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Nonstationary dephasing of two level systems

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2009-11-10 v2

Abstract

We investigate the influence of nonstationary 1/f^mu noise, produced by interacting defects, on a quantum two-level system. Adopting a simple phenomenological model for this noise we describe exactly the corresponding dephasing in various regimes. The nonstationarity and pronounced non-Gaussian features of this noise induce new anomalous dephasing scenarii. Beyond a history-dependent critical coupling strength the dephasing time exhibits a strong dependence on the age of the noise and the decay of coherence is not exponential.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0403750,
  title  = {Nonstationary dephasing of two level systems},
  author = {Josef Schriefl and Maxime Clusel and David Carpentier and Pascal Degiovanni},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0403750},
  year   = {2009}
}