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Amorphous solids, as well as many disordered lattices, display remarkable universality in their low temperature acoustic properties. This universality is attributed to the attenuation of phonons by tunneling two-level systems (TLSs),…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-28 A. Churkin , D. Barash , M. Schechter

Recent experimental results showing untypical nonlinear absorption and marked deviations from well known universality in the low temperature acoustic and dielectric losses in amorphous solids prove the need for improving the understanding…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-07-20 Moshe Schechter , Peter Nalbach , Alexander L. Burin

The anomalous low-temperature properties of glasses arise from intrinsic excitable entities, so-called tunneling Two-Level-Systems (TLS), whose microscopic nature has been baffling solid-state physicists for decades. TLS have become…

Parasitic two-level tunneling systems (TLS) emerge in amorphous dielectrics and constitute a serious nuisance for various microfabricated devices, where they act as a source of noise and decoherence. Here, we demonstrate a new test bed for…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-09-19 Jan David Brehm , Alexander Bilmes , Georg Weiss , Alexey V. Ustinov , Jürgen Lisenfeld

The crossing of temperature dependencies of sound velocity in the normal and the superconducting state of metallic glasses indicates renormalization of the intensity of sound interaction with two-level systems (TLS) caused by their coupling…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 E. V. Bezuglyi , A. L. Gaiduk , V. D. Fil , S. V. Zherlitsyn , W. L. Johnson , G. Bruls , B. Luethi , B. Wolf

We introduce a data-driven approach for extracting two-level system (TLS) parameters-frequency $\omega_{TLS}$, coupling strength $g$, dissipation time $T_{TLS, 1}$, and the pure dephasing time $T^{\phi}_{TLS, 2}$, labelled as a 4-component…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-23 Avinash Pathapati , Olli Mansikkamäki , Alexander Tyner , Alexander V. Balatsky

Recent experiments indicate a connection between the low- and high-frequency noise affecting superconducting quantum systems. We explore the possibilities that both noises can be produced by one ensemble of microscopic modes, made up, e.g.,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander Shnirman , Gerd Schön , Ivar Martin , Yuriy Makhlin

We propose to use the intrinsic two-level system (TLS) defect states found naturally in integrated optomechanical devices for exploring cavity QED-like phenomena with localized phonons. The Jaynes-Cummings-type interaction between TLS and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-17 Tomás Ramos , Vivishek Sudhir , Kai Stannigel , Peter Zoller , Tobias J. Kippenberg

Material research is a key frontier in advancing superconducting qubit and circuit performance. In this work, we develop a simple and broadly applicable framework for accurately characterizing two-level system (TLS) loss using internal…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-07-17 Guy Moshel , Sergei Masis , Moshe Schechter , Shay Hacohen-Gourgy

Transmon qubits are a cornerstone of modern superconducting quantum computing platforms. Temporal fluctuations of energy relaxation in these qubits are widely attributed to microscopic two-level systems (TLSs) in device dielectrics and…

We formulate the generalized tunneling model for two level systems in insulators that takes into account the interaction between them and a slow power law dependence of their density of states. We show that the predictions of this model are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Lara Faoro , Lev B. Ioffe

Two-level system (TLS) loss is typically limiting the coherence of superconducting quantum circuits. The loss induced by TLS defects is nonlinear, resulting in quality factors with a strong dependence on the circulating microwave power. We…

While two levels systems (TLSs) are ubiqitous in solid state systems, microscopic understanding of their nature remains an outstanding problem. Conflicting phenomenological models are used to describe TLSs in seemingly similar materials…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-22 Kartiek Agarwal , Ivar Martin , Mikhail D. Lukin , Eugene Demler

Quantum sensing and computation can be realized with superconducting microwave circuits. Qubits are engineered quantum systems of capacitors and inductors with non-linear Josephson junctions. They operate in the single-excitation quantum…

Material defects give rise to parasitic two-level systems (TLS) which present a major source of decoherence in superconducting qubits. Here, we study a strongly coupled TLS that resides in the tunnel barrier of transmon qubit. We use…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 J. Lisenfeld , A. K. Händel , A. Bilmes , A. V. Ustinov

Quantum two-level systems (TLSs) intrinsic to glasses induce decoherence in many modern quantum devices, such as superconducting qubits. Although the low-temperature physics of these TLSs is usually well-explained by a phenomenological…

We investigate the impact of two-level systems (TLSs) on superconductivity, treating them as soft modes localised in real space. We show that these defects can either enhance or suppress the superconducting critical temperature, depending…

Phonon modes within pristine crystalline resonators now routinely reach the quantum ground state. Such systems are attractive for quantum information science applications, as advanced fabrication and processing can enable relatively long…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-26 Ryan O. Behunin , Taylor Ray , Dylan Chapman , Andrew J. Shepherd , Yizhi Luo , Peter T. Rakich

Tunneling two level systems (TLSs) are believed to be the source of phenomena such as the universal low temperature properties in disordered and amorphous solids, and $1/f$ noise. The existence of these phenomena in a large variety of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2011-09-06 Alejandro Gaita-Ariño , Moshe Schechter

Two-level systems (TLS) in native Nb and Ta oxides limit superconducting-qubit coherence and SRF-cavity quality factors in the microwave frequency range, yet their microscopic origin remains unclear. We combine MLIP-accelerated sampling of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-03-19 Cristóbal Méndez , Tomás A. Arias
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