Nature Communications (Nov 2017)

Quantum wave mixing and visualisation of coherent and superposed photonic states in a waveguide

  • A. Yu. Dmitriev,
  • R. Shaikhaidarov,
  • V. N. Antonov,
  • T. Hönigl-Decrinis,
  • O. V. Astafiev

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01471-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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The phenomenon of wave mixing is expected to show peculiar features when scaled down to the quantum level. Here, the authors show how coherent electromagnetic waves propagating in a 1D transmission line with an embedded two-level artificial atom are mapped into a quantised spectrum of narrow peaks.