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Realizing and characterizing chiral photon flow in a circuit quantum electrodynamics necklace
Yan-Pu Wang1, Wei Wang1, Zheng-Yuan Xue2
1Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics and School of Physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074, China.
Scientific Reports
|February 11, 2015
Summary
Researchers created artificial magnetic fields for neutral bosons using superconducting circuits. This method, utilizing superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs), enables the study of gauge theories and chiral photon flow dynamics.
Area of Science:
- Quantum physics
- Condensed matter physics
- Circuit quantum electrodynamics
Background:
- Gauge theories are fundamental in modern physics.
- Synthesizing strong effective magnetic fields for neutral bosons is challenging in conventional systems.
Purpose of the Study:
- To propose and demonstrate a method for implementing artificial Abelian gauge fields.
- To synthesize strong effective magnetic fields for charge-neutral bosons.
- To investigate chiral photon flow dynamics in superconducting quantum circuits.
Main Methods:
- Utilizing a necklace of superconducting transmission line resonators (TLRs) coupled by superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs).
- Employing dynamic modulations of SQUIDs to induce nontrivial hopping phases and effective magnetic fields for microwave photons.
- Studying chiral photon flow dynamics and its response to decoherence.
Main Results:
- Demonstrated the realization and detection of chiral photon flow dynamics.
- Proposed a quantitative measure for the chiral property of photon flow.
- Characterized the dependence of chiral flow on pumping parameters and cavity decay.
Conclusions:
- The proposed parametric scheme is feasible with current technology.
- This method offers an alternative approach to investigating gauge theories using superconducting quantum circuits.
- The study provides a new avenue for exploring synthetic magnetic fields in quantum systems.
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