Enabling Deterministic Passive Quantum State Transfer with Giant Atoms
Abstract
Achieving quantum state transfer in passive ways can become a powerful asset for scalable quantum networks. Here, we demonstrate how giant atoms coupled to 1D waveguides provide a platform for such a passive, deterministic transfer. Specifically, we show that when the giant atom's extent is comparable to the width of the emitted wavepacket, this wavepacket can be designed to be time-reversal-symmetric by engineering the positions and strengths of atom-waveguide coupling points. We first derive general analytical conditions under which arbitrary qubit decays can be mapped to wavevector-dependent couplings that guarantee perfect state transfer in the continuum limit of infinitely many coupling points. Then, for experimentally relevant configurations with a finite number of coupling points, we optimize the coupling positions and values. We demonstrate that the transfer fidelity can be boosted well beyond the value for a single coupling point (54%), reaching 87% with only two coupling points and exceeding 99% with ten or more. We further analyze the robustness of the protocol against disorder in the coupling points as well as frequency variations of the qubits and extend the formalism to environments with nonlinear dispersion, showing that dispersion-induced distortions can be fully compensated by judiciously chosen setups. Our results establish giant atoms as a powerful platform for realizing high-fidelity quantum state transfer and demonstrate how time-dependent control can be instead encoded into the device design.
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BibTeX
@misc{diekmann2026enabling,
title = {{Enabling Deterministic Passive Quantum State Transfer with Giant Atoms}},
author = {Oliver Diekmann and Enrico Di Benedetto and Nicolas Jungwirth and Daniele De Bernardis and Zeyu Kuang and Francesco Ciccarello and Stefan Rotter and Peter Rabl and Alejandro Gonzalez-Tudela and Carlos Gonzalez-Ballestero},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2605.12018},
eprint = {2605.12018},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.12018},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Enabling Deterministic Passive Quantum State Transfer with Giant Atoms
AU - Oliver Diekmann
AU - Enrico Di Benedetto
AU - Nicolas Jungwirth
AU - Daniele De Bernardis
AU - Zeyu Kuang
AU - Francesco Ciccarello
AU - Stefan Rotter
AU - Peter Rabl
AU - Alejandro Gonzalez-Tudela
AU - Carlos Gonzalez-Ballestero
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/15
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2605.12018
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.12018
AB - Achieving quantum state transfer in passive ways can become a powerful asset for scalable quantum networks. Here, we demonstrate how giant atoms coupled to 1D waveguides provide a platform for such a passive, deterministic transfer. Specifically, we show that when the giant atom's extent is comparable to the width of the emitted wavepacket, this wavepacket can be designed to be time-reversal-symmetric by engineering the positions and strengths of atom-waveguide coupling points. We first derive general analytical conditions under which arbitrary qubit decays can be mapped to wavevector-dependent couplings that guarantee perfect state transfer in the continuum limit of infinitely many coupling points. Then, for experimentally relevant configurations with a finite number of coupling points, we optimize the coupling positions and values. We demonstrate that the transfer fidelity can be boosted well beyond the value for a single coupling point (54%), reaching 87% with only two coupling points and exceeding 99% with ten or more. We further analyze the robustness of the protocol against disorder in the coupling points as well as frequency variations of the qubits and extend the formalism to environments with nonlinear dispersion, showing that dispersion-induced distortions can be fully compensated by judiciously chosen setups. Our results establish giant atoms as a powerful platform for realizing high-fidelity quantum state transfer and demonstrate how time-dependent control can be instead encoded into the device design.
ER -