Internship and thesis proposals
Cat qubits based on dc-biased Josephson junctions

Domaines
Condensed matter
Quantum Machines
Quantum information theory and quantum technologies

Type of internship
Expérimental et théorique
Description
Cat qubits protect quantum information in hardware. Two coherent states of a microwave resonator are held in place by a dissipation that removes photons only in pairs, which suppresses bit flips exponentially with the cat size. This dissipation is usually activated by a microwave pump, which also turns on parasitic terms. We instead bias a Josephson junction with a dc voltage, so that Cooper pairs tunnel at a frequency selecting the useful process while every unwanted term averages to zero. We have just demonstrated this mechanism in Lyon with Alice & Bob. The internship consists in measuring the next circuit and turning this dissipation into a qubit, first a two-component cat imaged by Wigner tomography, then a four-component cat calling for a high-impedance memory.

Contact
Benjamin Huard
+33426731424


Email
Laboratory : laboratoire de physique, ENS de Lyon - umr 5672
Team : ENS de Lyon, Physique
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