrong coupling regime of light-matter interaction in a system which enjoys an amenable characteristic timescale, paving the way for an experimental analysis of the transition between the Jaynes-Cummings and the quantum Rabi dynamics using cold-atom systems. Our scheme can be naturally extended to simulate multi-qubit quantum Rabi models. In particular, we discuss the appearance of effective two-qubit interactions due to phononic exchange, among other features.Comment: Improved version and references adde

    Process tomography of field damping and measurement of Fock state lifetimes by quantum non-demolition photon counting in a cavity

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    The relaxation of a quantum field stored in a high-QQ superconducting cavity is monitored by non-resonant Rydberg atoms. The field, subjected to repetitive quantum non-demolition (QND) photon counting, undergoes jumps between photon number states. We select ensembles of field realizations evolving from a given Fock state and reconstruct the subsequent evolution of their photon number distributions. We realize in this way a tomography of the photon number relaxation process yielding all the jump rates between Fock states. The damping rates of the nn photon states (0≤n≤70\leq n \leq 7) are found to increase linearly with nn. The results are in excellent agreement with theory including a small thermal contribution

    Realization of a superconducting atom chip

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    We have trapped rubidium atoms in the magnetic field produced by a superconducting atom chip operated at liquid Helium temperatures. Up to 8.2â‹…1058.2\cdot 10^5 atoms are held in a Ioffe-Pritchard trap at a distance of 440 ÎĽ\mum from the chip surface, with a temperature of 40 ÎĽ\muK. The trap lifetime reaches 115 s at low atomic densities. These results open the way to the exploration of atom--surface interactions and coherent atomic transport in a superconducting environment, whose properties are radically different from normal metals at room temperature.Comment: Submitted to Phys. Rev. Let
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