# Converting quasiclassical states into arbitrary Fock state superpositions in a superconducting cavity

## TL;DR

This paper introduces a new method for generating arbitrary superpositions of Fock states in a superconducting cavity, leveraging a dispersively coupled qubit to modulate state amplitudes without frequency tuning, enhancing robustness and fidelity.

## Contribution

The authors develop and demonstrate a novel technique that avoids fine-frequency tuning and photon-by-photon pumping, enabling high-fidelity superpositions in superconducting cavities.

## Key findings

- Successfully generated high-fidelity phase eigenstates.
- Produced various superpositions including squeezed states.
- Method shows robustness to noise and experimental errors.

## Abstract

We propose and experimentally demonstrate a new method to generate arbitrary Fock-state superpositions in a superconducting quantum circuit, where a qubit is dispersively coupled to a microwave cavity mode without the need of fine-frequency tuning. Here the qubit is used to conditionally modulate the probability amplitudes of the Fock state components of a coherent state to those of the desired superposition state, instead of pumping photons one by one into the cavity as in previous schemes. Our method does not require the adjustment of the qubit frequency during the cavity state preparation, and is more robust to noise and accumulation of experimental errors compared to previous ones. Using the method, we experimentally generate high-fidelity phase eigenstates under various Hilbert-space dimensions and squeezed states, which are useful for quantum walk and high-precision measurements.