A Schrödinger cat living in two boxes

DOI10.1126/SCIENCE.AAF2941zbMATH Open1355.81020arXiv1601.05505OpenAlexW2258508409WikidataQ51571307 ScholiaQ51571307MaRDI QIDQ2961671FDOQ2961671

Authors: Chen Wang, Yvonne Y. Gao, Philip Reinhold, R. W. Heeres, Nissim Ofek, Kevin Chou, Christopher Axline, Matthew Reagor, Jacob Blumoff, K. Sliwa, Luigi Frunzio, S. M. Girvin, Liang Jiang, Mazyar Mirrahimi, Robert J. Schoelkopf, Michel H. Devoret 

Publication date: 15 February 2017

Published in: Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Quantum superpositions of distinct coherent states in a single-mode harmonic oscillator, known as "cat states", have been an elegant demonstration of Schrodinger's famous cat paradox. Here, we realize a two-mode cat state of electromagnetic fields in two microwave cavities bridged by a superconducting artificial atom, which can also be viewed as an entangled pair of single-cavity cat states. We present full quantum state tomography of this complex cat state over a Hilbert space exceeding 100 dimensions via quantum non-demolition measurements of the joint photon number parity. The ability to manipulate such multi-cavity quantum states paves the way for logical operations between redundantly encoded qubits for fault-tolerant quantum computation and communication.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.05505

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Logical foundations of quantum mechanics; quantum logic (quantum-theoretic aspects) (81P10)

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