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Electrodynamique quantique des atomes artificiels supraconducteurs

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Auteur / Autrice : Igor Diniz
Direction : Alexia Auffèves-GarnierJean-Philippe Poizat
Type : Thèse de doctorat
Discipline(s) : Physique
Date : Soutenance le 22/10/2012
Etablissement(s) : Grenoble
Ecole(s) doctorale(s) : École doctorale physique (Grenoble ; 1991-....)
Partenaire(s) de recherche : Laboratoire : Institut Néel (Grenoble)
Jury : Président / Présidente : Olivier Buisson
Examinateurs / Examinatrices : Alexia Auffèves-Garnier, Jean-Philippe Poizat, Patrice Bertet, Marcelo paleologo França santos
Rapporteurs / Rapporteuses : Jean-Michel Raimond, Klaus Molmer

Résumé

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This thesis focuses on two problems in circuit quantum electrodynamics. We first investigate theoretically the coupling of a resonator to a continuous distribution of inhomogeneously broadened emitters. Studying this formalism is strongly motivated by recent proposals to use collections of emitters as quantum memories for individual excitations. Such systems benefit from the collective enhancement of the interaction strength, while keeping the relaxation properties of a single emitter. We discuss the influence of the emitters inhomogeneous broadening on the existence and on the coherence properties of the polaritonic peaks. We find that their coherence depends crucially on the shape of the distribution and not only on its width. Taking into account the inhomogeneous broadening allows to simulate with a great accuracy a number of pioneer experimental results on a ensemble of NV centers. The modeling is shown to be a powerful tool to obtain the properties of the spin ensembles coupled to a resonator. We also suggest an original Josephson qubit readout method based on a dc-SQUID with high loop inductance. This system supports a diamond-shape artificial atom where we define logical and ancilla qubits coupled through a cross-Kerr like term. Depending on the logical qubit state, the ancilla is resonantly or dispersively coupled to the resonator, leading to a large contrast in the transmitted microwave signal amplitude. Simulations show that this original method can be faster and have higher fidelity than methods currently used in circuit QED.