Superconducting metamaterials for waveguide quantum electrodynamics
Abstract
Embedding tunable quantum emitters in a photonic bandgap structure enables control of dissipative and dispersive interactions between emitters and their photonic bath. Operation in the transmission band, outside the gap, allows for studying waveguide quantum electrodynamics in the slow-light regime. Alternatively, tuning the emitter into the bandgap results in finite-range emitter–emitter interactions via bound photonic states. Here, we couple a transmon qubit to a superconducting metamaterial with a deep sub-wavelength lattice constant (λ/60). The metamaterial is formed by periodically loading a transmission line with compact, low-loss, low-disorder lumped-element microwave resonators. Tuning the qubit frequency in the vicinity of a band-edge with a group index of n_g = 450, we observe an anomalous Lamb shift of −28 MHz accompanied by a 24-fold enhancement in the qubit lifetime. In addition, we demonstrate selective enhancement and inhibition of spontaneous emission of different transmon transitions, which provide simultaneous access to short-lived radiatively damped and long-lived metastable qubit states.
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© The Author(s) 2018. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Received 17 May 2018; Accepted 10 August 2018; Published 12 September 2018. We would like to thank Paul Dieterle, Ana Asenjo Garcia, and Darrick Chang for fruitful discussions regarding waveguide QED. This work was supported by the AFOSR MURI Quantum Photonic Matter (grant 16RT0696), the AFOSR MURI Wiring Quantum Networks with Mechanical Transducers (grant FA9550-15-1-0015), the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter, an NSF Physics Frontiers Center (grant PHY-1125565) with support of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, and the Kavli Nanoscience Institute at Caltech. M.M. (A.J.K., A.S.) gratefully acknowledges support from a KNI (IQIM) Postdoctoral Fellowship. Data availability: The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author (O.P.) upon reasonable request.Attached Files
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- PMCID
- PMC6135821
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- 85291
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- CaltechAUTHORS:20180313-154248544
- 16RT0696
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
- FA9550-15-1-0015
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
- Institute for Quantum Information and Matter (IQIM)
- PHY-1125565
- NSF
- Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
- Kavli Nanoscience Institute
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2018-03-13Created from EPrint's datestamp field
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2022-05-10Created from EPrint's last_modified field
- Caltech groups
- Institute for Quantum Information and Matter, Kavli Nanoscience Institute