Simultaneous Excitation of Two Noninteracting Atoms with Time-Frequency Correlated Photon Pairs in a Superconducting Circuit. Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • We report the first observation of simultaneous excitation of two noninteracting atoms by a pair of time-frequency correlated photons in a superconducting circuit. The strong coupling regime of this process enables the synthesis of a three-body interaction Hamiltonian, which allows the generation of the tripartite Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger state in a single step with a fidelity as high as 0.95. We further demonstrate the inhibition of the simultaneous two-atom excitation by continuously measuring whether the first photon is emitted. This work provides a new route in synthesizing many-body interaction Hamiltonian and coherent control of entanglement.

published proceedings

  • Phys Rev Lett

author list (cited authors)

  • Ren, W., Liu, W., Song, C., Li, H., Guo, Q., Wang, Z., ... Wang, D.

complete list of authors

  • Ren, Wenhui||Liu, Wuxin||Song, Chao||Li, Hekang||Guo, Qiujiang||Wang, Zhen||Zheng, Dongning||Agarwal, Girish S||Scully, Marlan O||Zhu, Shi-Yao||Wang, H||Wang, Da-Wei