LTC Seminar

Title:           Hybrid quantum circuit with a superconducting qubit coupled to a spin ensemble

Speaker: Patrice Bertet, CEA, Saclay, France

Time:          Tuesday, January 31, 2012 at 15:15

Place:         1520-732

Abstract:

We report the experimental realization of a hybrid quantum circuit combining a superconducting qubit and an ensemble of electronic spins. The qubit, of the transmon type, is coherently coupled via a frequency-tunable superconducting resonator to the spin ensemble which consists of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in a diamond crystal [1]. Using this circuit, we prepare arbitrary superpositions of the qubit states that we store into collective excitations of the spin ensemble and retrieve back into the qubit [2]. These results constitute a first proof of concept of a spin-ensemble based quantum memory for superconducting qubits.

[1] Y. Kubo et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 140502 (2010).

[2] Y. Kubo et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 220501 (2011).

Klaus Mølmer

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