The basic phenomenon of quantum jumps between two states of a system driven by a deterministic force while undergoing continuous monitoring is exploited in precision quantum measurements and plays a key role in our fundamental understanding of open quantum systems. Quantum jumps are emblematic of the special nature of randomness in quantum theory. Although it had been argued in the past that their nature is discontinuous, modern measurement theory stipulates that the state of the system evolves continuously during a jump. Even more remarkable, in the case of a system possessing at least 3 states, it was shown theoretically that it is possible i) to obtain an advance warning that the jump is about to occur, and consequently ii) to reverse it if it was initiated by a coherent drive. We have successfully implemented the indirect QND measurement of a superconducting artificial atom transition from its ground state G to a dark state D by monitoring the occupancy of an auxiliary bright level B coupled to G by a Rabi drive. By conditioning the tomography and manipulation of the G-D manifold on the non-occupancy of the B level for a deterministic duration, we catch and even reverse the jump [1]. Our experimental results, in agreement with the predictions of quantum trajectories theory with essentially no adjustable parameters, provide new ground for the exploration of real-time intervention techniques in the control of quantum systems, such as early detection of error syndromes.
De Florian Marquardt
De Gary Steele
De Hendrik Bluhm
De Jean-Michel Raimond
De Alain Sarlette
De Sylvain Schwartz
De Sophia Economou
De Klaus Mølmer
De Howard M. Wiseman
De Michel Devoret
De Akira Furusawa
De Yanhong Xiao
De Alex Retzker
De Nicolas Didier
De Ivan Deutsch
De Mankei Tsang
De Aashish Clerk
De Valentina Parigi
De Rebing Wu
De Michael Biercuk
De Thomas Ayral
De Nana Liu
De Nana Liu
