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ArticleNature communications2025

Entangling Schrödinger's cat states by bridging discrete- and continuous-variable encoding.

Daisuke Hoshi, Toshiaki Nagase, Sangil Kwon, Daisuke Iyama, Takahiko Kamiya, Shiori Fujii, Hiroto Mukai, Shahnawaz Ahmed, Anton Frisk Kockum, Shohei Watabe and 2 more

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  1. Quantum benchmarking of high-fidelity noise-biased operations on a detuned Kerr-cat qubit.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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12 authors.

Daisuke Hoshi *Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, Tokyo University of Science, 1-3 Kagurazaka, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8601, Japan.
Toshiaki Nagase *Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, Tokyo University of Science, 1-3 Kagurazaka, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8601, Japan.
Sangil Kwon *Research Institute for Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science, 1-3 Kagurazaka, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8601, Japan. kwon2866@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8113-0821
Daisuke IyamaDepartment of Physics, Graduate School of Science, Tokyo University of Science, 1-3 Kagurazaka, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8601, Japan.
Takahiko KamiyaDepartment of Physics, Graduate School of Science, Tokyo University of Science, 1-3 Kagurazaka, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8601, Japan.
Shiori FujiiDepartment of Physics, Graduate School of Science, Tokyo University of Science, 1-3 Kagurazaka, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8601, Japan.
Hiroto MukaiRIKEN Center for Quantum Computing (RQC), Wako-shi, Saitama 351-0198, Japan.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6689-7963
Shahnawaz AhmedDepartment of Microtechnology and Nanoscience, Chalmers University of Technology, 412 96, Gothenburg, Sweden.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1145-7279
Anton Frisk KockumDepartment of Microtechnology and Nanoscience, Chalmers University of Technology, 412 96, Gothenburg, Sweden.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-3021
Shohei WatabeResearch Institute for Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science, 1-3 Kagurazaka, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8601, Japan.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2895-698X
Fumiki YoshiharaDepartment of Physics, Graduate School of Science, Tokyo University of Science, 1-3 Kagurazaka, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8601, Japan.
Jaw-Shen TsaiRIKEN Center for Quantum Computing (RQC), Wako-shi, Saitama 351-0198, Japan.

Funding

New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) JPNP16007Stiftelsen för Strategisk Forskning (Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research) FFL21-0279Stiftelsen för Strategisk Forskning (Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research) FUS21-0063Vetenskapsrådet (Swedish Research Council) 2019-03696
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In quantum information processing, two primary research directions have emerged: one based on discrete variables (DV) and the other on the structure of quantum states in a continuous-variable (CV) space. Integrating these two approaches could unlock new potentials, overcoming their respective limitations. Here, we show that such a DV-CV hybrid approach, applied to superconducting Kerr parametric oscillators (KPOs), enables us to entangle a pair of Schrödinger's cat states by two methods. The first involves the entanglement-preserving conversion between Bell states in the Fock-state basis (DV encoding) and those in the cat-state basis (CV encoding). The second method implements a

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