We present an efficient scheme for the generation of NOON states of photons
in circuit QED assisted by a superconducting charge qutrit. It is completed
with two kinds of manipulations, that is, the resonant operation on the qutrit
and the resonator, and the single-qubit operation on the qutrit, and they both
are high-fidelity operations. Compared with the one by a superconducting
transmon qutrit proposed by Su et al. (Sci. Rep. 4, 3898 (2014)), our scheme
does not require to maintain the qutrit in the third excited state with a long
time, which relaxes the difficulty of its implementation in experiment.
Moreover, the level anharmonicity of a charge qutrit is larger and it is better
for us to tune the different transitions of the charge qutrit resonant to the
resonator, which makes our scheme faster than others.Comment: 6 pages, 1 figur