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Creation and control of multi-phonon Fock states in a bulk acoustic-wave resonator

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Quantum states of mechanical motion can be important resources for quantum information, metrology and studies of fundamental physics. Recent demonstrations of superconducting qubits coupled to acoustic resonators have opened up the possibility of performing quantum operations on macroscale motional modes1,2,3, which can act as long-lived quantum memories or transducers. In addition, they can potentially be used to test decoherence mechanisms in macroscale objects and other modifications to standard quantum theory4,5. Many of these applications call for the ability to create and characterize complex quantum states, such as states with a well defined phonon number, also known as phonon Fock states. Such capabilities require fast quantum operations and long coherence times of the mechanical mode. Here we demonstrate the controlled generation of multi-phonon Fock states in a macroscale bulk acoustic-wave resonator. We also perform Wigner tomography and state reconstruction to highlight the quantum nature of the prepared states6. These demonstrations are made possible by the long coherence times of our acoustic resonator and our ability to selectively couple a superconducting qubit to individual phonon modes. Our work shows that circuit quantum acoustodynamics7 enables sophisticated quantum control of macroscale mechanical objects and opens up the possibility of using acoustic modes as quantum resources.

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Fig. 1: The ħBAR device and strong qubit–phonon coupling.
Fig. 2: Mode structure of the ħBAR.
Fig. 3: Climbing the phonon Fock state ladder.
Fig. 4: Wigner tomography of non-classical states of motion.

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We thank M. Devoret, S. Girvin, Y. Zhang, K. Chou and V. Jain for discussions. We thank K. Silwa for providing the Josephson parametric converter amplifier. This research was supported by the US Army Research Office (W911NF-14-1-0011), ONR YIP (N00014-17-1-2514), NSF MRSEC (DMR-1119826) and the Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering. Facility use was provided by the Yale SEAS cleanroom, the Yale West Campus Cleanroom and the Yale Institute for Nanoscience and Quantum Engineering (YINQE).

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    Yiwen Chu, Prashanta Kharel, Taekwan Yoon, Luigi Frunzio, Peter T. Rakich & Robert J. Schoelkopf

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    Yiwen Chu, Prashanta Kharel, Taekwan Yoon, Luigi Frunzio, Peter T. Rakich & Robert J. Schoelkopf

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Y.C. performed the experiment and analysed the data under the supervision of P.T.R. and R.J.S. Y.C., P.K. and L.F. designed and fabricated the device. P.K. and T.Y. provided experimental suggestions and theory support. Y.C., P.K., P.T.R. and R.J.S. wrote the manuscript with contributions from all authors.

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The SI is in PDF format and contains the following sections: 1. Fabrication procedures, 2. Acoustic mode simulations, 3. Coherent displacement calibration, 4. Wigner tomography and state reconstruction. There are 4 figures: S1. Fabrication of acoustic resonator chip, S2. Acoustic resonator simulations, S3. Coherent displacements of the phonon mode, S4. Density matricies. The SI also includes 10 references.

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Chu, Y., Kharel, P., Yoon, T. et al. Creation and control of multi-phonon Fock states in a bulk acoustic-wave resonator. Nature 563, 666–670 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0717-7

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