IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Abstract: An architecture with high connectivity lays the groundwork for studying crucial topics in quantum information science. Among them are quantum simulations of long-range interacting phases of matter that are challenging to model classically and quantum computation involving non-local gates. However, most scalable quantum platforms feature nearest-neighbor interaction because of their local nature of coupling. In this talk, I will discuss our approach to going beyond this limit by utilizing the photon-mediated interaction, which enables us to build a scalable quantum simulator architecture based on superconducting qubits [1]. In this case, the long-range qubit-qubit interaction is mediated via an extensible quantum bus constructed from a microwave photonic bandgap metamaterial, empowering high-fidelity qubit readout while protecting the qubits from radiative decoherence. As an initial demonstration, we realize a 10-qubit simulator of the one-dimensional Bose-Hubbard model with in-situ tunability of both the hopping range and the on-site interaction. By performing many-body quench experiments, we characterize the Hamiltonian using a quantum-chaos-based protocol and observe the effect of tunable long-range hopping, showing a crossover from integrable to ergodic many-body evolution. Looking forward, the metamaterial quantum bus can be extended to a two-dimensional lattice and used to generate other tailored lattice connectivity, greatly expanding the accessible Hamiltonians for analog quantum simulation and the flexibility in implementing gate-based quantum computations using superconducting circuits.
[1] Zhang, X.*, Kim, E. J.*, Mark, D., Choi, S., & Painter, O. (2022). A scalable superconducting quantum simulator with long-range connectivity based on a photonic bandgap metamaterial. arXiv 2206.12803.
Lunch will be provided, following the talk, on the lawn outside the Bridge arcade.
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