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Integrated photonic microresonators have become an essential resource for generating photonic qubits for quantum information processing, entanglement distribution and networking, and quantum communications. The pair-generation rate is enhanced by reducing the microresonator radius, but this comes at the cost of increasing the frequency-mode spacing and reducing the quantum information spectral density. Here, we circumvent this rate-density trade-off in an -on-insulator photonic device by multiplexing an array of 20 small-radius microresonators, each producing a 650-GHz-spaced comb of time-energy entangled-photon pairs. The resonators can be independently tuned via integrated thermo-optic heaters, enabling control of the mode spacing from degeneracy up to a full free spectral range. We demonstrate simultaneous pumping of five resonators with up to -GHz relative comb offsets, where each resonator produces pairs exhibiting time-energy entanglement visibilities up to , coincidence-to-accidental ratios exceeding , and an on-chip pair rate up to per comb line—an improvement over prior work by more than a factor of 40. As a demonstration, we generate frequency-bin qubits in a maximally entangled two-qubit Bell state with fidelity exceeding ( with background correction) and detected frequency-bin entanglement rates up to 7 kHz (an approximately MHz on-chip pair rate) using a pump power of approximately . Multiplexing small-radius microresonators combines the key capabilities required for programmable and dense photonic qubit encoding while retaining high pair-generation rates, heralded single-photon purity, and entanglement fidelity. Published by the American Physical Society2025
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The Floquet Fluxonium Molecule: Driving Down Dephasing in Coupled Superconducting Qubits
High-coherence qubits, which can store and manipulate quantum states for long times with low error rates, are necessary building blocks for quantum computers. Here we propose a driven superconducting erasure qubit, the Floquet fluxonium molecule, which minimizes bit-flip rates through disjoint support of its qubit states and suppresses phase flips by a novel second-order insensitivity to flux-noise dephasing. We estimate the bit-flip, phase-flip, and erasure rates through numerical simulations, with predicted coherence times of approximately 50 ms in the computational subspace and erasure lifetimes of about . We also present a protocol for performing high-fidelity single-qubit rotation gates via additional flux modulation, on timescales of roughly 500 ns, and propose a scheme for erasure detection and logical readout. Our results demonstrate the utility of drives for building new qubits that can outperform their static counterparts. Published by the American Physical Society2024
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- Award ID(s):
- 2016136
- PAR ID:
- 10593075
- Publisher / Repository:
- American Physical Society
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- PRX Quantum
- Volume:
- 5
- Issue:
- 4
- ISSN:
- 2691-3399
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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- https://doi.org/10.1103/PRXQuantum.5.040314
