Emission of Nonclassical Radiation by Inelastic Cooper Pair Tunneling

Phys Rev Lett. 2017 Sep 29;119(13):137001. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.137001. Epub 2017 Sep 26.

Abstract

We show that a properly dc-biased Josephson junction in series with two microwave resonators of different frequencies emits photon pairs in the resonators. By measuring auto- and intercorrelations of the power leaking out of the resonators, we demonstrate two-mode amplitude squeezing below the classical limit. This nonclassical microwave light emission is found to be in quantitative agreement with our theoretical predictions, up to an emission rate of 2 billion photon pairs per second.