Flux-Activated Resonant Control of a Bosonic Quantum Memory

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates a novel resonant control method for bosonic quantum memories in cQED systems, enabling fast, direct manipulation of Fock states and superpositions, surpassing traditional dispersive techniques.

Contribution

It introduces a resonant control scheme using on-chip broadband flux delivery to directly access Jaynes-Cummings interactions, allowing efficient manipulation of high-dimensional bosonic modes.

Findings

Deterministic Fock state preparation within 100 nanoseconds

Efficient arbitrary rotations between Fock states achieved

Long-lived superconducting cavity with >0.5 ms lifetime

Abstract

Universal control of bosonic degrees of freedom provides a hardware-efficient route for quantum information processing with high-dimensional systems. Bosonic circuit quantum electrodynamics (cQED), which leverages auxillary transmons to coherently control long-lived superconducting cavities, is well suited to this goal. However, such systems are traditionally operated in the dispersive regime, where the nearly degenerate cavity transitions prohibit the direct addressability of individual excitation levels of the bosonic mode and increase gate complexity. Here, we achieve direct oscillator control by dynamically accessing the resonant Jaynes-Cummings (JC) interactions, implemented with a hardware that integrates on-chip broadband magnetic flux delivery with a bosonic memory housed in a 3D superconducting cavity with lifetime exceeding 0.5 ms. We demonstrate deterministic preparation of Fock states and their superpositions within 100s of nanoseconds by directly climbing the JC ladder, and realise efficient arbitrary rotations between any pair of Fock states. Our resonant control scheme provides an analytical method for manipulating the entire Hilbert space of the bosonic mode at rates fundamentally more favourable than traditional dispersive strategies. This on-demand access to JC interactions opens a promising path toward realising robust Fock-basis qudits and harnessing the rich dynamics of high-dimensional bosonic systems for quantum information processing.