Dynamically Enhancing Qubit-Photon Interactions with Antisqueezing

Abstract

The interaction strength of an oscillator to a qubit grows with the oscillator’s vacuum field fluctuations. The well-known degenerate parametric oscillator has revived interest in the regime of strongly detuned squeezing, where its eigenstates are squeezed Fock states. Owing to the amplified field fluctuations in the antisqueezed quadrature, it was recently proposed that squeezing this oscillator would dynamically boost qubit-photon interactions. In a superconducting circuit experiment, we observe a twofold increase in the dispersive interaction between a qubit and an oscillator at 5.5 dB of squeezing, demonstrating dynamical control of qubit-photon interactions. This work initiates the experimental coupling of oscillators of squeezed photons to qubits, and cautiously motivates their dissemination in experimental platforms seeking enhanced interactions. Published by the American Physical Society 2024