Entanglement of photonic modes from a continuously driven two-level system

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates a method to generate entangled photonic modes from a continuously driven superconducting qubit, enabling high-rate entanglement distribution for quantum networks and computing.

Contribution

The authors experimentally generate entangled photonic modes using a continuously driven superconducting qubit, leveraging mode matching in time and frequency domains.

Findings

Entanglement is observed between modes of the resonance fluorescence spectrum.

The entangled modes are orthogonal and can be transferred to quantum memories.

The method enables high-rate entanglement distribution for quantum communication.

Abstract

The ability to generate entangled states of light is a key primitive for quantum communication and distributed quantum computation. Continuously driven sources, including those based on spontaneous parametric downconversion, are usually probabilistic, whereas deterministic sources require accurate timing of the control fields. Here, we experimentally generate entangled photonic modes by continuously exciting a quantum emitter, a superconducting qubit, with a coherent drive, taking advantage of mode matching in the time and frequency domain. Using joint quantum state tomography and logarithmic negativity, we show that entanglement is generated between modes extracted from the two sidebands of the resonance fluorescence spectrum. Because the entangled photonic modes are perfectly orthogonal, they can be transferred into distinct quantum memories. Our approach can be utilized to distribute entanglement at a high rate in various physical platforms, with applications in waveguide quantum electrodynamics, distributed quantum computing, and quantum networks.