Controllably Coupling Superconducting Charge and Flux Qubits by Using Nanomechanical Resonator

We propose an effective mechanism to couple superconducting charge and flux qubits by using a quantized nanomechanical resonator. The coupling between the charge and flux qubits can be controlled by the external flux of the charge qubit. Under the strong coupling limit, an iSWAP gate can be generated by this scheme. The experimental feasibility in our scheme is also presented.     

Multiplexing Read-Out of Charge Qubits by a Superconducting Resonator

Wavelength division multiplexing(WDM) is widely used in modern optics and electronics.For future quantum computers,the integration of readout is also vitally important.Here we incorporate an idea of WDM to demonstrate multiplexing readout of charge qubits by using a single integrated on-chip superconducting microwave resonator.Two distant qubits formed by two graphene double quantum dots(DQDs) are simultaneously readout by an interconnected superconducting resonator.This readout device is found to have 2 MHz bandwidth and1.1×10~(-4) e/(Hz)~(1/2) charge sensitivity.Different frequency gate-modulations,which are used selectively to change the impedance of the qubits,are applied to different DQDs,which results in separated sidebands in the spectrum.These sidebands enable a multiplexing readout for the multi-qubits circuit.This architecture can largely reduce the amount of detectors and can improve the prospect for scaling-up of semiconductor qubits.     

Robust Quantum Computation with Superconducting Charge Qubits via Coherent Pulses

To achieve robust gate operations on superconducting charge qubits, we theoretically propose a feasible scheme to realize geometric quantum computation via coherent pulses. Only by adiabatically tuning the microwave pulses applied to the gate capacitance can the Berry phases associated with the system be acquired, from which we construct a universal set of geometric gates. Combining the geometric approach with the coherent pulse technique, robust quantum operations aimed at combating noise errors may be implemented experimentally.     

Entanglement Dynamics of Three Superconducting Charge Qubits Coupled to a Cavity

We investigate the entanglement dynamics of a quantum system consisting of three superconducting charge qubits (SCQs) interacting with a microwave field. For separable and entangled states of the SCQs, the evolutions are studied under various photon numbers of cavity field. The results show that the amplitude and period of the bipartite entanglement square concurrences can be controlled by the choice of initial states of SCQs and photon numberof cavity field, respectively. This simple model of a quantum register allows us to understand the dynamic process of the quantum storage of information carried by charge qubit.     

Entanglement of Two Superconducting Charge Qubits Induced by Quantized Radiation Field

We consider two superconducting charge qubits coupled by a single-mode quantized field. We suppose that the two superconducting charge qubits be initially prepared in the mixed and separable state. As time evolves, we will investigate the entanglement between two superconducting charge qubits induced by the quantized field.     

Quantum State Transfer between Charge and Flux Qubits in Circuit-QED

We propose a scheme to implement quantum state transfer in a hybrid circuit quantum electrodynarnics （QED） system which consists of a superconducting charge qubit, a flux qubit, and a transmission line resonator （TLR）. It is shown that quantum state transfer between the charge qubit and the flux qubit can be realized by using the TLR as the data bus.     

Quantum Gate Operations in Decoherence-Free Subspace with Superconducting Charge Qubits inside a Cavity

We propose a feasible scheme to achieve universal quantum gate operations in decoherence-free subspace with superconducting charge qubits placed in a microwave cavity. Single-logic-qubit gates can be realized with cavity assisted interaction, which possesses the advantages of unconventional geometric gate operation. The two-logic- qubit controlled-phase gate between subsystems can be constructed with the help of a variable electrostatic transformer. The collective decoherence can be successfully avoided in our well-designed system. Moreover, GHZ state for logical qubits can also be easily produced in this system.     

Entangled State in Quantization of Magnetic Flux Qubits with Mutual Inductance Coupling

Via the Hamilton dynamical approach we have constructed Hamiltonian for the mutual inductance coupling magnetic flux qubits. The entangled state representation is used to propose Cooper-pair number-phase quantization and the Hamiltonian operator for the whole system. The dynamical evolution of the phase difference operator and the Cooper-pairs number operator is investigated by virtue of Heisenberg equations. Project 10574060 supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and project X071045 supported by the Science Foundation of Liaocheng University.     

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.     

Implementation of a Controlled-Phase Gate and Deutsch-Jozsa Algorithm with Superconducting Charge Qubits in a Cavity

Based on superconducting quantum interference devices （SQUIDs） coupled to a cavity, we propose a scheme for implementing a quantum controlled-phase gate （QPG） and Deutsch-Jozsa （D J） algorithm by a controllable interaction. In the present scheme, the SQUID works in the charge regime, and the cavity field is ultilized as quantum data-bus, which is sequentially coupled to only one qubit at a time. The interaction between the selected qubit and the data bus, such as resonant and dispersive interaction, can be realized by turning the gate capacitance of each SQUID. Especially, the bus is not excited and thus the cavity decay is suppressed during the implementation of DJ algorithm. For the QPG operation, the mode of the bus is unchanged in the end of the operation, although its mode is really excited during the operations. Finally, for typical experiment data, we analyze simply the experimental feasibility of the proposed scheme. Based on the simple operation, our scheme may be realized in this solid-state system, and our idea may be realized in other systems.     

Bell States and Two-Qubit Logic Gate with Superconducting Charge Qubits Coupling to a Nanomechanical Resonator

We propose a scheme for generating Bell states involving two SQUID-based charge qubits by coupling them to a nanomechanical resonator. We also show that it is possible to implement a two-qubit logic gate between the two charge qubits by choosing carefully the interaction time.     

Generation of Multiple-Photon GHZ State via Cavity-Assisted Interaction

We propose a scheme for preparing multiple-photon GHZ state via cavity-assisted interaction. There are n-pair single-photon pulses successively injected and reflected from two sides of the cavity, which traps one atom. After the atomic state is measured, a 2n-photon GHZ state is produced. In the ideal case, the successful probability of the scheme is close to unity.     

Entanglement Dynamics of Strongly-AC-Driven Superconducting Qubits in Circuit QED

We study the entanglement dynamics between two strongly-AC-driven superconducting charge qubits coupled collectively to a zero temperature, dissipative resonator and find an unusual feather that the competing of creation and annihilation of entanglement can lead to entanglement increasing, sudden death and revival. We also calculate the dependence of the death time on the initial state of the system.     

Modulation of Entanglement for Coupled Superconducting Qubits Under Non-Markovian Environment

The evolution of entanglement decoherence is investigated for a coupled superconducting qubit under non-Markovian environment by utilizing a commensal entanglement degree. The results show that, owing to the memory feedback effect of environment, the entanglement degree of the coupled qubits at the thermal equilibrium always monotonously tends to zero so that entanglement sudden death occurs briefly in the non-Markovian process. Different from the Markovian process, stronger the dissipation is, faster the entanglement sudden death is. We find that, furthermore, the interaction between the qubits results generally in reduction of entanglement degree in the quantum system. With some special initial states or initial phase angles, however, the influence of the interaction between qubits on the system entanglement degree can be avoided.     

Disentanglement of Qubits in Classical Limit of Interaction

Two qubits coupled by integral spin object are studied in the semi-classical limit of interaction intermediary. It is shown that initial entanglement of qubits becomes more robust when mediated by semi-classical interaction and does not decay below certain value at a given time. The statements are supported by numerical averaging with respect to a set of randomly chosen initial preparations. There are evidences that such a robustness holds true also for different types of quantum correlations.     

Quantum Entanglement of Two Flux Qubits Induced by an Auxiliary SQUID

We revisit a theoretical scheme to create quantum entanglement of two three-level superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs) with the help of an auxiliary SQUID. In this scenario, two three-level systems are coupled to a quantized cavity field and a classical external field and thus form dark states. The quantum entanglement can be produced by a quantum measurement on the auxiliary SQUID. Our investigation emphasizes the quantum effect of the auxiliary SQUID. For the experimental feasibility and accessibility of the scheme, we calculate the time evolution of the whole system including the auxiliary SQUID. To ensure the efficiency of generating quantum entanglement, relations between the measurement time and dominate parameters of the system are analyzed according to detailed calculations.     

Device for Increasing the Magnetic Flux Pinning in Granular Nanocomposites Based on the High-Temperature Superconducting Ceramic

A device for modifying the granular high-temperature superconducting ceramics in the plasma of a low-pressure arc discharge has been considered. The particular features of the design and operational principle of this device have been described. The device made it possible to combine the synthesis of that play a role of additional pinning centers and simultaneous deposition of these nanoparticles on microgranules in a single processing cycle. The experimental results on the effect of additional pinning centers on an increase in the critical current thanks to the formation of self-assembled structures in the form of whiskers have been considered.