A review of microwave quantum optics with superconducting quantum circuits
After more than two and a half years of work, we have finally published the most comprehensive review to date of superconducting quantum circuits and their uses in microwave quantum optics. Superconducting quantum circuits incorporating Josephson junctions can function as artificial atoms and couple strongly, even ultrastrongly, to microwave photons. Since the properties of these artificial atoms can be designed, and sometimes tuned in situ, this platform can be used to explore both old and new regimes of quantum optics and atomic physics. Furthermore, superconducting quantum circuits are perhaps the most promising systems for quantum computing and quantum simulation. We tried to give as complete an overview of the field as possible, citing almost 1400 references. Several sections of the review can almost be considered reviews in their own right, e.g.: "Qubits and resonators", "Other microwave components", "Waveguide QED", "Photon generation", and "Photon detection". The article is available as open access. The figure above shows, from left to right, cavity QED with natural atoms, a 2D array of ion traps, and a superconducting transmission-line resonator with superconducting qubits.
Microwave photonics with superconducting quantum circuits
Xiu Gu*, Anton Frisk Kockum*, Adam Miranowicz, Yu-xi Liu, and Franco Nori
arXiv:1707.02046
*Equal author contributions
