Chiral cavity quantum electrodynamics
Abstract
Cavity quantum electrodynamics, which explores the granularity of light by coupling a resonator to a nonlinear emitter, has played a foundational role in the development of modern quantum information science and technology. In parallel, the field of condensed matter physics has been revolutionized by the discovery of underlying topological, often arising from the breaking of time-reversal symmetry, as in the case of the quantum Hall effect. In this work, we explore the cavity quantum electrodynamics of a transmon qubit in a topologically nontrivial Harper–Hofstadter lattice. We assemble the lattice of niobium superconducting resonators and break time-reversal symmetry by introducing ferrimagnets before coupling the system to a transmon qubit. We spectroscopically resolve the individual bulk and edge modes of the lattice, detect Rabi oscillations between the excited transmon and each mode and measure the synthetic-vacuum-induced Lamb shift of the transmon. Finally, we demonstrate the ability to employ the transmon to count individual photons within each mode of the topological band structure. This work opens the field of experimental chiral quantum optics, enabling topological many-body physics with microwave photons and providing a route to backscatter-resilient quantum communication.
Additional Information
© Crown 2022. Received 19 September 2021. Accepted 10 June 2022. Published 28 July 2022. This work was supported primarily by ARO MURI W911NF-15-1-0397 and AFOSR MURI FA9550-19-1-0399. This work was also supported by NSF EAGER 1926604, and the University of Chicago Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, which is funded by National Science Foundation under award no. DMR-1420709. J.C.O., M.G.P. and G.R. acknowledge support from the NSF GRFP. We acknowledge A. Oriani for providing a rapidly cycling refrigerator for cryogenic lattice calibration. Contributions. The experiments were designed by R.M., J.C.O., D.I.S. and J.S. The apparatus was built by J.C.O., R.M., G.R. and B.S. J.C.O. and M.G.P. collected the data, and all authors analysed the data and contributed to the manuscript. Data availability. The experimental data presented in this manuscript are available from the corresponding author upon request, due to the proprietary file formats employed in the data collection process. Code availability. The source code for simulations in Fig. 2 is available from the corresponding author upon request. The authors declare no competing financial interests. Peer review information. Nature Physics thanks Sunil Mittal and Yutaka Tabuchi for their contribution to the peer review of this work.Attached Files
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- Army Research Office (ARO)
- W911NF-15-1-0397
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
- FA9550-19-1-0399
- NSF
- DMR-1926604
- NSF
- DMR-1420709
- NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
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