Physics – Condensed Matter – Superconductivity
Scientific paper
2006-11-19
Nature Physics 3, 119 (2007)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Superconductivity
14 pages, 4 figures
Scientific paper
In quantum mechanics, the process of measurement is a subtle interplay between extraction of information and disturbance of the state of the quantum system. A quantum non-demolition (QND) measurement minimizes this disturbance by using a particular system - detector interaction which preserves the eigenstates of a suitable operator of the quantum system. This leads to an ideal projective measurement. We present experiments in which we perform two consecutive measurements on a quantum two -level system, a superconducting flux qubit, by probing the hysteretic behaviour of a coupled nonlinear resonator. The large correlation between the results of the two measurements demonstrates the QND nature of the readout method. The fact that a QND measurement is possible for superconducting qubits strengthens the notion that these fabricated mesoscopic systems are to be regarded as fundamental quantum objects. Our results are also relevant for quantum information processing, where projective measurements are used for protocols like state preparation and error correction.
de Groot P. C.
Harmans J. P. C. M.
Lupascu Adrian
Mooij J. E.
Picot T.
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