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Engineering multi-photon dissipation with a dc-voltage-biased Josephson junction
Abstract
Multi-photon dissipation – a key resource for bosonic qubits – is usually realized by parametrically pumping a Josephson coupler at the cost of spurious nonlinear terms. Here we instead engineer it using a dc-voltage-biased SQUID, such that these parasitic terms average out. We activate the conversion of one, two, or four photons of a high-Q mode into a single photon of a lossy mode. We characterize the two-photon dissipation by Wigner tomography, establishing dc-biased junctions as a resource for reservoir engineering and a viable route to cat-qubit stabilization
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BibTeX
@misc{paradina2026engineering,
title = {{Engineering multi-photon dissipation with a dc-voltage-biased Josephson junction}},
author = {Marco Paradina and Ambroise Peugeot and Roberto Negrin and Oscar Novat and Tristan Villain and Anil Murani and Jean-Loup Ville and Sébastien Jezouin and Raphaël Lescanne and Audrey Bienfait and Benjamin Huard},
howpublished = {HAL},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2608.31154},
eprint = {2608.31154},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://hal.science/hal-05800372v1},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Engineering multi-photon dissipation with a dc-voltage-biased Josephson junction
AU - Marco Paradina
AU - Ambroise Peugeot
AU - Roberto Negrin
AU - Oscar Novat
AU - Tristan Villain
AU - Anil Murani
AU - Jean-Loup Ville
AU - Sébastien Jezouin
AU - Raphaël Lescanne
AU - Audrey Bienfait
AU - Benjamin Huard
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/25
PB - HAL
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2608.31154
UR - https://hal.science/hal-05800372v1
AB - Multi-photon dissipation – a key resource for bosonic qubits – is usually realized by parametrically pumping a Josephson coupler at the cost of spurious nonlinear terms. Here we instead engineer it using a dc-voltage-biased SQUID, such that these parasitic terms average out. We activate the conversion of one, two, or four photons of a high-Q mode into a single photon of a lossy mode. We characterize the two-photon dissipation by Wigner tomography, establishing dc-biased junctions as a resource for reservoir engineering and a viable route to cat-qubit stabilization
ER -