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arxiv: 2404.00142 · v1 · submitted 2024-03-29 · 🪐 quant-ph

Loss resilience of driven-dissipative remote entanglement in chiral waveguide quantum electrodynamics

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Coupling storage qubits to driven qubits in a chiral waveguide makes remote entanglement more resilient to loss.

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The paper investigates limits on entanglement stabilization between remote qubits in open quantum systems subject to waveguide loss. It establishes that adding a pair of storage qubits to two driven qubits allows the steady state to be adjusted so the storage qubits reach higher entanglement than the driven qubits can achieve on their own. Reducing the entanglement shared by the driven qubits trades off to make the storage-qubit entanglement decay more slowly with increasing waveguide loss. A sympathetic reader would care because loss fundamentally constrains how much remote entanglement can be maintained in driven-dissipative protocols, and the scheme offers a concrete way to push that limit in systems such as superconducting circuits.

Core claim

By coupling a pair of storage qubits to the two driven qubits, the steady state can be tailored such that the storage qubits show a degree of entanglement that is higher than what can be achieved with only two driven qubits coupled to the waveguide. By reducing the degree of entanglement of the driven qubits, the entanglement between the storage qubits becomes more resilient to waveguide loss.

What carries the argument

Coupling of storage qubits to the driven qubits, which tailors the collective steady state so that entanglement is shifted to the storage pair and its sensitivity to waveguide loss is reduced.

Load-bearing premise

The model assumes an ideal chiral waveguide with unidirectional propagation and no additional loss or back-scattering introduced by the storage-qubit couplings.

What would settle it

Measure the entanglement (concurrence or fidelity) between the storage qubits while varying the waveguide loss rate and compare the decay curve to the case of only two driven qubits; if the storage qubits show no higher starting entanglement or no slower decay with loss, the resilience claim does not hold.

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Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2404.00142 by Aashish A. Clerk, Abdullah Irfan, Andrew Lingenfelter, Mingxing Yao, Wolfgang Pfaff, Xi Cao.

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Establishing limits of entanglement in open quantum systems is a problem of fundamental interest, with strong implications for applications in quantum information science. Here, we study limits of entanglement stabilization between remote qubits. We theoretically investigate the loss resilience of driven-dissipative entanglement between remote qubits coupled to a chiral waveguide. We find that by coupling a pair of storage qubits to the two driven qubits, the steady state can be tailored such that the storage qubits show a degree of entanglement that is higher than what can be achieved with only two driven qubits coupled to the waveguide. By reducing the degree of entanglement of the driven qubits, we show that the entanglement between the storage qubits becomes more resilient to waveguide loss. Our analytical and numerical results offer insights into how waveguide loss limits the degree of entanglement in this driven-dissipative system, and offers important guidance for remote entanglement stabilization in the laboratory, for example using superconducting circuits.

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Summary. The manuscript studies limits of entanglement stabilization in open quantum systems by theoretically investigating driven-dissipative remote entanglement between qubits coupled to a chiral waveguide. The central claim is that coupling a pair of storage qubits to two driven qubits allows tailoring of the steady state such that the storage qubits achieve higher entanglement than is possible with only the driven qubits, and that reducing the driven-qubit entanglement makes the storage-qubit entanglement more resilient to waveguide loss. Analytical and numerical results are presented to support these findings and to offer guidance for laboratory implementations, e.g., in superconducting circuits.

Significance. If the central claims hold under the stated model, the work provides a concrete strategy for engineering loss-resilient remote entanglement by trading off entanglement between driven and storage qubits. This is a useful conceptual advance for driven-dissipative stabilization protocols in waveguide QED. The self-contained theoretical calculation with both analytical and numerical components is a strength.

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  1. [Abstract] Abstract and implied model: the headline resilience gain is obtained under the assumption of an ideal unidirectional chiral waveguide with no back-scattering or additional decoherence channels introduced by the storage-qubit coupling. No perturbation analysis, parameter scan, or quantification of how finite back-scattering amplitudes or extra decay rates on the storage qubits would alter the effective dissipators and eliminate the reported advantage is provided; this assumption is load-bearing for the central claim.

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We thank the referee for their positive evaluation of the significance of our work and for the constructive comment. We respond to the major comment below.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract and implied model: the headline resilience gain is obtained under the assumption of an ideal unidirectional chiral waveguide with no back-scattering or additional decoherence channels introduced by the storage-qubit coupling. No perturbation analysis, parameter scan, or quantification of how finite back-scattering amplitudes or extra decay rates on the storage qubits would alter the effective dissipators and eliminate the reported advantage is provided; this assumption is load-bearing for the central claim.

    Authors: We thank the referee for this observation. The manuscript explicitly studies the ideal chiral limit (unidirectional propagation, no backscattering), as indicated by the title, abstract, and the master-equation derivation in Sec. II. Within this model the storage-qubit entanglement is shown to exceed the driven-qubit entanglement and to become more resilient to waveguide loss. We agree that the absence of a perturbation analysis for finite backscattering or extra storage-qubit decay constitutes a limitation for assessing robustness in realistic devices. We will therefore add a concise discussion paragraph (new text in Sec. V) that (i) states the idealization, (ii) notes that the reported advantage requires high chirality (consistent with demonstrated values >99 % in circuit QED), and (iii) qualitatively indicates how small bidirectional terms would modify the effective dissipators. This revision clarifies the regime of validity without altering the central analytical and numerical results for the ideal case. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity; derivation self-contained from master equation

full rationale

The paper derives entanglement stabilization and loss resilience analytically and numerically from the driven-dissipative master equation for an ideal chiral waveguide. No load-bearing steps reduce to fitted parameters, self-citations, or ansatzes imported from prior work by the same authors; the central claims follow directly from the stated model assumptions without tautological redefinition or renaming of known results. This is the expected outcome for a self-contained theoretical calculation.

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Abstract-only review; no explicit free parameters, axioms, or invented entities are stated. Standard open-system assumptions are implicit but not detailed.

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