Driven Dynamics and Rotary Echo of a Qubit Tunably Coupled to a Harmonic Oscillator
Simon Gustavsson, Jonas Bylander, F. Yan +18 more
We have investigated the driven dynamics of a superconducting flux qubit that is tunably coupled to a microwave resonator. We find that the qubit experiences an oscillating field mediated by off-resonant driving of the resonator, leading to strong modifications of the qubit Rabi frequency. This opens an additional noise channel, and we find that low-frequency noise in the coupling parameter causes a reduction of the coherence time during driven evolution. The noise can be mitigated with the rotary-echo pulse sequence, which, for driven systems, is analogous to the Hahn-echo sequence.
arXiv:1201.6341•Physical Review Letters•Apr 27, 2012•31 citations