Dissipation-driven Entangled State Preparation of Two Qubits Coupled to a Transmission Line*

Pairwise entanglement of superconducting qubits is conventionally achieved through either direct capacitive or inductive coupling, or mediated by a cavity photon mode. Here, we instead study multiple transmon qubits coupled to a continuum of field modes along a transmission line. We experimentally explore the use of correlated decay to mediate dissipation-driven entanglement of a pair of qubits.