Quantum nondemolition detection of a propagating microwave photon. Sathyamoorthy, S., Tornberg, L., Kockum, A., Baragiola, B., Combes, J., Wilson, C., Stace, T., & Johansson, G. Physical Review Letters, 2014.
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The ability to nondestructively detect the presence of a single, traveling photon has been a long-standing goal in optics, with applications in quantum information and measurement. Realizing such a detector is complicated by the fact that photon-photon interactions are typically very weak. At microwave frequencies, very strong effective photon-photon interactions in a waveguide have recently been demonstrated. Here we show how this type of interaction can be used to realize a quantum nondemolition measurement of a single propagating microwave photon. The scheme we propose uses a chain of solid-state three-level systems (transmons) cascaded through circulators which suppress photon backscattering. Our theoretical analysis shows that microwave-photon detection with fidelity around 90% can be realized with existing technologies. © 2014 American Physical Society.
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	abstract = {The ability to nondestructively detect the presence of a single, traveling photon has been a long-standing goal in optics, with applications in quantum information and measurement. Realizing such a detector is complicated by the fact that photon-photon interactions are typically very weak. At microwave frequencies, very strong effective photon-photon interactions in a waveguide have recently been demonstrated. Here we show how this type of interaction can be used to realize a quantum nondemolition measurement of a single propagating microwave photon. The scheme we propose uses a chain of solid-state three-level systems (transmons) cascaded through circulators which suppress photon backscattering. Our theoretical analysis shows that microwave-photon detection with fidelity around 90% can be realized with existing technologies. {\copyright} 2014 American Physical Society.},
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	author = {Sathyamoorthy, S.R. and Tornberg, L. and Kockum, A.F. and Baragiola, B.Q. and Combes, J. and Wilson, C.M. and Stace, T.M. and Johansson, G.},
	doi = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.093601},
	journal = {Physical Review Letters},
	number = {9},
	title = {Quantum nondemolition detection of a propagating microwave photon},
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