Quantum emulation of coherent backscattering in a system of superconducting qubits
Abstract
In condensed matter systems, coherent backscattering and quantum interference in the presence of time-reversal symmetry lead to well-known phenomena such as weak localization (WL) and universal conductance fluctuations (UCF). Here we use multi-pass Landau-Zener transitions at the avoided crossing of a highly-coherent superconducting qubit to emulate these phenomena. The average and standard deviation of the qubit transition rate exhibit a dip and peak when the driving waveform is time-reversal symmetric, analogous to WL and UCF, respectively. The higher coherence of this qubit enabled the realization of both effects, in contrast to earlier work arXiv:1204.6428, which successfully emulated UCF, but did not observe WL. This demonstration illustrates the use of non-adiabatic control to implement quantum emulation with superconducting qubits.
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@article{arxiv.1912.12488,
title = {Quantum emulation of coherent backscattering in a system of superconducting qubits},
author = {Ana Laura Gramajo and Dan Campbell and Bharath Kannan and David K. Kim and Alexander Melville and Bethany M. Niedzielski and Jonilyn L. Yoder and María José Sánchez and Daniel Domínguez and Simon Gustavsson and William D. Oliver},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.12488},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
14 pages, 7 figures; two reference added; figure 4 changed; 2 more figures added in Suppl. Info