Resonance fluorescence of a chiral artificial atom
Abstract
We demonstrate a superconducting artificial atom with strong unidirectional coupling to a microwave photonic waveguide. Our artificial atom is realized by coupling a transmon qubit to the waveguide at two spatially separated points with time-modulated interactions. Direction-sensitive interference arising from the parametric couplings in our scheme results in a non-reciprocal response, where we measure a forward/backward ratio of spontaneous emission exceeding 100. We verify the quantum nonlinear behavior of this artificial chiral atom by measuring the resonance fluorescence spectrum under a strong resonant drive and observing well-resolved Mollow triplets. Further, we demonstrate chirality for the second transition energy of the artificial atom and control it with a pulse sequence to realize a qubit-state-dependent non-reciprocal phase on itinerant photons. Our demonstration puts forth a superconducting hardware platform for the scalable realization of several key functionalities pursued within the paradigm of chiral quantum optics, including quantum networks with all-to-all connectivity, driven-dissipative stabilization of many-body entanglement, and the generation of complex non-classical states of light.
Additional Information
Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). This work was supported by startup funds from the Caltech EAS division, a Braun trust grant, and the National Science Foundation (grant No. 1733907). C.J. gratefully acknowledges support from the IQIM/AWS Postdoctoral Fellowship. F.Y. gratefully acknowledges support from the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.Attached Files
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- 121378
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- CaltechAUTHORS:20230512-186140000.1
- Caltech Division of Engineering and Applied Science
- Carl F. Braun Trust
- PHY-1733907
- NSF
- Institute for Quantum Information and Matter (IQIM)
- AWS Center for Quantum Computing
- NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
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2023-05-13Created from EPrint's datestamp field
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2023-05-13Created from EPrint's last_modified field
- Caltech groups
- Institute for Quantum Information and Matter, AWS Center for Quantum Computing