Photon pairs, squeezed light and the quantum wave mixing effect in a cascaded qubit system

Abstract:We develop a theoretical description of quantum wave mixing (QWM) in a cascaded waveguide-QED system of two superconducting qubits, where the probe is driven by an external coherent tone and by the resonance fluorescence of a strongly driven source qubit. Starting from the field correlation functions of the source emission, we derive an effective master-equation treatment for the probe and identify the regime in which the incident fluorescence is characterized by anomalous correlations. When the coherent Rayleigh component of the source spectrum is suppressed, the probe equations of motion become equivalent to those for a qubit driven by a coherent tone and broadband squeezed light, although the ligt emitted by the source is non-Gaussian and antibunched. This equivalence implies a selection rule for the peaks of the QWM spectrum, with a strong suppression of sidebands associated with processes involving an odd number of photons taken from the source field. Numerical simulations of the full cascaded two-qubit model for different ratios of radiative decay rates unambiguously confirm the participation of correlated photon pairs in QWM processes. The current research illustrates that the analysis of peak amplitudes can be used to probe photon statistics in the incident nonclassical field.

accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. A

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

arXiv:2604.08139 [quant-ph]

(or arXiv:2604.08139v2 [quant-ph] for this version)

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.08139 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite

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