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Title: Design of an ultra-low mode volume piezo-optomechanical quantum transducer

Abstract

Coherent transduction of quantum states from the microwave to the optical domain can play a key role in quantum networking and distributed quantum computing. We present the design of a piezo-optomechanical device formed in a hybrid lithium niobate on silicon platform, that is suitable for microwave-to-optical quantum transduction. Our design is based on acoustic hybridization of an ultra-low mode volume piezoacoustic cavity with an optomechanical crystal cavity. The strong piezoelectric nature of lithium niobate allows us to mediate transduction via an acoustic mode which only minimally interacts with the lithium niobate, and is predominantly silicon-like, with very low electrical and acoustic loss. We estimate that this transducer can realize an intrinsic conversion efficiency of up to 35% with <0.5 added noise quanta when resonantly coupled to a superconducting transmon qubit and operated in pulsed mode at 10 kHz repetition rate. The performance improvement gained in such hybrid lithium niobate-silicon transducers make them suitable for heralded entanglement of qubits between superconducting quantum processors connected by optical fiber links.

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OSTI Identifier:
1986404
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AC02-06CH11357
Resource Type:
Published Article
Journal Name:
Optics Express
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Optics Express Journal Volume: 31 Journal Issue: 14; Journal ID: ISSN 1094-4087
Publisher:
Optical Society of America
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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Chiappina, Piero, Banker, Jash, Meesala, Srujan, Lake, David, Wood, Steven, and Painter, Oskar. Design of an ultra-low mode volume piezo-optomechanical quantum transducer. United States: N. p., 2023. Web. doi:10.1364/OE.493532.
Chiappina, Piero, Banker, Jash, Meesala, Srujan, Lake, David, Wood, Steven, & Painter, Oskar. Design of an ultra-low mode volume piezo-optomechanical quantum transducer. United States. https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.493532
Chiappina, Piero, Banker, Jash, Meesala, Srujan, Lake, David, Wood, Steven, and Painter, Oskar. Fri . "Design of an ultra-low mode volume piezo-optomechanical quantum transducer". United States. https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.493532.
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title = {Design of an ultra-low mode volume piezo-optomechanical quantum transducer},
author = {Chiappina, Piero and Banker, Jash and Meesala, Srujan and Lake, David and Wood, Steven and Painter, Oskar},
abstractNote = {Coherent transduction of quantum states from the microwave to the optical domain can play a key role in quantum networking and distributed quantum computing. We present the design of a piezo-optomechanical device formed in a hybrid lithium niobate on silicon platform, that is suitable for microwave-to-optical quantum transduction. Our design is based on acoustic hybridization of an ultra-low mode volume piezoacoustic cavity with an optomechanical crystal cavity. The strong piezoelectric nature of lithium niobate allows us to mediate transduction via an acoustic mode which only minimally interacts with the lithium niobate, and is predominantly silicon-like, with very low electrical and acoustic loss. We estimate that this transducer can realize an intrinsic conversion efficiency of up to 35% with <0.5 added noise quanta when resonantly coupled to a superconducting transmon qubit and operated in pulsed mode at 10 kHz repetition rate. The performance improvement gained in such hybrid lithium niobate-silicon transducers make them suitable for heralded entanglement of qubits between superconducting quantum processors connected by optical fiber links.},
doi = {10.1364/OE.493532},
journal = {Optics Express},
number = 14,
volume = 31,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Jun 23 00:00:00 EDT 2023},
month = {Fri Jun 23 00:00:00 EDT 2023}
}

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