Speaker:
Zaki Leghtas
Department of Applied Physics, Yale University
Seminar Date:
Friday, February 28, 2014 - 12:00pm
Location:
BECTON SEMINAR ROOM
Prospect Street
New Haven, CT
Maintaining a quantum superposition state of light in a cavity has important applications for quantum error correction. We demonstrate an experimental protocol based on parametric pumping and Josephson circuits, which prepares a Schrodinger cat state in a cavity. This is achieved by engineering a dissipative environment, which exchanges only pairs of photons with our cavity mode. The dissipative nature of this preparation would lead to the observation of a dynamical Zeno effect, where the competition between a coherent drive and the dissipation reveals non trivial dynamics.
Host:
Paul Fleury
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