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Characterizing and understanding the environment affecting quantum systems is critical to elucidate its physical properties and engineer better quantum devices. We develop an approach to reduce the quantum environment causing single-qubit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-19 Won Kyu Calvin Sun , Paola Cappellaro

Single-qubit sensing protocols can be used to measure qubit-bath coupling parameters. However, for sufficiently large coupling, the sensing protocol itself perturbs the bath, which is predicted to result in a characteristic response in the…

Due to quantum fluctuations, non-orthogonal quantum states cannot be distinguished with complete certainty, making their underlying physical parameters difficult to resolve. Traditionally, it has been believed that the linewidth of a system…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-07-01 Hao Wu , Grant D. Mitts , Clayton Z. C. Ho , Joshua A. Rabinowitz , Eric R. Hudson

Qubit noise spectroscopy (QNS) is a valuable tool for both the characterization of a qubit's environment and as a precursor to more effective qubit control to improve qubit fidelities. Existing approaches to QNS are what the classical…

We propose a simple method of measuring the autocorrelation function of a spin noise based on multiplication and averaging two digitized signal traces, with one of them being a time-reversed copy of the other. This procedure allows one to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-23 M. V. Dubinin , A. A. Fomin , G. G. Kozlov , M. Yu. Petrov , V. S. Zapasskii

Here, we explore the prospects of carrying out the single qubit spectroscopy of environmental noise when the resolution of the frequency filters produced by the dynamical decoupling pulse sequences can be set high enough to reveal the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-22 Piotr Szańkowski

Classical sensors for spectrum analysis are widely used but lack micro- or nanoscale spatial resolution. On the other hand, quantum sensors, capable of working with nanoscale precision, do not provide precise frequency resolution over a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-12 Nicolas Staudenmaier , Simon Schmitt , Liam P. McGuinness , Fedor Jelezko

Understanding the physical origin of noise affecting quantum systems is important for nearly every quantum application. Quantum noise spectroscopy has been employed in various quantum systems, such as superconducting qubits, NV centers and…

Here we demonstrate how the standard, temporal-only, dynamical-decoupling-based noise spectroscopy method can be extended to also encompass the spatial degree of freedom. This spatiotemporal spectroscopy utilizes a system of multiple qubits…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-19 Jan Krzywda , Piotr Szańkowski , Łukasz Cywiński

A single qubit driven by an appropriate sequence of control pulses can serve as a spectrometer of local noise affecting its energy splitting. We show that by driving and observing two spatially separated qubits, it is possible to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-27 Piotr Szańkowski , Marek Trippenbach , Łukasz Cywiński

Using a qubit to probe non-Gaussian noise environments is theoretically studied in the context of classical random telegraph processes. Protocols for control pulses are developed to effectively scan higher noise correlations, offering…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-16 Guy Ramon

The optimization of quantum control for physical qubits relies on accurate noise characterization. Probing the spectral density $S(\omega)$ of semi-classical phase noise using a spin interacting with a continuous-wave (CW) resonant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-25 Kyle Willick , Daniel K. Park , Jonathan Baugh

An optimal dynamical decoupling of a quantum system coupled to a noisy environment must take into account also the imperfections of the control pulses. We present a new formalism which describes, in a closed-form expression, the evolution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-19 Ido Almog , Gil Loewenthal , Jonathan Coslovsky , Yoav Sagi , Nir Davidson

A better understanding of the noise causing qubit decoherence is crucial for improving qubit performance. The noise spectrum affecting the qubit may be extracted by measuring dephasing under the application of pulse sequences but requires…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-01-10 Thomas Fink , Hendrik Bluhm

The performance and scalability of semiconductor quantum-dot (QD) qubits are limited by electrostatic drift and charge noise that shift operating points and destabilize qubit parameters. As systems expand to large one- and two-dimensional…

Random pulse sequences are a powerful method for qubit noise spectroscopy, enabling efficient reconstruction of sparse noise spectra. Here, we advance this method in two complementary directions. First, we extend the method using a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-07 Kaixin Huang , Demitry Farfurnik , Dror Baron , Yi-Kai Liu

Extracting useful signals is key to both classical and quantum technologies. Conventional noise filtering methods rely on different patterns of signal and noise in frequency or time domains, thus limiting their scope of application,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-28 Yang Shen , Ping Wang , Chun Tung Cheung , Joerg Wachtrup , Ren-Bao Liu , Sen Yang

We employ a quantum computer to simulate the effect of spin impurities on nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond. As these defects operate as nanoscale quantum sensors, modeling quantum noise is crucial to identify limitations in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-04 Alberto López-García , Aikaterini Vasilakou , Javier Cerrillo

We present a procedure for direct characterization of the dephasing noise acting on a single qubit by making repeated measurements of the qubit coherence under suitably chosen sequences of controls. We show that this allows a numerical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Kevin C. Young , K. Birgitta Whaley

System noise identification is crucial to the engineering of robust quantum systems. Although existing quantum noise spectroscopy (QNS) protocols measure an aggregate amount of noise affecting a quantum system, they generally cannot…