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
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