Thursday, August 27, 2009

Dial a quantum state!

Today John Martinis presented some amazing experimental results showing how using superconducting phase qubits coupled to a transmission line one can synthesize arbitrary superpositions of photon number states. The figure below is taken from a recent Nature paper


Slide 1Movies can be seen at the Martinis group at UCSB site.
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