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Quantum State Engineering of Light with Continuous-wave Optical Parametric Oscillators
Published on: May 30, 2014
Observation of the Bloch-Siegert shift in a qubit-oscillator system in the ultrastrong coupling regime
P Forn-Díaz1, J Lisenfeld, D Marcos
1Quantum Transport Group, Delft University of Technology, Lorentzweg 1, 2628CJ Delft, The Netherlands.
Abstract:
We measure the dispersive energy-level shift of an LC resonator magnetically coupled to a superconducting qubit, which clearly shows that our system operates in the ultrastrong coupling regime. The large mutual kinetic inductance provides a coupling energy of ≈ 0.82 GHz, requiring the addition of counter-rotating-wave terms in the description of the Jaynes-Cummings model. We find a 50 MHz Bloch-Siegert shift when the qubit is in its symmetry point, fully consistent with our analytical model.
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