Progress toward entangling superconducting qubits with room temperature optical photons

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Speaker Name/Affiliation
Samarth Hawaldar / Johannes Fink Group, Institute of Science and Technology, Austria
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NIST room 1-4020
Event Details & Abstracts

Quantum transducers provide a pathway to link superconducting circuits to quantum networks that extend over large distances at ambient temperatures. Here, we present our progress toward entangling a superconducting qubit in a dilution refrigerator with a time-bin encoded optical qubit propagating through a room temperature telecom fiber. Starting from a transmon qubit coupled to a microwave resonator, we generate an itinerant time-bin encoded microwave qubit entangled with the transmon. We then route the microwave photon to an electro-optic transducer that upconverts it to the optical domain. To verify the entanglement fidelity, we perform simultaneous measurements of the superconducting qubit and the optical qubit states, and we show evidence of correlations in both longitudinal and transversal bases.