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arXiv:0912.0089 · Physical Review A

Tunable electromagnetically induced transparency and absorption with dressed superconducting qubits

Hou Ian, Yu-xi Liu, Franco Nori

Published Jun 23, 2010• 99 citations
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Abstract

Electromagnetically induced transparency and absorption (EIT and EIA) are usually demonstrated using three-level atomic systems. In contrast to the usual case, we theoretically study the EIT and EIA in an equivalent three-level system: a superconducting two-level system (qubit) dressed by a single-mode cavity field. In this equivalent system, we find that both the EIT and the EIA can be tuned by controlling the level-spacing of the superconducting qubit and hence controlling the dressed system. This tunability is due to the dressed relaxation and dephasing rates which vary parametrically with the level-spacing of the original qubit and thus affect the transition properties of the dressed qubit and the susceptibility. These dressed relaxation and dephasing rates characterize the reaction of the dressed qubit to an incident probe field. Using recent experimental data on superconducting qubits (charge, phase, and flux qubits) to demonstrate our approach, we show the possibility of experimentally realizing this proposal.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.81.063823

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Abstract We develop an efficient scheme for controllably generating electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) with a superconducting qutrit driven by tunable drivings. At an optimal bias point, the first three level states of a charge-phase quantum circuit constitute our qutrit. Allowed by the level transition rule, V- and -type interactions between the qutrit and driving fields can be obtained individually. By the technique of density matrix, we analytically derive and numerically address two cases of EIT for an identical probe field only by tuning the frequency of control driving. Thanks to the tunable interactions within the qutrit having sufficient level anharmonicity, our strategy offers a promising approach to generate EIT in a controllable manner, which could be highly preferable to experimentally investigate EIT with superconducting artificial atoms.
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