Entanglement concentration of microwave photons based on Kerr effect in circuit QED

TL;DR

This paper introduces a novel protocol for entanglement concentration of microwave photons using the cross-Kerr effect in circuit QED, enabling efficient quantum nondemolition measurements for solid-state quantum information processing.

Contribution

It presents the first entanglement concentration protocol for microwave photons utilizing the cross-Kerr effect in circuit QED with superconducting resonators and molecules.

Findings

High efficiency in entanglement concentration demonstrated

Effective quantum nondemolition measurement achieved

Potential application in solid-state quantum information processing

Abstract

In recent years, superconducting qubits show great potential in quantum computation. Hence, microwave photons become very interesting qubits for quantum information processing assisted by superconducting quantum computation. Here, we present the first protocol for the entanglement concentration on microwave photons, resorting to the cross-Kerr effect in circuit quantum electrodynamics (QED). Two superconducting transmission line resonators (TLRs) coupled to superconducting molecule with the N-type level structure induce the effective cross-Kerr effect for realizing the quantum nondemolition (QND) measurement on microwave photons. With this device, we present a two-qubit polarization parity QND detector on the photon states of the superconducting TLRs, which can be used to concentrate efficiently the nonlocal non-maximally entangled states of microwave photons assisted by several linear microwave elements. This protocol has a high efficiency and it may be useful for solid-state quantum information processing assisted by microwave photons.