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Abstract

Surface acoustic waves (SAWs) are vibrations propagating on the surface of a material, widely used in classical electronics. In recent years, they have attracted growing interest as a means of linking distant quantum systems, such as spins or semiconductor qubits. In our work, we use superconducting qubits to emit and reabsorb single phonons, enabling quantum states to be transferred and remote entanglement to be generated between two qubits. We have also been able to demonstrate two-phonon entanglement and perform a quantum eraser experiment with sound waves, illustrating their potential for quantum sensing.

Audrey Bienfait

Audrey Bienfait

Audrey Bienfait completed her Ph.D. in the Quantronics group at CEA Saclay (France) in 2016. There, she worked with Patrice Bertet on coupling spins to high quality factor small-mode-volume superconducting resonators, enabling high-sensitivity electron spin resonance detection and a spin initialization mechanism via the Purcell effect. She then realized a post-doc in the Cleland group at the University of Chicago (USA), where she coupled remote superconducting qubits using traveling phonons and realized acoustic interferometry experiments. In 2019, she joined the Quantum Circuit group as a CNRS researcher. She received the Bruker thesis prize and the Michelson post-doctoral lectureship prize. Her current research interests are electronic spins, superconducting circuits, and various microwave transduction, sensing and storage schemes.

Speaker(s)

Audrey Bienfait

CNRS Research Fellow, Physics Laboratory at ENS Lyon