Microwave photonics with superconducting quantum circuits

X Gu, AF Kockum, A Miranowicz, Y Liu, F Nori - Physics Reports, 2017 - Elsevier
In the past 20 years, impressive progress has been made both experimentally and
theoretically in superconducting quantum circuits, which provide a platform for manipulating …

Colloquium: Stimulating uncertainty: Amplifying the quantum vacuum <?format ?>with superconducting circuits

PD Nation, JR Johansson, MP Blencowe, F Nori - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2012 - APS
The ability to generate particles from the quantum vacuum is one of the most profound
consequences of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. Although the significance of vacuum …

Single microwave-photon detector using an artificial Λ-type three-level system

K Inomata, Z Lin, K Koshino, WD Oliver, JS Tsai… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Single-photon detection is a requisite technique in quantum-optics experiments in both the
optical and the microwave domains. However, the energy of microwave quanta are four to …

Single-shot quantum nondemolition detection of individual itinerant microwave photons

JC Besse, S Gasparinetti, MC Collodo, T Walter… - Physical Review X, 2018 - APS
Single-photon detection is an essential component in many experiments in quantum optics,
but it remains challenging in the microwave domain. We realize a quantum nondemolition …

Broadband, wide-angle, and polarization-independent metamaterial absorber for the visible regime

M Luo, S Shen, L Zhou, S Wu, Y Zhou, L Chen - Optics express, 2017 - opg.optica.org
Broadband metamaterial absorber (MA) in the whole visible regime has attracted an
enormous amount of attention for its potential applications in thermophotovoltaic cells …

Propagating quantum microwaves: towards applications in communication and sensing

M Casariego, EZ Cruzeiro, S Gherardini… - Quantum Science …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The field of propagating quantum microwaves is a relatively new area of research that is
receiving increased attention due to its promising technological applications, both in …

Giant acoustic atom: A single quantum system with a deterministic time delay

L Guo, A Grimsmo, AF Kockum, M Pletyukhov… - Physical Review A, 2017 - APS
We investigate the quantum dynamics of a single transmon qubit coupled to surface acoustic
waves (SAWs) via two distant connection points. Since the acoustic speed is five orders of …

Interferometric control of magnon-induced nearly perfect absorption in cavity magnonics

JW Rao, PC Xu, YS Gui, YP Wang, Y Yang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The perfect absorption of electromagnetic waves has promoted many applications, including
photovoltaics, radar cloaking, and molecular detection. Unlike conventional methods of …

Implementation of a quantum metamaterial using superconducting qubits

P Macha, G Oelsner, JM Reiner, M Marthaler… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
The key issue for the implementation of a metamaterial is to demonstrate the existence of
collective modes corresponding to coherent oscillations of the meta-atoms. Atoms of natural …

Waveguide QED: Power spectra and correlations of two photons scattered off multiple distant qubits and a mirror

YLL Fang, HU Baranger - Physical Review A, 2015 - APS
We study two-level systems (2LS) coupled at different points to a one-dimensional
waveguide in which one end is open and the other is either open (infinite waveguide) or …