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Quantum transduction is enhanced by single mode squeezing operators

Changchun Zhong1,*, Mingrui Xu2, Aashish Clerk1, Hong X. Tang2,3, and Liang Jiang1,†

  • 1Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
  • 2Department of Electrical Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
  • 3Yale Quantum Institute, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA

  • *zhong.changchun@uchicago.edu
  • †liang.jiang@uchicago.edu
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Phys. Rev. Research 4, L042013 – Published 21 October, 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.4.L042013

Abstract

Quantum transduction is an essential ingredient in scaling up distributed quantum architecture and is actively pursued based on various physical platforms. However, demonstrating a transducer with positive quantum capacity is still practically challenging. In this Letter, we discuss a new approach to relax the impedance matching condition to half impedance matching condition, achieved by introducing two-photon drive in the electro-optic transducer. We show the quantum transduction capacity can be enhanced and can be understood in a simple interference picture with the help of the Bloch-Messiah decomposition. The parameter regimes with positive quantum capacity is identified and compared with and without the drive, indicating that the parametric drive-induced enhancement is promising in demonstrating quantum state conversion and is expected to boost the performance of transduction with various physical platforms.

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Phys. Rev. Research 4, L042013– Published 21 October, 2022
  • Received 8 May 2022
  • Accepted 10 October 2022
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