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Controllable microwave three-wave mixing via a single three-level superconducting quantum circuit
Three-wave mixing in second-order nonlinear optical processes cannot occur in atomic systems due to the electric-dipole selection rules. In contrast, we demonstrate that second-order nonlinear processes can occur in a superconducting quantum circuit (i.e., a superconducting artificial atom) when the...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5376979/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25487352 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep07289 |
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author | Liu, Yu-xi Sun, Hui-Chen Peng, Z. H. Miranowicz, Adam Tsai, J. S. Nori, Franco |
author_facet | Liu, Yu-xi Sun, Hui-Chen Peng, Z. H. Miranowicz, Adam Tsai, J. S. Nori, Franco |
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description | Three-wave mixing in second-order nonlinear optical processes cannot occur in atomic systems due to the electric-dipole selection rules. In contrast, we demonstrate that second-order nonlinear processes can occur in a superconducting quantum circuit (i.e., a superconducting artificial atom) when the inversion symmetry of the potential energy is broken by simply changing the applied magnetic flux. In particular, we show that difference- and sum-frequencies (and second harmonics) can be generated in the microwave regime in a controllable manner by using a single three-level superconducting flux quantum circuit (SFQC). For our proposed parameters, the frequency tunability of this circuit can be achieved in the range of about 17 GHz for the sum-frequency generation, and around 42 GHz (or 26 GHz) for the difference-frequency generation. Our proposal provides a simple method to generate second-order nonlinear processes within current experimental parameters of SFQCs. |
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spelling | pubmed-53769792017-04-05 Controllable microwave three-wave mixing via a single three-level superconducting quantum circuit Liu, Yu-xi Sun, Hui-Chen Peng, Z. H. Miranowicz, Adam Tsai, J. S. Nori, Franco Sci Rep Article Three-wave mixing in second-order nonlinear optical processes cannot occur in atomic systems due to the electric-dipole selection rules. In contrast, we demonstrate that second-order nonlinear processes can occur in a superconducting quantum circuit (i.e., a superconducting artificial atom) when the inversion symmetry of the potential energy is broken by simply changing the applied magnetic flux. In particular, we show that difference- and sum-frequencies (and second harmonics) can be generated in the microwave regime in a controllable manner by using a single three-level superconducting flux quantum circuit (SFQC). For our proposed parameters, the frequency tunability of this circuit can be achieved in the range of about 17 GHz for the sum-frequency generation, and around 42 GHz (or 26 GHz) for the difference-frequency generation. Our proposal provides a simple method to generate second-order nonlinear processes within current experimental parameters of SFQCs. Nature Publishing Group 2014-12-09 /pmc/articles/PMC5376979/ /pubmed/25487352 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep07289 Text en Copyright © 2014, Macmillan Publishers Limited. All rights reserved http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder in order to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ |
spellingShingle | Article Liu, Yu-xi Sun, Hui-Chen Peng, Z. H. Miranowicz, Adam Tsai, J. S. Nori, Franco Controllable microwave three-wave mixing via a single three-level superconducting quantum circuit |
title | Controllable microwave three-wave mixing via a single three-level superconducting quantum circuit |
title_full | Controllable microwave three-wave mixing via a single three-level superconducting quantum circuit |
title_fullStr | Controllable microwave three-wave mixing via a single three-level superconducting quantum circuit |
title_full_unstemmed | Controllable microwave three-wave mixing via a single three-level superconducting quantum circuit |
title_short | Controllable microwave three-wave mixing via a single three-level superconducting quantum circuit |
title_sort | controllable microwave three-wave mixing via a single three-level superconducting quantum circuit |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5376979/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25487352 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep07289 |
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