Qubit-Boson Hybrid Beam-Splitter Gate with Kerr Nonlinearity in Circuit QED for Many-Body Dynamics

Abstract

We introduce a hybrid qubit-boson beam-splitter gate in which a microwave cavity mode couples to an exchange-dressed two-level subsystem of an interacting two-qubit system in the presence of Kerr nonlinearity. Starting from a general circuit quantum electrodynamics (cQED) model, we derive the corresponding hybrid qubit-cavity interaction, develop its open-system description including photon- and qubit-sector-bath-induced dissipation and obtain in the weak-dissipation regime an analytical expression for the average gate fidelity. We further identify carbon-nanotube circuit QED as a concrete platform for implementing and controlling the gate, provide a representative operating regime and perform noiseless and noisy numerical simulations to study the gate dynamics and benchmark the analytical results. Beyond this implementation route, the proposed hybrid primitive provides a natural building block for many-body dynamics, including quantum-cellular-automaton (QCA) and lattice-gauge-inspired architectures and, through its collision-model reformulation, also suggests connections to noisy QCA, non-Markovian extensions and reservoir-style quantum information processing.