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 …

Tunable coupling engineering between superconducting resonators: From sidebands to effective gauge fields

B Peropadre, D Zueco, F Wulschner, F Deppe… - Physical Review B …, 2013 - APS
In this work we show that a tunable coupling between microwave resonators can be
engineered by means of simple Josephson junctions circuits, such as dc and rf …

-qubit-controlled phase gate with superconducting quantum-interference devices coupled to a resonator

CP Yang, S Han - Physical Review A—Atomic, Molecular, and Optical …, 2005 - APS
We present a way to realize an n-qubit controlled phase gate with superconducting quantum-
interference devices (SQUIDs) by coupling them to a superconducting resonator. In this …

Preparation of macroscopic quantum superposition states of a cavity field via coupling to a superconducting charge qubit

Y Liu, LF Wei, F Nori - Physical Review A—Atomic, Molecular, and Optical …, 2005 - APS
We propose how to generate macroscopic quantum superposition states using a microwave
cavity containing a superconducting charge qubit. Based on the measurement of charge …

Controlled Generation of Squeezed States of Microwave Radiation<? format?> in a Superconducting Resonant Circuit

AM Zagoskin, E Il'Ichev, MW McCutcheon, JF Young… - Physical review …, 2008 - APS
Superconducting oscillators have been successfully used for quantum control and readout
devices in conjunction with superconducting qubits. Also, squeezed states can improve the …

Experimental motivation and empirical consistency in minimal no-collapse quantum mechanics

M Schlosshauer - Annals of Physics, 2006 - Elsevier
We analyze three important experimental domains (SQUIDs, molecular interferometry, and
Bose–Einstein condensation) as well as quantum-biophysical studies of the neuronal …

A size criterion for macroscopic superposition states

G Björk, PGL Mana - Journal of Optics B: Quantum and …, 2004 - iopscience.iop.org
An operational measure to quantify the sizes of some'macroscopic quantum superpositions',
realized in recent experiments, is proposed. The measure is based on the fact that a …

Engineering dissipative channels for realizing Schrödinger cats in SQUIDs

MJ Everitt, TP Spiller, GJ Milburn, RD Wilson… - Frontiers in …, 2014 - frontiersin.org
We show that by engineering the interaction with the environment, there exists a large class
of systems that can evolve irreversibly to a cat state. To be precise, we show that it is …

Generating stationary entangled states in superconducting qubits

J Zhang, Y Liu, CW Li, TJ Tarn, F Nori - Physical Review A—Atomic, Molecular …, 2009 - APS
When a two-qubit system is initially maximally entangled, two independent decoherence
channels, one per qubit, would greatly reduce the entanglement of the two-qubit system …

Dynamical model selection near the quantum-classical boundary

JF Ralph, M Toroš, S Maskell, K Jacobs, M Rashid… - Physical Review A, 2018 - APS
We discuss a general method of model selection from experimentally recorded time-trace
data. This method can be used to distinguish between quantum and classical dynamical …