Jingyan Feng

Preparing squeezed, cat and GKP states with parity measurements

Zhiyuan Lin [1], Sen Li [1], Jingyan Feng [2], Kaixuan Zhou [2,3,4], Theodore Mollanoand Valentin Ivannikov, Matteo Fadel [5], Tim Byrnes [2,1,6,3]

Abstract

Bosonic modes constitute a central resource in a wide range of quantum technologies, providing long-lived degrees of freedom for the storage, processing, and transduction of quantum information. Such modes naturally arise in platforms including circuit quantum electrodynamics, quantum acoustodynamics, and trapped-ion systems. In these architectures, coherent control and high-fidelity readout of the bosonic degrees of freedom are achieved via coupling to an auxiliary qubit. When operated in the strong dispersive regime, this interaction enables parity measurements of the mode which, in combination with phase-space displacements, constitute a standard experimental tool for full Wigner-function tomography. Here, we propose a protocol based on displaced parity measurements that allows for the preparation of a variety of bosonic quantum states. As a first example, we demonstrate the generation of squeezed states, achieving up to ~9 dB of squeezing after only three parity measurements, and show that the protocol is robust against experimental imperfections. Finally, we generalize our approach to the preparation of other paradigmatic bosonic states, including cat and Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill states.

Quantum teleportation of cat states with binary-outcome measurements

Jingyan Feng [1,2], Mohan Zhang [1], Matteo Fadel [3], Tim Byrnes [2,1,4,5]

Abstract

We propose a teleportation protocol involving beam splitting operations and binary-outcome measurements, such as parity measurements. These operations have a straightforward implementation using the dispersive regime of the Jaynes-Cummings Hamiltonian, making our protocol suitable for a broad class of platforms, including trapped ions, circuit quantum electrodynamics and acoustodynamics systems. In these platforms homodyne measurements of the bosonic modes are less natural than dispersive measurements, making standard continuous variable teleportation unsuitable. In our protocol, Alice is in possession of two bosonic modes and Bob a single mode. An entangled mode pair between Alice and Bob is created by performing a beam splitter operation on a cat state. An unknown qubit state encoded by cat states is then teleported from Alice to Bob after a beamsplitting operation, measurement sequence, and a conditional correction. In the case of multiple measurements, near-perfect fidelity can be obtained. We discuss the optimal parameters in order to maximize the fidelity under a variety of scenarios.