Phys. Rev. B 84, 075339 (2011)
arXiv:1207.3331 [quant-ph]
We investigate the electric manipulation of a single electron spin in a single gate-defined quantum dot. We observe that so-far neglected shifts between the hyperfine and spin-orbit mediated electric dipole spin resonance conditions have important consequences at high magnetic fields. In experiments using adiabatic rapid passage to robustly invert the electron spin, the resonance shifts lead to an unusually wide and asymmetric response as a function of magnetic field. Simulations support the interpretation of the lineshape in terms of four different resonance conditions.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 260506 (2012)
Phys. Rev. B 85, 054504 (2012)
Phys. Rev. B 86, 115303 (2012)
Phys. Rev. A 86, 053838 (2012)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 047001 (2013)
We measure the quantum fluctuations of a pumped nonlinear resonator using a superconducting artificial atom as an in situ probe. The qubit excitation spectrum gives access to the frequency and amount of excitation of the intracavity field fluctuations, from which we infer its effective temperature. These quantities are found to be in agreement with theoretical predictions; in particular, we experimentally observe the phenomenon of quantum heating.
Phys. Rev. B 86, 064514 (2012)
Book chapter in "Fluctuating Nonlinear Oscillators" by Oxford University Press, edited by Mark Dykman (published in 2012)
Phys. Rev. B 85, 140503(R) (2012)
We operate a superconducting quantum processor consisting of two tunable transmon qubits coupled by a swapping interaction, and equipped with nondestructive single-shot readout of the two qubits. With this processor, we run the Grover search algorithm among four objects and find that the correct answer is retrieved after a single run with a success probability between 0.52 and 0.67, which is significantly larger than the 0.25 achieved with a classical algorithm. This constitutes a proof of concept for the quantum speed-up of electrical quantum processors.