Generation of large-scale hybrid entangled states between superconducting qubits and microwave-field qubits

Abstract

The generation of hybrid entangled states between matter qubits and microwave-field qubits is a fascinating area of quantum science and technology. In this work, we propose an efficient method to deterministically prepare hybrid entangled states between multiple superconducting qubits (matter qubits) and microwave-field qubits (flying qubits), by using a system composed of multiple superconducting qutrits and microwave cavities. Here, each superconducting (SC) qubit is encoded with the two lowest levels of a SC qutrit, while each microwave-field (MF) qubit is encoded using discrete-variable (DV) states (e.g., the vacuum and single-photon states) or continuous-variable (CV) states (e.g., coherent states) of a microwave cavity. Due to the nonpopulation of the qutrits' third energy level during the operation, decoherence from this level is significantly reduced. Moreover, the hybrid entangled states can be generated on a large scale. The operation time is independent of the number of SC qubits and MF qubits. Only two steps of the operation are needed for the preparation of the hybrid Greenberger-–Horne–-Zeilinger (GHZ) states as long as the initial states of the system are ready. As an example, our numerical results demonstrate that high-fidelity creation of hybrid DV-DV entangled states or CV-DV entangled states of three SC qubits and three MF qubits is feasible with current circuit QED technology. This method is universal and can be extended to generate hybrid entangled states between other matter qubits (such as atoms, ions, quantum dots, NV centers, and magnons) and microwave- or optical-field qubits.

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