Tunable joint measurements in the dispersive regime of cavity QED

TitleTunable joint measurements in the dispersive regime of cavity QED
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2010
AuthorsLalumiere K, Gambetta JM, Blais A
JournalPhysical Review A
Volume81
Pagination301–301
ISSN1050-2947
AbstractJoint measurements of multiple qubits open new possibilities for quantum information processing. Here we present an approach based on homodyne detection to realize such measurements in the dispersive regime of cavity or circuit QED. By changing details of the measurement, the readout can be tuned from extracting only single-qubit to extracting only multiqubit properties. We obtain a reduced stochastic master equation describing this measurement and its effect on the qubits. As an example, we present results showing parity measurements of two qubits. In this situation, measurement of an initially unentangled state can yield, with near unit probability, a state of significant concurrence.