Sequential nonabsorbing microwave single-photon detector

2019/06/30 by Ivan Iakoupov, Yuichiro Matsuzaki, William J. Munro +1 · 5 citations
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Atom (system on chip) #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #Detector #Mechanical and Optical Resonators #Microwave #Photon #Quantum Information and Cryptography #Signal processing #Work (physics) #quant-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevresearch.2.033238

published in Physical Review Research 2(3) (American Physical Society) · 6 pages, 3 figures

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Abstract

This work proposes a nonabsorbing microwave single-photon detector that uses an artificial atom as a coherent interaction mediator between a traveling photon and a high-Q resonator. The setup achieves distinguishability in excess of 98% for realistic parameters.

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