基于网络分析仪的3D Transmon相干测量方法

3D Transmon是目前已知退相干时间较长的一种超导量子比特,在超导量子计算、量子光学、腔量子电动力学等方面具有重要的应用.拉比振荡是表征量子系统退相干时间的重要方法,也是体现量子系统能够进行能级演化的基本实验.对3D Transmon进行拉比振荡测试,需要进行严格的时序控制,测试调试的过程较为繁琐.本文制备了3D Transmon样品,对其基本参数进行了测试表征,创新性地提出了一种基于网络分析仪的拉比振荡测试方法,基于该方法的测试系统搭建简单,可作为迅速验证3D Transmon是否具备量子特性的一种手段,该方法也可推广至其他量子系统进行时域特性的初步验证.     

基于超导量子比特的电磁感应透明研究进展

超导量子计算是目前被认为最有希望实现量子计算机的方案之一. 超导量子比特是超导量子计算的核心部件. 如何尽可能的增加超导量子比特的退相干时间, 大规模的集成超导量子比特已成为超导量子计算研究的主要方向. 超导量子比特作为宏观的人工原子, 有许多量子光学现象都能够在其中观测到. 利用超导量子比特实现电磁感应透明为研究超导量子比特的退相干机理提供了新手段, 为研究非线性光学、光存储、光的超慢速传输等量子光学效应开辟了新思路. 本文介绍了电磁感应透明的理论基础, 总结了目前针对超导量子比特的电磁感应透明研究进展, 对比了一般气体原子与超导量子比特的电磁感应透明区别, 并对超导量子比特实现电磁感应透明的潜在应用进行了总结和展望.     

超导量子比特实验的开端

我们对超导量子比特领域的科学背景、历史起源和早期发展做简要评述.莱格特(Anthony J. Leggett)为这个领域打下了理论基础.克拉克(John Clarke)和他的两个学生马丁尼(John Martinis)和德沃雷(Michel H. Devoret)最早通过偏电流约瑟夫森结,首次观察到约瑟夫森结的量子行为.后来德沃雷实现了电荷量子比特叠加态、电荷-磁通混合量子比特的拉比共振和其他演化及投影测量.中村泰信(Yasunobu Nakamura)首先实现电荷量子比特的量子叠加和拉比振荡,还参与莫伊(J. E. Mooij)组实现了磁通量子比特的拉比振荡和读出.     

LA声子对激子qubit纯退相干的影响

在一个抛物量子点中,以激子的真空态和基态作为量子比特(qubit),采用求密度矩阵元的方法,计算了由形变势下声学声子引发的激子量子比特纯退相干.找到了激子量子比特纯退相干因子对时间、温度和量子点受限长度的依赖关系.研究发现,激子量子比特的退相干因子在2.5ps的时间范围内随时间的增加而迅速增加,其纯退相干时间在ps量级;在温度即使为绝对温度0K时由LA声子引发的退相干依然存在,在温度大于3K后退相干因子随温度的增大而开始迅速增大;并同时发现量子点受限长度对退相干因子有重要影响,激子越受限退相干越快.研究结果表明,对激子量子比特使用适当大小量子点,且保持环境低温,并采用低能超快光学操作可以有效地抑制声子对激子量子比特纯退相干的影响. 关键词： 量子点 量子信息 量子比特     

3D-Transmon与压电振子的量子耦合系统北大核心

微机械振子在量子信息领域有着重要的应用,可用作量子存储器、量子换能器等.鉴于三维传输子量子比特(3D-Transmon)优良的退相干特性以及AlN压电振子较高的谐振频率,我们利用微纳加工技术,在蓝宝石基片上成功制备了3D-Transmon与AlN压电振子的量子耦合系统.实际测量结果显示,在外加磁场偏置下,量子比特的跃迁频率可调范围为4.1~9.8 GHz,能量弛豫时间T1约为4.7μs,并且测量到了能级免交叉现象.这些结果为今后超导量子比特与微机械振子耦合系统的深入研究提供了重要参考.     

金刚石氮空位中心自旋量子调控

量子计算和量子传感近年来受到了广泛的关注.金刚石氮空位中心以其简单稳定的自旋能级结构、高效便捷的光学跃迁规则以及室温下超长的自旋量子态相干时间而成为量子信息科学中引人瞩目的新星.本文从实验研究的角度介绍金刚石氮空位中心自旋量子调控的基础理论、典型技术和代表性结果;重点讨论1)如何通过光磁共振方法在室温大气环境下对单个自旋进行探测和相干操控,2)金刚石中自旋量子比特退相干的主要机制和抑制手段,3)自旋态相干操控技术在量子传感中的应用;最后对氮空位中心在量子计算和量子传感中的发展趋势进行了小结.     

三维传输子量子比特制备研究

研究了三维传输子(3D-transmon)量子比特的制备技术。采用电子束光刻技术制备亚微米双层胶悬空掩模,电子束斜蒸发技术制备Al/AlO_x/Al超导隧道结。将隧道结与三维谐振腔耦合,成功实现3D-transmon。在20 mK下测试了量子比特的能级跃迁频率、拉比振荡、能量弛豫时间t_1等性能,t_1约566 ns。t_1较短的原因是量子比特跃迁频率与三维谐振腔频率接近,耦合过紧。     

初态与纯失相对半导体量子点V型三能级系统拉比振荡的影响

相干光学操控半导体量子点(SQDs)激子态在量子信息、量子计算中具有很重要的应用。通过对影响量子点(QDs)拉比振荡因素的分析,可获得导致量子点体系退相干的物理机制,这为全光操控半导体量子点体系提供了理论依据。线偏振脉冲激光激发自组织InGaAsQDs,运用系统粒子数主方程并结合光学布洛赫矢量推导了单脉冲激发下V型三能级系统激子动力学方程,利用此方程讨论了初始状态及纯失相对拉比振荡的影响。研究表明,可以通过改变系统初态条件和激发场的偏振角对该体系激子拉比振荡的振幅和频率进行调控,可以用纯失相强度相关衰减因子等效地分析V型三能级体系的退相干特性,从而使相关计算得到了简化。     

微波驱动下超导量子比特与磁振子的相干耦合

实验上展示了钇铁石榴石(YIG)晶体小球中磁振子与超导量子比特的驱动缀饰态之间的相干强耦合,磁振子的加入使得在超导量子比特中形成了双重缀饰态.实验中一个钇铁石榴石晶体小球与一个超导量子比特同时放置在三维谐振腔中,分别通过磁偶极相互作用和电偶极相互作用与谐振腔中的本征场(TE102模式)耦合,并通过腔模作为媒介实现两者之间的有效相干强耦合.给超导量子比特施加一个共振的微波驱动并改变驱动强度,测得耦合系统能级劈裂随驱动强度的变化,并理论上利用粒子-空穴对与玻色场耦合的模型做了计算.在大部分的驱动强度范围内实验结果都与理论计算结果符合得较好,表明驱动下的比特-磁振子耦合系统可以用来模拟粒子-空穴对称对与玻色场的耦合系统.本文使用的混合量子系统为模拟玻色子与费米子的混合系统提供了一个新途径.     

碳化硅缺陷有望成为器件友好的量子比特——广泛使用的商品级半导体晶片可在室温下进行相干操控

任何量子计算方案的中心元素都是量子比特，这是一种类似于自旋为1／2的电子的双态体系．在计算过程中，量子比特的状态经历着各种变化；计算一旦完成，需要确定量子比特是“朝上”还是“向下”的．不幸的是，量子比特也要与环境相互作用，这会使其量子态遭受破坏，或者退相干．任何有用的量子比特，在进行一系列有价值的量子操作时，都必须抵抗退相干．     

Temperature dependence of coherent oscillations in Josephson phase qubits

We experimentally investigate the temperature dependence of Rabi oscillations and Ramsey fringes in superconducting phase qubits. In a wide range of temperatures, we find that both the decay time and the amplitude of these coherent oscillations remain nearly unaffected by thermal fluctuations. In the two-level limit, coherent qubit response rapidly vanishes as soon as the energy of thermal fluctuations k(B)T becomes larger than the energy level spacing variant Planck's over h omega of the qubit. In contrast, a sample of much shorter coherence times displayed semiclassical oscillations very similar to Rabi oscillation, but showing a qualitatively different temperature dependence. Our observations shed new light on the origin of decoherence in superconducting qubits. The experimental data suggest that, without degrading already achieved coherence times, phase qubits can be operated at temperatures much higher than those reported till now.     

Approaching unit visibility for control of a superconducting qubit with dispersive readout

In a Rabi oscillation experiment with a superconducting qubit we show that a visibility in the qubit excited state population of more than 95% can be attained. We perform a dispersive measurement of the qubit state by coupling the qubit non-resonantly to a transmission line resonator and probing the resonator transmission spectrum. The measurement process is well characterized and quantitatively understood. In a measurement of Ramsey fringes, the qubit coherence time is larger than 500 ns.     

Spin echoes in the charge transport through phosphorus donors in silicon

The electrical detection of spin echoes via echo tomography is used to observe coherent processes associated with the electrical readout of the spin state of phosphorus donor electrons in silicon near a SiO2 interface. Using the Carr-Purcell pulse sequence, an echo decay with a time constant of 1.7+/-0.2 micros is observed and discussed in terms of decoherence and recombination times. Electrical spin echo tomography thus can be used to study the dynamics of the spin-dependent transport processes, e.g., in realistic spin qubit devices for quantum information processing.     

Observation of coherent oscillations in a single electron spin

Rabi nutations and Hahn echo modulation of a single electron spin in a single defect center have been observed. The coherent evolution of the spin quantum state is followed via optical detection of the spin state. Coherence times up to several microseconds at room temperature have been measured. Optical excitation of the spin states leads to decoherence. Quantum beats between electron spin transitions in a single spin Hahn echo experiment are observed. A closer analysis reveals that beats also result from the hyperfine coupling of the electron spin to a single 14N nuclear spin. The results are analyzed in terms of a density matrix approach of an electron spin interacting with two oscillating fields.     

Electrical detection of spin coherence in silicon

Experimental evidence is presented showing that photocurrents in silicon can be used as highly sensitive readout probes for coherent spin states of localized electrons, the prime candidates for quantum bits in various semiconductor based quantum computer concepts. Conduction electrons are subjected to fast Rabi oscillation induced by means of pulsed electron spin resonance. The collective spin motion of the charge carrier ensemble is reflected by a spin-dependent recombination rate and therefore by the sample conductivity. Because of inhomogeneities, the Rabi oscillation dephases rapidly. However, a microwave induced rephasing is possible causing an echo effect whose intensity contains information about the charge carrier spin state and the coherence decay.     

Rabi oscillations revival induced by time reversal: a test of mesoscopic quantum coherence

Using an echo technique proposed by Morigi et al., we have time-reversed the atom-field interaction in a cavity quantum electrodynamics experiment. The collapse of the atomic Rabi oscillation in a coherent field is reversed, resulting in an induced revival signal. The amplitude of this "echo" is sensitive to nonunitary decoherence processes. Its observation demonstrates the existence of a mesoscopic quantum superposition of field states in the cavity between the collapse and the revival times.     

One-Step Generation of Multi-Qubit GHZ and W States in Superconducting Transmon Qubit System

We propose a one-step method to prepare multi-qubit GHZ and W states with transmon qubits capacitively coupled to a superconducting transmission line resonator(TLR).Compared with the scheme firstly introduced by Wang et al.[Phys.Rev.B 81(2010) 104524],our schemes have longer dephasing time and much shorter operation time because the transmon qubits we used are not only more robust to the decoherence and the unavoidable parameter variations,but also have much stronger coupling constant with TLR.Based on the favourable properties of transmons and TLR,our method is more feasible in experiment.     

Hybrid quantum circuit with a superconducting qubit coupled to a spin ensemble

We report the experimental realization of a hybrid quantum circuit combining a superconducting qubit and an ensemble of electronic spins. The qubit, of the transmon type, is coherently coupled to the spin ensemble consisting of nitrogen-vacancy centers in a diamond crystal via a frequency-tunable superconducting resonator acting as a quantum bus. Using this circuit, we prepare a superposition of the qubit states that we store into collective excitations of the spin ensemble and retrieve back into the qubit later on. These results constitute a proof of concept of spin-ensemble based quantum memory for superconducting qubits.     

Fabrication and characterization of superconducting multiqubit device with niobium base layer

Superconducting transmon qubits are the leading platform in solid-state quantum computing and quantum simulation applications. In this work, we develop a fabrication process for the transmon multiqubit device with a niobium base layer,shadow-evaporated Josephson junctions, and airbridges across the qubit control lines to suppress crosstalk. Our results show that these multiqubit devices have well-characterized readout resonators, and that the energy relaxation and Ramsey(spin-echo) dephasing times are up to ～40 μs and 14(47) μs, respectively. We perform single-qubit gate operations that demonstrate a maximum gate fidelity of 99.97%. In addition, two-qubit vacuum Rabi oscillations are measured to evaluate the coupling strength between qubits, and the crosstalk among qubits is found to be less than 1% with the fabricated airbridges. Further improvements in qubit coherence performance using this fabrication process are also discussed.     

Coherent manipulation of electron spins in the {Cu3} spin triangle complex impregnated in nanoporous silicon

We report on coherent manipulation of electron spins in an antiferromagnetically coupled spin triangle {Cu3-X} (X=As, Sb) impregnated in freestanding nanoporous silicon (NS) by using 240 GHz microwave pulses. Rabi oscillations are observed and the spin coherence time is found to be T(2)=1066 ns at 1.5 K. This demonstrates that the {Cu3-X}:NS hybrid material provides a promising scheme for implementing spin-based quantum gates. By measuring the spin relaxation times of samples with different symmetries and environments we give evidence that a spin chirality is the main decoherence source of spin triangle molecules.