Sequential nonabsorbing microwave single-photon detector
Ivan Iakoupov, Yuichiro Matsuzaki, William J. Munro, Shiro Saito · Physical Review Research · 2020
This work proposes a nonabsorbing microwave single-photon detector that uses an artificial atom as a coherent interaction mediator between a traveling photon and a high-Q resonator. The setup achieves distinguishability in excess of 98% for realistic parameters.