59 research outputs found
Feedback control of persistent-current oscillation based on the atomic-clock technique
We propose a scheme of stabilizing the persistent-current Rabi oscillation
based on the flux qubit-resonator-atom hybrid structure. The LC resonator
weakly interacts with the flux qubit and maps the persistent-current Rabi
oscillation onto the intraresonator electric field. This field is further
coupled to a Rydberg-Rydberg transition of the Rb atom. The
Rabi-frequency fluctuation of the flux qubit is deduced from measuring the
atomic population and stabilized via feedback controlling the external flux
bias. Our numerical simulation indicates that the feedback-control method can
efficiently suppress the background fluctuations in the flux qubit, especially
in the low-frequency limit. This technique may be extensively applicable to
different types of superconducting circuits, paving a new way to
long-term-coherence superconducting quantum information processing.Comment: 4 figure
Theoretical Description of Micromaser in the Ultrastrong-Coupling Regime
We theoretically investigate an ultrastrongly-coupled micromaser based on
Rydberg atoms interacting with a superconducting LC resonator, where the common
rotating-wave approximation and slowly-varying-envelope approximation are no
longer applicable. The effect of counter-rotating terms on the masing dynamics
is studied in detail. We find that the intraresonator electric energy declines
and the microwave oscillation frequency shifts significantly in the regime of
ultrastrong coupling. Additionally, the micromaser phase fluctuation is
suppressed, resulting in a reduced spectral linewidth.Comment: 10 pages, 3 figure
Charge-Qubit-Resonator-Interface-Based Nonlinear Circuit QED
We explore applications of nonlinear circuit QED with a charge qubit
inductively coupled to a microwave LC resonator in the photonic engineering and
ultrastrong-coupling multiphoton quantum optics. Simply sweeping the
gate-voltage bias achieves arbitrary Fock-state pulsed maser, where the single
qubit plays the role of artificial gain medium. Resonantly pumping the
parametric qubit-resonator interface leads to the squeezing of resonator field,
which is utilizable to the quantum-limited microwave amplification. Moreover,
upwards and downwards multiphoton quantum jumps may be observed in the steady
state of the driving-free system.Comment: 3 figure
Topological pumping in Aharonov-Bohm rings
Topological Thouless pumping and Aharonov-Bohm effect are both fundamental
effects enabled by the topological properties of the system. Here, we study
both effects together: topological pumping of interacting particles through
Aharonov-Bohm rings. This system can prepare highly entangled many-particle
states, transport them via topological pumping and interfere them, revealing a
fractional flux quantum. The type of the generated state is revealed by
non-trivial Aharonov-Bohm interference patterns that could be used for quantum
sensing. The reflections induced by the interference result from transitions
between topological bands. Specific bands allow transport with a band gap
scaling as the square-root of the particle number. Our system paves a new way
for a combined system of state preparation and topological protected transport.Comment: to be published in Communications Physic
Stabilizing Rabi Oscillation of a Charge Qubit via Atomic Clock Technique
We propose a superconducting circuit-atom hybrid, where the Rabi oscillation
of single excess Cooper pair in the island is stabilized via the common
atomic-clock technique. The noise in the superconducting circuit is mapped onto
the voltage source which biases the Cooper-pair box via an inductor and a gate
capacitor. The fast fluctuations of the gate charge are significantly
suppressed by an inductor-capacitor resonator, leading to a
long-relaxation-time Rabi oscillation. More importantly, the residual
low-frequency fluctuations are further reduced by using the general
feedback-control method, in which the voltage bias is stabilized via
continuously measuring the dc-Stark-shift-induced atomic Ramsey signal. The
stability and coherence time of the resulting charge-qubit Rabi oscillation are
both enhanced. The principal structure of this Cooper-pair-box oscillator is
studied in detail.Comment: 4 figure
The Aharonov-Bohm effect in mesoscopic Bose-Einstein condensates
Ultra-cold atoms in light-shaped potentials open up new ways to explore
mesoscopic physics: Arbitrary trapping potentials can be engineered with only a
change of the laser field. Here, we propose using ultracold atoms in
light-shaped potentials to feasibly realize a cold atom device to study one of
the fundamental problems of mesoscopic physics, the Aharonov-Bohm effect: The
interaction of particles with a magnetic field when traveling in a closed loop.
Surprisingly, we find that the Aharonov-Bohm effect is washed out for
interacting bosons, while it is present for fermions. We show that our atomic
device has possible applications as quantum simulator, Mach-Zehnder
interferometer and for tests of quantum foundation.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figures to be published in Physical Review A Rapid
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Atomoptik und Quanteninformationsverarbeitung mit mikrostrukturierten optischen Elementen
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Relaxation of Rabi Dynamics in a Superconducting Multiple-Qubit Circuit
We investigate a superconducting circuit consisting of multiple
capacitively-coupled charge qubits. The collective Rabi oscillation of qubits
is numerically studied in detail by imitating environmental fluctuations
according to the experimental measurement. For the quantum circuit composed of
identical qubits, the energy relaxation of the system strongly depends on the
interqubit coupling strength. As the qubit-qubit interaction is increased, the
system's relaxation rate is enhanced firstly and then significantly reduced. In
contrast, the inevitable inhomogeneity caused by the nonideal fabrication
always accelerates the collective energy relaxation of the system and weakens
the interqubit correlation. However, such an inhomogeneous quantum circuit is
an interesting test bed for studying the effect of the system inhomogeneity in
quantum many-body simulation.Comment: 15 pages, 5 figure
Readout of the atomtronic quantum interference device
A Bose-Einstein condensate confined in ring shaped lattices interrupted by a
weak link and pierced by an effective magnetic flux defines the atomic
counterpart of the superconducting quantum interference device: the atomtronic
quantum interference device (AQUID). In this paper, we report on the detection
of current states in the system through a self-heterodyne protocol. Following
the original proposal of the NIST and Paris groups, the ring-condensate
many-body wave function interferes with a reference condensate expanding from
the center of the ring. We focus on the rf-AQUID which realizes effective qubit
dynamics. Both the Bose-Hubbard and Gross-Pitaevskii dynamics are studied. For
the Bose-Hubbard dynamics, we demonstrate that the self-heterodyne protocol can
be applied, but higher-order correlations in the evolution of the interfering
condensates are measured to readout of the current states of the system. We
study how states with macroscopic quantum coherence can be told apart analyzing
the noise in the time of flight of the ring condensate
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