Beyond Spectroscopic Strong Coupling: Operational Benchmarks for Cavity-to-Magnon Quantum Transfer

Abstract:Normal-mode splitting reveals coherent cavity--magnon hybridization but does not certify finite-time quantum-state transfer. We describe quantum transfer in a passive, linear cavity--magnon system coupled to thermal reservoirs as a thermal-loss channel specified by its coherent transmissivity $\eta$ and output-referred thermal population $\nu$. For single-rail qubits, we calculate the phase-corrected average fidelity and compare it with the deterministic measure-and-prepare benchmark of $2/3$. A Bell pair shared by the cavity and an isolated reference retains reference--magnon entanglement if and only if $\eta>\nu$. An input squeezed vacuum of strength $r$ yields sub-vacuum magnon fluctuations if and only if $\nu<\eta(1-e^{-2r})/2$. When the initial magnon and both reservoirs have the same occupation, an analytically determined peak-transmissivity time optimizes all three tasks. These task-dependent benchmarks show that a conventional linewidth-based strong-coupling criterion does not guarantee quantum-transfer performance. Conversely, entanglement or squeezing can survive below that spectroscopic reference when the added noise is sufficiently low. These benchmarks provide quantitative targets for transfer timing and thermal-noise control in intracavity-to-magnon quantum interfaces.

Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Optics (physics.optics)

arXiv:2610.09921 [quant-ph]

(or arXiv:2610.09921v1 [quant-ph] for this version)

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2610.09921 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration)

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