Quantum Entanglement between Optical and Microwave Photonic Qubits

Meesala, Srujan; Lake, David; Wood, Steven; Chiappina, Piero; Zhong, Changchun; Beyer, Andrew D.; Shaw, Matthew D.; Jiang, Liang; Painter, Oskar

doi:10.1103/PhysRevX.14.031055

Quantum Entanglement between Optical and Microwave Photonic Qubits

Journal Article · Mon Sep 30 00:00:00 EDT 2024 · Physical Review. X

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.14.031055· OSTI ID:2449621

Meesala, Srujan; ; Wood, Steven; Chiappina, Piero; ; Beyer, Andrew D.; Shaw, Matthew D.; ;

Entanglement is an extraordinary feature of quantum mechanics. Sources of entangled optical photons were essential to test the foundations of quantum physics through violations of Bell’s inequalities. More recently, entangled many-body states have been realized via strong nonlinear interactions in microwave circuits with superconducting qubits. Here, we demonstrate a chip-scale source of entangled optical and microwave photonic qubits. Our device platform integrates a piezo-optomechanical transducer with a superconducting resonator which is robust under optical illumination. We drive a photon-pair generation process and employ a dual-rail encoding intrinsic to our system to prepare entangled states of microwave and optical photons. We place a lower bound on the fidelity of the entangled state by measuring microwave and optical photons in two orthogonal bases. This entanglement source can directly interface telecom wavelength time-bin qubits and gigahertz frequency superconducting qubits, two well-established platforms for quantum communication and computation, respectively. Published by the American Physical Society 2024

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Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

OSTI ID:: 2449621

Journal Information:: Physical Review. X, Journal Name: Physical Review. X Vol. 14 Journal Issue: 3; ISSN 2160-3308

Publisher:: American Physical SocietyCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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