Quantum Non-demolition Detection of Single Microwave Photons in a Circuit

Details Quantum Non-demolition Detection of Single Microwave Photons in a Circuit Quantum Non-demolition Detection of Single Microwave Photons in a Circuit

2010-03-13

arxiv.org/abs/1003.2734v1

Nature Physics 6, 663 - 667 (2010)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

5 pages, 4 figures, includes supplementary material

Scientific paper

10.1038/nphys1710

Thorough control of quantum measurement is key to the development of quantum information technologies. Many measurements are destructive, removing more information from the system than they obtain. Quantum non-demolition (QND) measurements allow repeated measurements that give the same eigenvalue. They could be used for several quantum information processing tasks such as error correction, preparation by measurement, and one-way quantum computing. Achieving QND measurements of photons is especially challenging because the detector must be completely transparent to the photons while still acquiring information about them. Recent progress in manipulating microwave photons in superconducting circuits has increased demand for a QND detector which operates in the gigahertz frequency range. Here we demonstrate a QND detection scheme which measures the number of photons inside a high quality-factor microwave cavity on a chip. This scheme maps a photon number onto a qubit state in a single-shot via qubit-photon logic gates. We verify the operation of the device by analyzing the average correlations of repeated measurements, and show that it is 90% QND. It differs from previously reported detectors because its sensitivity is strongly selective to chosen photon number states. This scheme could be used to monitor the state of a photon-based memory in a quantum computer.

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