Pair-cat codes: autonomous error-correction with low-order nonlinearity
Abstract
We introduce a driven-dissipative two-mode bosonic system whose reservoir causes simultaneous loss of two photons in each mode and whose steady states are superpositions of pair-coherent/Barut-Girardello coherent states. We show how quantum information encoded in a steady-state subspace of this system is exponentially immune to phase drifts (cavity dephasing) in both modes. Additionally, it is possible to protect information from arbitrary photon loss in either (but not simultaneously both) of the modes by continuously monitoring the difference between the expected photon numbers of the logical states. Despite employing more resources, the two-mode scheme enjoys two advantages over its one-mode cat-qubit counterpart with regards to implementation using current circuit QED technology. First, monitoring the photon number difference can be done without turning off the currently implementable dissipative stabilizing process. Second, a lower average photon number per mode is required to enjoy a level of protection at least as good as that of the cat-codes. We discuss circuit QED proposals to stabilize the code states, perform gates, and protect against photon loss via either active syndrome measurement or an autonomous procedure. We introduce quasiprobability distributions allowing us to represent two-mode states of fixed photon number difference in a two-dimensional complex plane, instead of the full four-dimensional two-mode phase space. The two-mode codes are generalized to multiple modes in an extension of the stabilizer formalism to non-diagonalizable stabilizers. The M-mode codes can protect against either arbitrary photon losses in up to M − 1 modes or arbitrary losses and gains in any one mode.
Additional Information
© 2019 IOP Publishing Ltd. Received 12 December 2018; Accepted 1 May 2019; Published 11 June 2019. The authors thank Mazyar Mirrahimi and Kyungjoo Noh for fruitful discussions. We acknowledge support from the ARL-CDQI, ARO (Grants No. W911NF-14-1-0011 and No. W911NF-14-1-0563), ARO MURI (W911NF-16-1-0349), NSF (EFMA-1640959), AFOSR MURI (FA9550-14-1-0052 and No. FA9550-15-1-0015), the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (BR2013-049), the Packard Foundation (2013-39273), and the Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics at Caltech.Attached Files
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- Alternative title
- Multimode cat codes
- Eprint ID
- 92772
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- Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics, Caltech
- Army Research Office (ARO)
- W911NF-14-1-0011
- Army Research Office (ARO)
- W911NF-14-1-0563
- Army Research Office (ARO)
- W911NF-16-1-0349
- NSF
- EFMA-1640959
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
- FA9550-14-1-0052
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
- FA9550-15-1-0015
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
- BR2013-049
- David and Lucile Packard Foundation
- 2013-39273
- Army Research Laboratory
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2019-02-15Created from EPrint's datestamp field
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2021-11-16Created from EPrint's last_modified field
- Caltech groups
- Institute for Quantum Information and Matter, Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics