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arXiv:1406.4899 · Physical Review A

Non-Markovian qubit dynamics in a circuit-QED setup

Paulo C. Cárdenas, Mauro Paternostro, F. L. Semião

Published Feb 26, 2015• 16 citations
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Abstract

We consider a circuit-QED setup that allows the induction and control of non-Markovian dynamics of a qubit. Non-Markovianity is enforced over the qubit by means of its direct coupling to a bosonic mode which is controllably coupled to another qubit-mode system. We show that this configuration can be achieved in a circuit-QED setup consisting of two initially independent superconducting circuits, each formed by one charge qubit and one transmission-line resonator, which are put in interaction by coupling the resonators to a current-biased Josephson junction. We solve this problem exactly and then proceed with a thorough investigation of the emergent non-Markovianity in the dynamics of the qubits. Our study might serve the context for the first experimental assessment of non-Markovianity in a multielement solid-state device.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.91.022122

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We consider a circuit-QED setup that allows for controllable couplings between bosonic modes that locally interact with noisy qubits. In this setup, two initially independent superconducting circuits, each formed by one charge qubit and one transmission-line resonator, are put in interaction by coupling the latter to a current-biased Josephson junction, working as a coupler. We solve this problem exactly and we proceed with a thorough investigation of the emergent non-Markovianity in the dynamics of the qubits, which are also subjected to Markovian dephasing. We show that this analysis might serve the context for a first experimental assessment of non-Markovianity in a multi-element solid-state device.
We study decoherence in a circuit QED system consisting of a charge qubit and two superconducting transmission line resonators (TLRs). We show that in the dispersive regime of the circuit QED system one TLR can be used as an auxiliary subsystem to realize decoherence-free quantum dynamics of the bipartite target system consisting of the charge qubit and the other TLR conditioned on the auxiliary TLR initially being a proper number state. Our study gives new insight into control and manipulation of decoherence in quantum systems.
We introduce a systematic formalism for two-resonator circuit QED, where two on-chip microwave resonators are simultaneously coupled to one superconducting qubit. Within this framework, we demonstrate that the qubit can function as a quantum switch between the two resonators, which are assumed to be originally independent. In this three-circuit network, the qubit mediates a geometric second-order circuit interaction between the otherwise decoupled resonators. In the dispersive regime, it also gives rise to a dynamic second-order perturbative interaction. The geometric and dynamic coupling strengths can be tuned to be equal, thus permitting to switch on and off the interaction between the two resonators via a qubit population inversion or a shifting of the qubit operation point. We also show that our quantum switch represents a flexible architecture for the manipulation and generation of nonclassical microwave field states as well as the creation of controlled multipartite entanglement in circuit QED. In addition, we clarify the role played by the geometric interaction, which constitutes a fundamental property characteristic of superconducting quantum circuits without a counterpart in quantum-optical systems. We develop a detailed theory of the geometric second-order coupling by means of circuit transformations for superconducting charge and flux qubits. Furthermore, we show the robustness of the quantum switch operation with respect to decoherence mechanisms. Finally, we propose a realistic design for a two-resonator circuit QED setup based on a flux qubit and estimate all the related parameters. In this manner, we show that this setup can be used to implement a superconducting quantum switch with available technology.
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Abstract In small-scale superconducting quantum processors based on the circuit quantum electrodynamics (cQED) architecture, the qubit is typically modeled as coupled to a broad-band, structure-less environment (frequency-independent or slowly varying in frequency), leading to dynamics that is well-approximated by the Markovian approximation. This approximation is usually facilitated by the large detuning between the qubit and the read-out resonator. However, when these systems are scaled up, parasitic couplings between a given qubit and the read-out resonators of the other qubits become unavoidable. In such a case, a qubit experiences a structured (frequency-dependent) environment of the parasitic resonators, some of which may have small detunings, thereby leading to the break-down of the Markovian approximation. In this article, we numerically investigate the effect of such parasitic modes coupled to a qubit for parameters typical of cQED systems. We observe that non-Markovian effects become more pronounced as the resonators are populated with more photons, suggesting that readout of one qubit can parasitically induce non-Markovian behavior in neighboring qubits. We qualitatively analyze the dependence of non-Markovianity on system parameters such as photon number, coupling strength, and detuning, and identify distinct regimes, hence characterizing the non-Markovian behaviour which is quantified using simulations computing the trace-distance metric.
We have analyzed and measured the quantum coherent dynamics of a circuit containing two coupled superconducting charge qubits. Each qubit is based on a Cooper pair box connected to a reservoir electrode through a Josephson junction. Two qubits are coupled electrostatically by a small island overlapping both Cooper pair boxes. Quantum state manipulation ofthe qubit circuit is done by applying non-adiabatic voltage pulses to the common gate. We read out each qubit by means of probe electrodes connected to Cooper pair boxes through high-Ohmic tunnel junctions. With such a setup the measured pulse-induced probe currents are proportional to the probability for each qubit to have an extra Cooper pai1r after the manipulation. As expected from theory and observed experimentally the measured pulse-induced current in each probe has two frequency components whose position on the frequency axis can be externally controlled. This is a result ofthe inter-qubit coupling which is also responsible for the avoided level crossing that we observed in the qubits' spectra. Our simulations show that in the absence of decoherence and with a rectangular pulse shape the system remains entangled most ofthe time reaching maximally entangled states at certain instances.