Andrew Cleland, University of California
Abstract
I will present a description of recent experiments at UC Santa Barbara demonstrating coherent control of individual quanta of light (in the microwave band) and sound (also in the microwave band). In the experiments, superconducting quantum bits are used to control and measure these quanta, and can be used to generate both Fock number states and their superpositions, states that can be stored either in an electromagnetic or a mechanical resonator. If time permits, more recent work will be presented showing NOON state generation in a pair of electromagnetic resonators, representing quantum entanglement over a distance of a few millimeters, and playing a "shell game" with photons in a multiple-resonator geometry.