Fabrication of rhenium Josephson junctions

Rhenium is a superconductor with a relatively weak tendency to oxidize, which is advantageous in superconducting quantum circuit and qubit applications. In this work, Re/A1-A1Ox/Re Josephson tunnel junctions were fabricated using a selective film-etching process similar to that developed in Nb trilayer technology. The Re films had a superconducting transition temperature of 4.8 K and a transition width of 0.2 K. The junctions were found to be highly reproducible using the fabrication process and their characteristics had good quality with a low leakage current and showed a superconducting gap of 0.55 meV.     

微型光学偶极阱中单原子相干操控Rabi振荡的实现及其应用

文章综述了Rabi振荡的基本原理以及微型光学偶极阱中单原子相干操控Rabi振荡的研究进展,同时介绍了其在单光子源、量子寄存器、量子计算等方面的应用,并简要介绍了作者所在小组在微型光学偶极阱中单原子操控方面的实验进展.     

超导量子比特中的量子跳跃方法

量子力学自建立以来很长一段时间被当作是描述系综运动的理论。但是上世纪80年代对囚禁离子和原子的研究观测到了量子跳跃现象,迫使人们发展了一些能够用于单量子系统的方法,其中之一就是量子跳跃方法。本文总结了我们近来把量子跳跃方法应用到以约瑟夫森隧道结为基础的超导量子比特的工作。我们不但实验观测到宏观量子系统中的量子跳跃,还可以利用量子跳跃现象来研究固体中普遍存在的两能级系统及其引起的超导量子比特中的退相干。     

磁通量子比特qubit信号强度随势垒偏置电压的变化

在20mK极低温下,测量了超导磁通量子比特的环流方向,并测到量子比特(qubit)信号.通过改变磁通量子比特的势垒高度,得到qubit信号强度随势垒高度的变化的实验数据并建立理论模型解释了实验现象.     

Quantum entanglement generation on magnons assisted with microwave cavities coupled to a superconducting qubit

We present protocols to generate quantum entanglement on nonlocal magnons in hybrid systems composed of yttrium iron garnet (YIG) spheres, microwave cavities and a superconducting (SC) qubit. In the schemes, the YIGs are coupled to respective microwave cavities in resonant way, and the SC qubit is placed at the center of the cavities, which interacts with the cavities simultaneously. By exchanging the virtual photon, the cavities can indirectly interact in the far-detuning regime. Detailed protocols are presented to establish entanglement for two, three and arbitrary N magnons with reasonable fidelities.     

Switching and Swapping of Quantum Information: Entropy and Entanglement Level

Information switching and swapping seem to be fundamental elements of quantum communication protocols. Another crucial issue is the presence of entanglement and its level in inspected quantum systems. In this article, a formal definition of the operation of the swapping local quantum information and its existence proof, together with some elementary properties analysed through the prism of the concept of the entropy, are presented. As an example of the local information swapping usage, we demonstrate a certain realisation of the quantum switch. Entanglement levels, during the work of the switch, are calculated with the Negativity measure and a separability criterion based on the von Neumann entropy, spectral decomposition and Schmidt decomposition. Results of numerical experiments, during which the entanglement levels are estimated for systems under consideration with and without distortions, are presented. The noise is generated by the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction and the intrinsic decoherence is modelled by the Milburn equation. This work contains a switch realisation in a circuit form—built out of elementary quantum gates, and a scheme of the circuit which estimates levels of entanglement during the switch’s operating.     

Multi-qubit controlled-NOT gates and Greenberger–Horne–Zeilinger state generation using one qubit simultaneously controlling n qubits

Based on superconducting flux qubits coupled to a superconducting resonator. We propose a scheme for implementing multi-qubit controlled-NOT (C-NOT) gates and Greenberger–Horne–Zeilinger (GHZ) state with one flux qubit simultaneously controlling on n qubits. It is shown that the resonator mode is initially in the vacuum state, a high fidelity for operation procedure can be obtained. In addition, the gate operation time is independent of the number of the qubits, and can be controlled by adjusting detuning and coupling strengths. We also analyze the experimental feasibility that the conditions of the large detuning can be achieved by adjusting frequencies of the resonator and pulses.     

球壳量子点中极化子和量子比特的声子效应

采用求解能量本征方程、LLP幺正变换、变分相结合的方法研究 球壳量子点中极化子和量子比特的声子效应. 数值计算表明: 声子效应使极化子的基态(或激发态)能量小于电子的基态(或激发态)能量, 使量子比特的振荡周期减小, 且内径给定时, 随着外径的增大声子效应对极化子和量子比特振荡周期的影响越大; 声子效应不改变量子比特内电子概率密度分布的幅值, 量子比特内中心球面处概率密度幅值最大, 界面处概率密度为零, 其它处的概率密度幅值介于最大和最小之间, 且各个空间点的概率密度随半径和方位角的变化而变化, 随时间做周期性振荡.     

Short-Time Decoherence of Solid-State Qubit at Optimal Operation Points

We investigate the short-time decoherence of a solid-state qubit under Ohmic noise at optimal operation points. The decoherence is analyzed by maximum norm of the deviation density operator. It is shown that at the temperature T = 3 mK, the loss of the fidelity due to decoherence is much smaller than the DiVincenzo low decoherence criterion, which means that the mode/may be an optimal candidate of qubit for quantum computation.