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Quantum Breakthrough: First-Ever Entanglement of Microwave and Optical Photons

July 13, 2023
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Quantum Breakthrough: First-Ever Entanglement of Microwave and Optical Photons
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Artistic Rendering of the Experimental Device With the Beam Optical Photons Entering and Leaving the Electro Optic Crystal

Artistic rendering of the experimental device with the beam optical photons (red) entering and leaving the electro-optic crystal and resonating within its circular portion as well as the generated microwave photons (blue) leaving the device. Credit: Eli Krantz, Krantz NanoArt

For the very first time, researchers at ISTA entangled microwave and optical photons.

Quantum computing holds the potential to tackle complex issues in fields like material science and cryptography, problems that will remain out of reach even for the most powerful conventional supercomputers in the future. However, accomplishing this feat will likely necessitate millions of high-quality qubits, given the error correction needed.

Progress in superconducting processors advances quickly with a current qubit count in the few hundreds. The appeal of this technology lies in its swift computational speed and compatibility with microchip fabrication. However, the requirement for extremely low temperatures places a limit on the processor’s size and prevents any physical access once it is cooled down.

A modular quantum computer with multiple separately cooled processor nodes could solve this. However, single microwave photons—the particles of light that are the native information carriers between superconducting qubits within the processors—are not suitable to be sent through a room temperature environment between the processors. The world at room temperature is bustling with heat, which easily disturbs the microwave photons and their fragile quantum properties like entanglement.

Researchers from the Fink group at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA), together with collaborators from TU Wien and the Technical University of Munich, demonstrated an important technological step to overcome these challenges. They entangled low-energy microwaves with high-energy optical photons for the very first time.

Such an entangled quantum state of two photons is the foundation to wire up superconducting quantum computers via room temperature links. This has implications not only for scaling up existing quantum hardware but it is also needed to realize interconnects to other quantum computing platforms as well as for novel quantum-enhanced remote sensing applications. Their results have been published in the journal Science.

Qubit Infographic

Qubits are the basic informational units of quantum computers. They come with a unique variety of properties like entanglement. Entanglement is important for quantum computers because it allows them to do computations in a way that is impossible for non-quantum computers. Credit: Mark Belan/ISTA

Cooling Away the Noise

Rishabh Sahu, a postdoc in the Fink group and one of the first authors of the new study, explains, “One major problem for any qubit is noise. Noise can be thought of as any disturbance to the qubit. One major source of noise is the heat of the material the qubit is based on.”

Heat causes atoms in a material to jostle around rapidly. This is disruptive to quantum properties like entanglement, and as a result, it would make qubits unsuitable for computation. Therefore, to remain functional, a quantum computer must have its qubits isolated from the environment, cooled to extremely low temperatures, and kept within a vacuum to preserve their quantum properties.

For superconducting qubits, this happens in a special cylindrical device that hangs from the ceiling, called a “dilution refrigerator” in which the “quantum” part of the computation takes place. The qubits at its very bottom are cooled down to only a few thousandths of a degree above absolute zero temperature—at about -273 degrees Celsius. Sahu excitedly adds, “This makes these fridges in our labs the coldest locations in the whole universe, even colder than space itself.”

Experimental Setup With the Dilution Refrigerator, the Superconducting Cavity, and the Electro Optic Crystal

The experimental setup with the dilution refrigerator, the superconducting cavity, and the electro-optic crystal splitting and entangling the photons. Credit: Mark Belan/ISTA

The refrigerator has to continuously cool the qubits but the more qubits and associated control wiring are added, the more heat is generated and the harder it is to keep the quantum computer cool. “The scientific community predicts that at around 1,000 superconducting qubits in a single quantum computer, we reach the limits of cooling,” Sahu cautions. “Just scaling up is not a sustainable solution to construct more powerful quantum computers.”

Fink adds, “Larger machines are in development but each assembly and cooldown then becomes comparable to a rocket launch, where you only find out about problems once the processor is cold and without the ability to intervene and correct such problems.”

Quantum Waves

“If a dilution fridge cannot sufficiently cool more than a thousand superconducting qubits at once, we need to link several smaller quantum computers to work together,” Liu Qiu, a postdoc in the Fink group and another first author of the new study, explains. “We would need a quantum network.”

Linking together two superconducting quantum computers, each with its own dilution refrigerator is not as straightforward as connecting them with an electrical cable. The connection needs special consideration to preserve the quantum nature of the qubits.

Superconducting qubits work with tiny electrical currents that move back and forth in a circuit at frequencies about ten billion times per second. They interact using microwave photons—particles of light. Their frequencies are similar to the ones used by cellphones.

The problem is that even a small amount of heat would easily disturb single microwave photons and their quantum properties needed to connect the qubits in two separate quantum computers. When passing through a cable outside the refrigerator, the heat of the environment would render them useless.

“Instead of the noise-prone microwave photons that we need to do the computations within the quantum computer, we want to use optical photons with much higher frequencies similar to visible light to network quantum computers together,” Qiu explains. These optical photons are the same kind sent through optical fibers that deliver high-speed internet to our homes. This technology is well understood and much less susceptible to noise from heat. Qiu adds, “The challenge was how to have the microwave photons interact with the optical photons and how to entangle them.”

Splitting Light

In their new study, the researchers used a special electro-optic device: an optical resonator made from a nonlinear crystal, which changes its optical properties in the presence of an electric field. A superconducting cavity houses this crystal and enhances this interaction.

Sahu and Qiu used a laser to send billions of optical photons into the electro-optic crystal for a fraction of a microsecond. In this way, one optical photon splits into a pair of new entangled photons: an optical one with only slightly less energy than the original one and a microwave photon with much lower energy.

“The challenge of this experiment was that the optical photons have about 20,000 times more energy than the microwave photons,” Sahu explains, “and they bring a lot of energy and therefore heat into the device that can then destroy the quantum properties of the microwave photons. We have worked for months tweaking the experiment and getting the right measurements.”

To solve this problem, the researchers built a bulkier superconducting device compared to previous attempts. This not only avoids a breakdown of superconductivity, but it also helps to cool the device more effectively and to keep it cold during the short timescales of the optical laser pulses.

“The breakthrough is that the two photons leaving the device—the optical and the microwave photon—are entangled,” Qiu explains. “This has been verified by measuring correlations between the quantum fluctuations of the electromagnetic fields of the two photons that are stronger than can be explained by classical physics.”

“We are now the first to entangle photons of such vastly different energy scales.” Fink says, “This is a key step to creating a quantum network and also useful for other quantum technologies, such as quantum-enhanced sensing.”

Reference: “Entangling microwaves with light” by R. Sahu, L. Qiu, W. Hease, G. Arnold, Y. Minoguchi, P. Rabl and J. M. Fink, 18 May 2023, Science.
DOI: 10.1126/science.adg3812

The study was funded by the European Research Council, the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme, and the Austrian Science Fund.

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