Electric fields for light: Propagation of microwave photons along a synthetic dimension

Amir H. Safavi-Naeini; E. Alex Wollack; Marek Pechal; Nathan R. A. Lee; Patricio Arrangoiz-Arriola; Zhaoyou Wang

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Electric fields for light: Propagation of microwave photons along a synthetic dimension

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Pith's one-line read Parametric flux modulation makes the modes of a single superconducting resonator behave as a tight-binding lattice, with photons hopping between frequency sites and displaying band dispersion and Bloch oscillations.

desk verdict Genuine experimental first—photon wavepackets, dispersion, and Bloch oscillations on a synthetic frequency lattice in a superconducting resonator—with one unresolved parasitic-coupling caveat that warrants a revised version. read the letter →

arxiv 1908.10329 v1 pith:6RZTAJE5 submitted 2019-08-27 quant-ph physics.optics

Nathan R. A. Lee , Marek Pechal , E. Alex Wollack , Patricio Arrangoiz-Arriola , Zhaoyou Wang , Amir H. Safavi-Naeini This is my paper · ORCID

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keywords syntheticdimensionsuperconductingresonatortight-bindingmodelmicrowavephotonsBlochoscillationsparametricmodulationFloquetengineeringquantumsimulation

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The reading

This paper demonstrates that the many equally spaced frequency modes of one superconducting microwave resonator can act as sites of a synthetic lattice, with photons hopping between sites when the resonator's flux-tunable superconducting termination is modulated near its free spectral range. The measured propagation matches a nearest-neighbor tight-binding model: an initially localized excitation spreads within a light cone, the extracted dispersion is a cosine band, and phase-calibrated wavepackets move in a chosen direction. Detuning the modulation creates a uniform on-site energy gradient, and the photons undergo Bloch oscillations with the predicted period, showing that charge-neutral photons can simulate a charged particle in an electric field. The appeal is hardware economy: one flux-control line and one readout port address an entire lattice, pointing toward single-chip analog quantum simulators for topological and many-body physics.

What carries the argument

The central object is the synthetic lattice in frequency space: the evenly spaced modes of the coplanar waveguide resonator are relabeled as lattice sites, and the flux-tunable SQUID array at one end acts as a parametric coupler. A modulation tone at $\Omega \approx \Delta\omega$ makes each mode exchange a modulation photon when hopping to a neighboring site, which in the rotating frame and under the rotating-wave approximation becomes a nearest-neighbor hopping term $J_{m,m+1}$; detuning the tone by $\Delta$ turns into a linear on-site potential $n\Delta$, the synthetic electric field. Around this sits the input-output scattering formalism (Eqs. 5, 9, 10), which converts the tight-binding Hamiltonian into quantitative predictions for VNA reflection spectra and time-domain envelopes, and a two-site interference calibration that fixes the relative phases needed to launch wavepackets with controlled quasimomentum.

What would settle it

Measure the avoided-crossing gap between neighboring sites as a function of flux bias $F$ and modulation amplitude $\delta f$, and check whether it follows the predicted $J \propto \sin(F) J_1(\delta f)$ with the fitted parameters; a systematic deviation as the bias approaches the tangent singularity $|f/\pi \bmod 1| \approx 0.5$ or as the modulation enters the regime $d^2\tan^2(f)\not\ll 1$ would falsify the single-SQUID approximation.

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Core claim

The paper's central claim is that modulating the flux through the SQUID termination at a frequency $\Omega$ close to the resonator's free spectral range ($\Delta\omega/2\pi \approx 155.5$ MHz) creates a tight-binding Hamiltonian acting on the resonator modes, and that the observed microwave-photon dynamics follow that Hamiltonian. In the rotating frame the mode amplitudes obey $\dot{b}_m = (-i\Delta_m - \kappa_m/2)b_m - i\sum_k J_{m,m+k}b_{m+k} + \sqrt{\kappa_m^e} b_m^{\rm in}$, with nearest-neighbor hopping $J_{m,m+1} = -E_{J0}\varphi_m^{zp}\varphi_{m+1}^{zp}\sin(F)\,J_1(\delta f)\,e^{-i\theta_1}$. The evidence presented includes light-cone spreading of a single-site excitation at a speed set by $|J|$, a dispersion relation from a two-dimensional Fourier transform that peaks along $\omega(k) = 2|J|\cos(k + \theta_{\rm mod})$, phase-calibrated five-site wavepackets that move with designed group velocity and reflect off disordered barrier sites, and, for detuned modulation, Bloch oscillations with period $T_B = 2\pi/|\Delta|$ interpreted as the response of neutral photons to a simulated uniform electric field. Steady-state and pulsed scattering parameters are reproduced by the same model with only the modulation amplitude as a free parameter.

Load-bearing premise

The load-bearing premise is that the eight-SQUID termination behaves as a single effective SQUID whose junction phases follow the applied flux adiabatically, with no phase slips and only perturbative junction asymmetry; the paper estimates, rather than directly measures, the conditions guaranteeing this.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

A single modulation tone delivered through one flux line programs the whole lattice, so tight-binding, topological, and many-body simulations that normally require large arrays of individually addressed elements could be run on one multimode resonator with a single readout port.
The hopping amplitude is controlled in situ by the modulation amplitude through a Bessel function, and the on-site potential by the detuning, giving a continuously tunable band structure and synthetic force without changing the device.
Modulating at multiples of the free spectral range produces second-neighbor coupling and, with two tones, an asymmetric dispersion that acts like a synthetic gauge field, as demonstrated qualitatively in the appendix.
Because the input-output equations are linear, the same transport physics should carry over to single photons and to states entangled with a qubit coupled at one site, opening the route to quantum simulations in this hardware.
A $\pi$ phase jump in the modulation reverses the sign of the hopping, giving a partial time-reversal that can refocus a spread excitation; the paper reports preliminary experimental support for this revival.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

If the fabrication-induced 'barrier sites' are eliminated, the same resonator should show clean tight-binding propagation across the full sublattice for much longer than 1 microsecond; Appendix L's one-dimensional scattering model gives a concrete reflected-amplitude prediction that a cleaner device could test directly.
The Bessel-function dependence implies a modulation amplitude at which $J$ passes through zero; at that operating point the excitation should remain frozen at its initial site, a sharp experimental check of Eq. (6) that the paper does not perform.
The demonstrated dynamics are classical coherent-state dynamics; the decisive quantum test—that a single photon or a superposition state propagates with the same tight-binding amplitudes and preserves coherence across hopping events—remains an inference from the linear theory, not an experimental result here.
The asymmetric dispersion seen with two-tone modulation is read as a synthetic gauge field; measuring the phase accumulated by a wavepacket around a closed loop in the synthetic dimension would expose whether that interpretation holds as an effective magnetic field.

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Bottom line: this is a genuinely new experimental result. Time-domain photon propagation along a synthetic frequency lattice in a superconducting resonator, with site-resolved observation of light-cone spreading, a fitted cosine dispersion, controlled wavepacket motion, and Bloch oscillations. The paper is careful: the theory model is derived in detail, the single fitted modulation amplitude is disclosed, and the appendices do an unusually thorough job of documenting calibration, disorder, and even effects they couldn't explain. That honesty is a real strength.

What's actually new: synthetic dimensions have been done in cold atoms, fiber loops, and optical waveguides; this is the first demonstration in a multimode superconducting circuit with few control lines, and the time-domain site-resolved measurements are an advance over the frequency-domain approaches in related work (including the Dutt fiber work). The Bloch oscillations with period set by detuning are clean, and the wavepacket directionality is controlled by calibrated phase gradients across sites. The quantitative comparison to theory is respectable—avoided crossings, light cones, and the extracted 2D dispersion all line up with the tight-binding model, including the known variation of coupling with mode number.

Soft spots, in order of real concern. First, Appendix K documents oscillations when the modulation is nominally off, at ~4 MHz, in the same frequency band as the main experiments, and the authors say this is not accounted for even by a disordered Hamiltonian. That's a genuine open question for the quantitative claim: if a parasitic coupling is present in the main pulse sequence, some of the observed 'tight-binding' dynamics could have an uncontrolled contribution. The authors disclose it, which is good, but they don't rule it out for the data in Figs. 3-4. This is the main reason to be conditional rather than fully accept. Second, the demonstration is confined to a 12-site clean sublattice; the barrier sites are excluded, and theory/data agree only for about a microsecond before reflections from barriers matter. That's a limitation but clearly stated. Third, the single-SQUID approximation for the 8-SQUID array is validated by estimates rather than direct measurement, and the microscopic coupling prediction has one fitted parameter (0.062 Phi0) plus the dispersion fit gives J_fit, so the comparison is partly calibration. None of these break the central demonstration—the data are internally consistent and the effects are robust—but they should be addressed in revision or follow-up.

Who this is for: anyone working on synthetic dimensions in circuit QED, multimode microwave cavities, or analog quantum simulation. It deserves serious peer review, and the referees should push for a clean characterization of the parasitic effect, either showing it's absent in the main sequence or including it in the model. I'd recommend sending it out.

Referee Report

3 major / 3 minor

Summary. The paper reports an experimental realization of a synthetic frequency dimension in a multimode superconducting coplanar-waveguide resonator terminated by a SQUID array. Flux modulation at frequencies near the free spectral range is used to induce nearest-neighbor tight-binding coupling between resonator modes, and the authors observe coupled-mode dynamics in time domain: avoided crossings in reflection spectra, light-cone spreading of a single-site excitation, an approximate cosine dispersion extracted from a two-dimensional Fourier transform, directional propagation of momentum-selected wavepackets, and Bloch oscillations under detuned modulation. The theoretical model is a rotating-frame tight-binding Hamiltonian with on-site disorder and loss, with nearest-neighbor couplings derived from the modulated SQUID-array Josephson energy. The experiments use coherent states with large photon numbers, and the manuscript includes extensive appendices on fabrication, calibration, the derivation of the coupling rates, the single-SQUID array approximation, and several unmodeled effects.

Significance. If the central claim is accepted, this is a valuable demonstration: it extends synthetic-dimension photonics to superconducting circuits with minimal hardware overhead, shows site-resolved time-domain control of frequency modes, and provides a platform that could connect to qubits and nonlinearities. The manuscript is notable for its transparency: appendices D, F, G, I, K, and L give detailed derivations and candidly state limitations, including unmodeled parasitic oscillations and the approximate nature of several calibration steps. The main experimental features—avoided crossings, light-cone spreading, Bloch recurrences, and directional wavepacket motion—are qualitatively clear and independently plausible. However, the quantitative comparison between experiment and theory is not fully parameter-free, and one admitted unmodeled effect in Appendix K operates in the same frequency band as the main experiments, so the central demonstration requires additional support before publication.

major comments (3)

[Appendix K, Figs. 10b, 10d] The manuscript states that 'small oscillations in the output amplitudes when the modulation is off, which is not accounted for by the model presented in this work, even with a disordered Hamiltonian,' and that neighboring-site oscillations are out of phase with envelopes resembling Bloch oscillations at about 4 MHz, implying parasitic modulation near 155.1 ± 4 MHz. This is the same frequency band used in the main pulsed experiments of Figs. 3 and 4, whose interpretation assumes a known and controlled modulation envelope. The authors should either demonstrate that this parasitic coupling is absent or negligible during the main pulse sequences, quantify its amplitude and include it in the model, or explicitly restrict the central claims to the regime where the parasitic effect is shown to be negligible.
[Section III B and Section IV A, Figs. 3c-d and 4a] The quantitative theory comparison is partly calibration rather than prediction: the modulation flux amplitude is set to 0.062Φ0 'to best match the trace at n = 0,' and the dispersion measurement is used to fit |J_fit/2π| = 1.25 MHz. The paper should clearly distinguish observables predicted from independently measured flux-tuning parameters from those used for fitting, and should give a sensitivity estimate showing how strongly the comparisons in Fig. 3 depend on the fitted modulation amplitude and on J_fit.
[Appendix F, Eq. (6)] The derivation of the nearest-neighbor coupling rate J_{m,m+1} in Eq. (6) relies on treating the eight-SQUID termination as a single effective SQUID, with validity conditions ω²/ω_s² ≪ 1, absence of phase slips, and d² tan² f ≪ 1. These conditions are estimated rather than directly verified, and the extracted J_fit can absorb errors in the microscopic prediction. The authors should state more explicitly how sensitive the central conclusions are to the single-SQUID approximation, or provide an independent check of at least one of its conditions.

minor comments (3)

[Section III A] The text says the modulation duration is τmod ∼ 4–32 ns, but the displayed dynamics and the stated 15.934 μs modulation duration in Section IV A are on the microsecond scale; this appears to be a unit error and should be corrected.
[Abstract and Section II C] The abstract mentions generalizing to 'single-photon power levels,' but all demonstrated dynamics use coherent states with |β|² ≈ 10–1000. The wording should make clear that single-photon operation is a projection for future work, not a demonstrated result.
[Appendix H] The calibration in Appendix H relies on the assumptions Smn[ω] = Snm[ω] and vmn[ω]/vnm[ω] being constant across a site bandwidth, and the text notes that this is not exactly validated by the data. A brief statement of how errors in this assumption affect the extracted spectra would strengthen the appendix.

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No significant circularity: the tight-binding derivation and the main predictions are self-contained; the only calibration is an explicitly disclosed drive-amplitude fit.

full rationale

The central derivation is self-contained: Eqs. (2)-(6) and Appendix D obtain the nearest-neighbor coupling J_{m,m+1} from the circuit Hamiltonian, the SQUID-array Josephson energy, and the rotating-wave approximation, without using the measured dynamics as input. The Fig. 3 theory comparison uses one stated free parameter, the flux modulation amplitude delta-f = 0.062 Phi0, explicitly chosen from the n = 0 trace; this is a transparent drive calibration, and the same simulation then accounts for the multi-site light cone, barrier reflections, and Bloch oscillations, which are not encoded by that single-trace fit. The dispersion in Fig. 4a is an extraction: peaks are fitted to the cosine form to obtain J_fit, and J_fit is then used in a separate wavepacket experiment to predict the group velocity, a legitimate calibration-prediction chain. The Bloch oscillation period is fixed independently by the detuning Delta ~ 3 MHz and is observed without fitting. Self-citations (Refs. 47-49 and 53-54) are methodological and do not carry the argument. Appendix K candidly reports parasitic oscillations when the modulation is nominally off that are not captured by the model; this is an admitted robustness limitation, not a circular step, because the model is not defined in terms of that observation. No step reduces a claimed prediction to its own input by construction.

Assumptions & free parameters 5 free parameters · 4 assumptions · 0 invented entities

No new physical entities are introduced. The synthetic frequency dimension is a mapping of the resonator's discrete modes onto lattice sites; no new particle, field, or conserved quantity is postulated.

free parameters (5)

Modulation flux amplitude delta_f = 0.062 Phi0 (0.031 Phi0 for Fig. 4d)
The only free parameter in the theory model of Fig. 3, chosen to best match the measured n=0 trace (Section III B, Fig. 3e); it sets the scale of all coupling rates.
Flux-tuning parameters G, Vss, omega_RT, A, B, d_sq^2, omega_s = G = 0.0796 V^-1, Vss = 4.481 V, omega_RT/2pi = 155.52 MHz, A = 40.11, B = 4479, d_sq^2 < 0.01, omega_s/2pi = 21.0 GHz…
Fit to the resonator tuning curve (Eq. 7); the paper notes B and d_sq^2 are poorly constrained by the fit, while G and Vss are well constrained.
Coupling rate J_fit = 1.25 MHz
Extracted by fitting measured dispersion peak positions to omega(k) = 2|J|cos(k) (Section IV A).
On-site energies Delta_m and loss rates kappa_m = not tabulated in text
Extracted from fitting uncoupled-mode peaks and used directly in the model simulation of Eq. 5 (Section III B).
Calibration phases theta_calib_n and amplitude ratios r = exemplified by theta_calib_{n=-1} = -0.20 pi
Fitted from two-site interference patterns to set wavepacket phases and amplitudes (Section IV B, Appendix I).

assumptions (4)

domain assumption SQUID-terminated resonator Hamiltonian H(t) = sum omega_n a_n^dagger a_n + D(t) phi_d^2 with quartic terms neglected (Eq. 2)
Adopted from the parametric-amplifier formalism of refs 47-49; requires low mean photon numbers so the cosine Josephson potential is quadratic.
standard math Rotating wave approximation with Omega >> (|Delta_m|, kappa_m, |D_k phi_zp_m phi_zp_n|), neglecting counter-rotating and squeezing terms
Stated in Section II A and Appendix D to be satisfied for all accessed modes; discards terms oscillating at about 2 omega'_m.
domain assumption Single-SQUID equivalence for the 8-SQUID array: phases follow a voltage-divider distribution pinned to the potential minimum with no phase slips
Appendix F requires omega^2/omega_s^2 << 1, no phase slips (|phi_d| << 1), and d^2 tan^2(f) << 1; conditions are estimated from parameters, not directly measured.
domain assumption Near-uniform mode spacing with disorder small relative to coupling, sqrt(Delta^2 + kappa^2)/|J| ~ 0.1
Required for the rotating-frame tight-binding picture, the cos(k) dispersion, and Bloch oscillations; supported by the observed propagation but device-specific.

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The evenly-spaced modes of an electromagnetic resonator are coupled to each other by appropriate time-modulation, leading to dynamics analogous to those of particles hopping between different sites of a lattice. This substitution of a real spatial dimension of a lattice with a "synthetic'" dimension in frequency space greatly reduces the hardware complexity of an analog quantum simulator. Complex control and read-out of a highly multi-moded structure can thus be accomplished with very few physical control lines. We demonstrate this concept with microwave photons in a superconducting transmission line resonator by modulating the system parameters at frequencies near the resonator's free spectral range and observing propagation of photon wavepackets in time domain. The linear propagation dynamics are equivalent to a tight-binding model, which we probe by measuring scattering parameters between frequency sites. We extract an approximate tight-binding dispersion relation for the synthetic lattice and initialize photon wavepackets with well-defined quasimomenta and group velocities. As an example application of this platform in simulating a physical system, we demonstrate Bloch oscillations associated with a particle in a periodic potential and subject to a constant external field. The simulated field strongly affects the photon dynamics despite photons having zero charge. Our observation of photon dynamics along a synthetic frequency dimension generalizes immediately to topological photonics and single-photon power levels, and expands the range of physical systems addressable by quantum simulation.

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Figures reproduced from arXiv: 1908.10329 by the authors.

**Figure 2.** c contains scattering parameters between a common input site and three neighboring output sites, calculated in the rotating frame. Spectra were measured by first exciting site n = 0 with a long pulse from one AWG channel while no modulation is applied, switching on the modulation shortly after the excitation pulse ends, and then detecting the output field from each site (this scheme is described in more detail in … view at source ↗

**Figure 3.** c and d display experiment and theory for propagation driven by resonant modulation at 155.1 MHz. The envelope spreads out in a light cone for the first 0.5 µs, at a rate bounded by the maximum local group velocity55: |v max g,n | ≈ 2|Jn| sites per unit time. The light cone tilts slightly to the left due to the systematic variation in coupling rates, which scale as 1/nabs. Near t = 0.5 µs the envelope reaches two … view at source ↗

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**Figure 4.** Figure 4: FIG. 4 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_4.png]

**Figure 5.** Figure 5: FIG. 5 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_5.png]

**Figure 6.** Figure 6: FIG. 6 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_6.png]

**Figure 7.** Figure 7: FIG. 7 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_7.png]

**Figure 8.** Figure 8: (d, e) compares experimental interference data with a theoretical calculation using uniform coupling and loss rates. Voltage magnitudes are plotted without squaring to show better contrast in the oscillations at later times. The calculation shows a sinusoidal relatio…

**Figure 9.** Figure 9: b contains data for two-tone modulation at (1, 2)Ω/2π = (155.1, 310.2) MHz, with a least-squares fit to: ω(k) = 2|J1| cos(kfΩ) + 2|J2| cos(2kfΩ + θ2) + 2|J4| cos(4kfΩ + 2θ2) (J2) The two-tone drive introduces a gauge-invariant phase θ2 ≈ −0.08π and asymmetric dispersio…

**Figure 10.** Figure 10: FIG. 10 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p020_10.png]

**Figure 11.** Figure 11: FIG. 11 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p022_11.png]

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