Hybrid quantum magnetism in circuit QED: from spin-photon waves to many-body spectroscopy.
Hybrid quantum magnetism in circuit QED: from spin-photon waves to many-body spectroscopy.
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DOI:
10.1103/physrevlett.112.180405
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发表时间:
2013-10
影响因子:
8.6
通讯作者:
A. Kurcz;A. Bermudez;J. García-Ripoll
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作者:
A. Kurcz;A. Bermudez;J. García-Ripoll
We introduce a model of quantum magnetism induced by the nonperturbative exchange of microwave photons between distant superconducting qubits. By interconnecting qubits and cavities, we obtain a spin-boson lattice model that exhibits a quantum phase transition where both qubits and cavities spontaneously polarize. We present a many-body ansatz that captures this phenomenon all the way, from a the perturbative dispersive regime where photons can be traced out, to the nonperturbative ultrastrong coupling regime where photons must be treated on the same footing as qubits. Our ansatz also reproduces the low-energy excitations, which are described by hybridized spin-photon quasiparticles, and can be probed spectroscopically from transmission experiments in circuit QED, as shown by simulating a possible experiment by matrix-product-state methods.