Entangling microwaves with light

Sahu R, Qiu L, Hease WJ, Arnold GM, Minoguchi Y, Rabl P, Fink JM. 2023. Entangling microwaves with light. Science. 380(6646), 718–721.

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Quantum entanglement is a key resource in currently developed quantum technologies. Sharing this fragile property between superconducting microwave circuits and optical or atomic systems would enable new functionalities, but this has been hindered by an energy scale mismatch of >104 and the resulting mutually imposed loss and noise. In this work, we created and verified entanglement between microwave and optical fields in a millikelvin environment. Using an optically pulsed superconducting electro-optical device, we show entanglement between propagating microwave and optical fields in the continuous variable domain. This achievement not only paves the way for entanglement between superconducting circuits and telecom wavelength light, but also has wide-ranging implications for hybrid quantum networks in the context of modularization, scaling, sensing, and cross-platform verification.
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2023-05-18
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Science
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American Association for the Advancement of Science
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This work was supported by the European Research Council (grant no. 758053, ERC StG QUNNECT) and the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Program (grant no. 899354, FETopen SuperQuLAN). L.Q. acknowledges generous support from the ISTFELLOW program. W.H. is the recipient of an ISTplus postdoctoral fellowship with funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Program (Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant no. 754411). G.A. is the recipient of a DOC fellowship of the Austrian Academy of Sciences at IST Austria. J.M.F. acknowledges support from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) through BeyondC (grant no. F7105) and the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Program (grant no. 862644, FETopen QUARTET).
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6646
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718-721
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Sahu R, Qiu L, Hease WJ, et al. Entangling microwaves with light. Science. 2023;380(6646):718-721. doi:10.1126/science.adg3812
Sahu, R., Qiu, L., Hease, W. J., Arnold, G. M., Minoguchi, Y., Rabl, P., & Fink, J. M. (2023). Entangling microwaves with light. Science. American Association for the Advancement of Science. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adg3812
Sahu, Rishabh, Liu Qiu, William J Hease, Georg M Arnold, Y. Minoguchi, P. Rabl, and Johannes M Fink. “Entangling Microwaves with Light.” Science. American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adg3812.
R. Sahu et al., “Entangling microwaves with light,” Science, vol. 380, no. 6646. American Association for the Advancement of Science, pp. 718–721, 2023.
Sahu R, Qiu L, Hease WJ, Arnold GM, Minoguchi Y, Rabl P, Fink JM. 2023. Entangling microwaves with light. Science. 380(6646), 718–721.
Sahu, Rishabh, et al. “Entangling Microwaves with Light.” Science, vol. 380, no. 6646, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2023, pp. 718–21, doi:10.1126/science.adg3812.
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