Abstract
The chiral interaction between single photons in waveguides and quantum emitters has gained considerable attention. Here, we proposed a tunable quantum routing scheme with a chiral quantum system by coupling an emitter to two chiral waveguides. Conventional quantum routers can only be achieved with each port output probability no larger than 25%. But our scheme can transfer quantum information arbitrarily from an input port to another, and each port’s output probability is 100%. Besides, we investigated the influence of the Purcell factor in quantum routing properties. No matter how to change the size of the directionalities Sj or set a specific value to the dissipation of the emitter, we always found that the quantum routing has very high efficiency. Moreover, we also used a superconducting qubit coupled to two resonators to show the present scheme is pretty feasible for experimental implementation.
1 Introduction
To further improve the rapid-developing quantum information technology, the establishment of a global quantum network [1] is an inevitable trend in the future. The quantum network requires the realization of quantum entanglement [2–4] among multiple remote quantum memories [5], and enables multi-party quantum communication [6, 7]. Such a network can also be applied to quantum computing, distributing quantum precision measurement and fundamental tests of physics in large-scale space. Quantum internet is consisted of three basic elements, which are quantum nodes, quantum channels and quantum repeaters. Quantum nodes, which generate, process and store quantum information, are connected by long-distance quantum channels, while quantum repeaters establish and distribute entanglement. As one kind of node devices, quantum routers [8–22] are a key component of quantum network, which can transmit information continuously between remote quantum nodes. Photons play significant roles in the construction of quantum router because they are relatively free of the decoherence [23, 24]that plagues other quantum systems, and can be manipulated and detected easily. Thus, photon is an ideal candidate of the flying qubit. The waveguide is conveniently scalable so it can be easily integrated on the chip to expand the number of nodes in the quantum network. Based on these excellent characteristics, the coupled waveguide-emitter system has attracted extensive attention in the field in quantum information processing [25–33] and quantum network. In the last several years, numerous theoretical and experimental jobs have showed a variety of quantum router plans based on superconducting circuit [34], cavity-atom [35], coupled resonator [18, 39], optomechanical system [36], or quantum dot [37] for controlling the photonic transport in quantum networks. However, the expectable routing probabilities from the incident channel to the other quantum channels are limited to no more than 50% in all previous schemes. But in the paper by Li et al [38], they investigate the input-output relations of the system and analyze the effect of the atomic states on the photon transmission. They scheme can route the input signal into different output ports guided by the quantum states of a two-level atom, and they also realized 100% output. In this paper we also present a physical scheme that also achieves the output of 100%. In fact, for a complex quantum network, quantum nodes can not only be used for the localized generation, processing, and storage of quantum information, but also generate and process a single qubit. Therefore, improving the routing capabilities of quantum routers is crucial.
Here, we put forward a plan to realize quantum router, our scheme is composed of two chiral waveguides and a Λ-type three-level system. Similar model has been considered in Ref. [17] to demonstrate nonreciprocal few-photon scatterings. The single-photon scattering amplitudes are given analytically. The result shows that the quantum information incident from one waveguide can be redirected into another with 100% probability when the coupling is chiral. Compared to the previous quantum routing plans [18, 39–43] that are based on single photons, our design quantum routing can transport the quantum information deterministically from an input port to arbitrary output port with high efficiency. Such a chiral quantum system could be a genuinely compact, versatile, and powerful improvement to the development of a complex quantum network.
2 Model Setup
The physical system configuration considered in this article is shown in Figure 1. Similar model has been considered in Ref. [17] to demonstrate nonreciprocal few-photon scatterings. The hybrid system located at x = 0 is consists of two parallel waveguides and an emitter with ground states |g⟩, intermediate state |s⟩ and excited state |e⟩. The waveguides are labeled a and b respectively. In theory, we allow these couplings to be chiral and marked as λjL and λjR (j = a, b) respectively. When a single photon is incident from the left of waveguide a, it will propagate or be reflected by the atom along with the four ports of the two waveguide channels. Specifically, in this configuration, the perfect nonreciprocity of single-photon transport means when the single photon is incident from the left of a, it will be output from the right of b with a probability of 1. The Hamiltonian of the system is given by (setting ℏ = 1)where H0, Hw and HI denote the free atomic Hamiltonian, the free-transport photon in the waveguide Hamiltonian and the interactions between the atom and the waveguides Hamiltonian respectively. The free atomic Hamiltonian H0 is given bywhere ωs (ωe) is the frequency of the intermediate (excited)state, γ and Γ account for the spontaneous emission of the state |s⟩ and |e⟩ into other modes different from the waveguide modes, e.g., free space. Ω is the Rabi frequency of the control field that is applied to couple the atomic states |s⟩ and |e⟩. The Hamiltonian of the photon mode in the two waveguides is given bywhere ω0j space is the reference frequency. Here, we set ω0j = ω0a = ω0b. (j = a, b) is the creation operator for the right-moving (left-moving) photon along the waveguide j at position x. νg is the group velocity of a photon in waveguide j which is considered as equal in this work. The interaction Hamiltonian is given bywhere δ represents the Dirac δ function. In this expression, we choose the four coupling constants [VaR, VaL, VbR, VbL] to be real numbers for simplicity. VaR(bR) (VaL(bL)) is the photon-atom coupling strength for the photon propagating along the right (left) direction, and due to the chiral interactions, VjR ≠ VjL (j = a, b). They are related to the final decay rates into the waveguides through . To measure the chiral coupling character, we bring in the parameter [17].
FIGURE 1
Schematic diagram of the system. Two waveguides are chirally coupled to a Λ-type three-level system, the Λ-type three-level system is located at x = 0, and the similar model has been considered in Ref. [17].
Here, Sj = 0 when λjR = λjL, which occurs in nonchiral interaction, 0 < Sj < 1 when λjR ≠ λjL, existing chiral interaction, and whereas for maximally asymmetric coupling Sj = 1. The other relevant element is the Purcell factor [44–48], which accounts for the modification of the total decay rate of an emitter placed in the vicinity of a nanostructure, . Finally, λj = λjR + λjL (j = a, b), which accounts for the total decay rate of the excited state |e⟩ and intermediate state |s⟩ into each of the waveguides.
We concentrate on single-photon scattering in this system. Suppose the atom is in the ground state |g⟩ at the initial time. The wave function of the system can be expressed aswhere φjm(x) denotes the probability amplitude of the right or left propagating photon in waveguide a or b. us and ue are the amplitudes of the states |s⟩ and |e⟩, respectively, and |0g⟩ denotes the ground state, wherein there is no photon in the waveguides and the atom is at the ground state |g⟩. Suppose that the single photon is injected from the left of waveguide a, the probability that the photon propagates can be expressed as
Here, ta (tb) denotes the single-photon transmission amplitude in waveguide a(b) and ra (rb) denotes the single-photon reflection amplitude in waveguide a(b). θ(x) is the Heaviside step function with θ(0) = 1/2. Using the eigenequation H|ψ⟩ = ω|ψ⟩, we obtain
The quantum routing properties of single photons in the four ports are characterized by the transmission coefficient Ta(b) = |ta(b)|2 and the reflection coefficient Ra(b) = |ra(b)|2. The analytic expressions above provide a complete description of the single-photon transport properties of the proposed network. Obviously, the desired quantum routing can be implemented by properly designing the relevant geometric parameter and the other physical parameters.
3 Implementing Tunable Quantum Routing Using Chiral Waveguides
In order to compare with previous research works, we first discuss the routing capability when the coupling strengths between the atom and two waveguides are equal, so the relevant photon-atom interactions are not chiral but symmetric, λaR = λaL = λ1, λbR = λbL = λ2. For simplicity, we assume λ1 = λ2, thus ra = tb = rb. When Ω = 0, single photons incident from one waveguide a will be absorbed by the atom, which transits from its ground state to excited state. Since the excited state is coupled to a continuum of states, the excited two-level atom will emit a photon spontaneously into the propagating mode of either waveguide a or b. Consequently, mediated by the atom, single photons could be routed from one quantum channel to the other. In Figure 2A, we plot the image of the coefficients Ta, Ra and Tb + Rb, respectively. Here, Tb and Rb reach the maximum value of 0.25. In Figure 2B, we plot the figure of the coefficients Ta, Ra and Tb + Rb when Ω ≠ 0. The quantum routing due to the resonant tunneling process via the two dressed states is shown by the two peaks of the transfer rate in Figure 2B. When ω/λ = 0, Ta = 1. This is the conventional scheme for single-photon routing, which has an equal probability of routing the photon to either of the two waveguides, specifically, Tb = Rb = 0.25.
FIGURE 2
(A,B) The coefficients Ta, Ra and Tb + Rb as functions of the ω with Ω = 0 (Ω ≠ 0). Other parameters are set as follows: ωs = ωe = 0, λ1 = λ2 = λ, γ = Γ = 0.
When the coupling is chiral, λaR ≠ λaL, λbR ≠ λbL, we assume the λaL = λbL = 0, λaR = λbR = λ. In this case, we find that ra = rb = 0, which means that the Λ-type three-level system only couples to the right-propagating mode in the two waveguides. Figure 3 shows the probabilities of routing the incident photon to various output ports with respect to specific ω/λ. It indicates that the resonant photon incident from the left of waveguide a can output from the right of waveguide b with a probability of 100% whether Ω = 0 or Ω ≠ 0. But when Ω ≠ 0, Tb has two peaks centered at ω = ±Ω. If λaL = λbR = 0, λaR = λbL = λ, we can obtain ra = tb = 0, this means that the photon incident from the left of the waveguide a may output from the right of the waveguide a or the left of the waveguide b. When ω = ±Ω, Rb = 1, this means that the single photon is transferred to waveguide b and output from the left of waveguide b with a probability of 100%. In Figure 4, we show the probabilities of routing the incident photon to various output ports with respect to specific values of ω/λ, and we find that Figure 4; Figure 3 have the same physical phenomenon.
FIGURE 3
Transmission spectra of the waveguide with specific chiral photon-atom interactions, λaL = λbL = 0, λaR = λbR = λ. (A–C)Ta and Tb for different Ω = (0, 0.5, 1.5). Other parameters are set as follows: ωs = ωe = 0, γ = Γ = 0.
FIGURE 4
Transmission spectra and reflection spectra of the waveguide with specific chiral photon-atom interactions, λaL = λbR = 0, λaR = λbL = λ. (A–C)Ta and Rb for different Ω = (0, 0.5, 1.5). Other parameters are set as follows: ωs = ωe = 0, γ = Γ = 0.
4 Influence of Dissipation
In this part, we show how dissipation affects the photon routing probability. Here, we presume that λaL ≠ λaR ≠ 0 and λbR ≠ λbL ≠ 0. If ta = 0 and an incoming photon in the resonance condition (ω = ωs = ωe), we can get
Because λj = λjR + λjL (j = a, b) and
Here, we assume that Γ = γ. Consequently, the corresponding transmission coefficient Tb can be expressed [17].
Note that in the ideal case the efficiency defined above is equal to 1, whereas in a realistic case the probability leakage into the undesired channels will reduce this value. In Figure 5, we plot the coefficients Tb with different Sj as functions of the Purcell factor P. We found that the lager Purcell factor P is, the lager coefficient Tb is, but the last Tb can reach a fixed value.
FIGURE 5
The coefficients Tb as functions of Purcell factor P. Here, Sa = Sb.
Under the resonance conditions (ω = ωs = ωe), in order to observe the effect of the atomic dissipation on quantum routing more explicitly, we assume γ = Γ = 0.005. The first case is the real system with λaR = λbR = λ and λaL = λbL = 0.05λ, and we investigate the performance of the single-photon transport compared with the ideal case. However, the classical optical field can still determine the locations of the peaks of Tb. Figure 6 shows Ta and Tb as a function of ω/λ. In Figure 6A, we find that when ω = ±Ω, Tb reaches the maximum, but the maxima is less than 1, since the probabilities of the photon output from the left of waveguide a and b are not zero. The other case is when λaR = λbL = λ and λaL = λbR = 0.05λ, and we plot the figure of Ta and Rb in Figure 7. At this point, we get the same physical phenomenon as Figure 6.
FIGURE 6
(A)Ta as a function of ω/λ and (B)Tb as a function of ω/λ, here, ω = ωe = ωs, γ = Γ = 0.005, λaR = λbR = λ and λaL = λbL = 0.05λ.
FIGURE 7
(A)Ta as a function of ω/λ and (B)Rb as a function of ω/λ, here, ω = ωe = ωs, γ = Γ = 0.005, λaR = λbL = λ and λaL = λbR = 0.05λ.
5 Physical Implementation
As schematically shown in Figure 8, we consider a system in which two resonators with the same fundamental mode frequencies ωR/2π = 4.896 GHz are coupled to a superconducting qubit. The coupling frequencies between the qubit and each resonator is g/2π = 96.7 MHz. In addition to the geometric coupling gab/2π = 8.4 MHz there is the qubit mediated second-order dynamic coupling which depends on the magnetic flux applied to the qubit loop and on the qubit state, and the dynamical coupling on the qubit state can be used to realize switchable coupling between the two resonators [49–51]. The Hamiltonian of the whole system for the qubit coupled to the fundamental modes of the two resonators is (setting ℏ = 1) [49, 52].where ωQ is the qubit transition frequency, σz = σ+σ− − σ−σ+ and ga and gb are the qubit-resonator coupling, assumed to be real for simplicity. Furthermore, we denote the annihilation (creation) operators for the two resonators A and B as a and b (a† and b†), respectively. Under the rotating-wave approximation, the effective Hamiltonian is [52].where and . For the measurement, the qubit is kept in the ground state and the input power is chosen such that the mean resonator population is approximately one photon on average [50]. For coupled microwave resonators, we expect to observe two resonant modes corresponding to out-of-phase and in-phase oscillating currents in the two resonators. In this way, we can measure the transmission through the individual resonators and the transmission from the input of one resonator to the output of the second resonator [50, 51].
FIGURE 8
chematic diagram of two transmission line resonators coupled to a superconducting qubit.
6 Conclusion
In summary, we implemented a targeted single-photon router by using an effective atom-photon interface with two chiral waveguides, and no matter a classical field is turned off or turned on, it can always achieve quantum routing. Using a full quantum theory, the single-photon transmission and reflection amplitudes were analytically obtained. By the numerical method, we analyzed the relevant transport properties in detail. When the coupling between the Λ-type atom system and the waveguides is non-chiral, the maximum probability for single-photon transfer from waveguide a to waveguide b is 0.5, but at this time Tb = Rb = 0.25. In other words, we cannot directionally select quantum channels for quantum information transport in this case. When the coupling is chiral, the maximum transfer probability can achieve 100% in the ideal system. What is more, we can control single photon output from the chosen port of the waveguide b. After that, we analyzed the performance of the quantum routing. Whether we change the size of the directionalities Sj or give a certain value to the dissipation of Λ-type atom, we always found that the quantum routing has very high efficiency. Moreover, we also use the quantum circuit of the superconducting qubit coupled to two resonators verification the present scheme pretty feasible for experimental implementation. Therefore, the targeted single-photon routers we proposed here provides an effective approach to build a promising optical quantum network.
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Author contributions
The idea was first conceived by G-AY. G-AY was responsible for the physical modeling, the numerical calculations, and writing most of the manuscript. HL contributed to writing the manuscript.
Funding
This work are supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (12147146 and 12175057), and the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Provincial (ZR2021QA046) and Shaanxi Youth Outstanding Talent Support Plan and Shaanxi Natural Science Foundation (Grant No. 2019JQ-900).
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Summary
Keywords
photon-atom interactions, quantum router, chiral waveguides, quantum coherence, purcell factor
Citation
Yan G-A and Lu H (2022) Realization of Tunable Highly-Efficient Quantum Routing in Chiral Waveguides. Front. Phys. 10:880117. doi: 10.3389/fphy.2022.880117
Received
21 February 2022
Accepted
03 March 2022
Published
22 March 2022
Volume
10 - 2022
Edited by
Guangling Cheng, East China Jiaotong University, China
Reviewed by
Minghao Wang, Hubei University, China
Meng Shan Wu, Hainan University, China
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