Multiplexed Photon Number Measurement

When a two-level system—a qubit—is used as a probe of a larger system, it naturally leads to answering a single yes-no question about the system state. Here we propose a method where a single qubit is able to extract, not a single, but many bits of information about the photon number of a microwave...

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Main Authors: Antoine Essig, Quentin Ficheux, Théau Peronnin, Nathanaël Cottet, Raphaël Lescanne, Alain Sarlette, Pierre Rouchon, Zaki Leghtas, Benjamin Huard
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2021-08-01
Series:Physical Review X
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.11.031045