Environment-Assisted Generation of Non-Gaussian Wavepacket Quantum States

Abstract: We present a hardware-efficient approach to prepare single mode travelling wave packets in non-Gaussian bosonic states with a superconducting circuit platform. Such states enable secure deterministic quantum communication between distant quantum processor units. Rather than first producing the non-Gaussian states in a cavity mode by a nonlinear process and subsequently releasing it to a waveguide, we propose and analyze a scheme that applies a combination of linear and nonlinear interactions and losses to form and emit the states in wave packets, controlled by the coherent excitation of the system. The system is subject to a non-linear anti-Hermitian Hamiltonian of high order due to losses of lower order, and our proposal enables efficient and deterministic creation of propagating two- and four-component cat states, grid states, and entangled pair-cat states.