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The coherence of superconducting quantum computers is severely limited by material defects that create parasitic two-level-systems (TLS). Progress is complicated by lacking understanding how TLS are created and in which parts of a qubit…

Here we find the increase in 1/f noise of superconducting resonators at low temperatures to be completely incompatible with the standard tunneling model (STM) of Two Level Systems (TLS), which has been used to describe low-frequency noise…

Weak measurements of a superconducting qubit produce noisy voltage signals that are weakly correlated with the qubit state. To recover individual quantum trajectories from these noisy signals, traditional methods require slow qubit dynamics…

Describing open quantum systems far from equilibrium is challenging, in particular when the environment is mesoscopic, when it develops nonequilibrium features during the evolution, or when the memory effects cannot be disregarded. Here, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 Andreu Riera-Campeny , Anna Sanpera , Philipp Strasberg

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

A rapid restoration of the bath state is usually required to induce Markovian dynamics for an open quantum system, which typically can be realized only in limits such as weak system-bath coupling and infinitely large bath. In this work, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-01 Shengshi Pang , Todd A. Brun , Andrew N. Jordan

Quantum memory effects can be qualitatively understood as a consequence of an environment-to-system backflow of information. Here, we analyze and compare how this concept is interpreted and implemented in different approaches to quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-09 Adrián A. Budini

Characterizing non-Markovian quantum dynamics is essential for accurately modeling open quantum systems, particularly in near-term quantum technologies. In this work, we develop a structure-preserving approach to characterizing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-31 Sohail Reddy

We present a detailed study of the non-Markovian two-state system dynamics for the regime of incoherent quantum tunneling. Using perturbation theory in the system tunneling amplitude $\Delta$, and in the limit of strong system-bath…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 M. H. S. Amin , Frederico Brito

Under the Born--Markov approximation, a qubit system, such as a two-level atom, is known to undergo a memoryless decay of quantum coherence or excitation when weakly coupled to a featureless environment. Recently, it has been shown that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-12 Gian Luca Giorgi , Salvatore Lorenzo , Stefano Longhi

Tracing out the environmental degrees of freedom is a necessary procedure when simulating open quantum systems. While being an essential step in deriving a tractable master equation it represents a loss of information. In situations where…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-02 Dominic Gribben , Aidan Strathearn , Gerald E. Fux , Peter Kirton , Brendon W. Lovett

The research on open quantum systems is important for both quantum computing and quantum sensing. So far, we can only use the main equation to make an approximate description. The dynamics of a single Fluxonium qubit under Markovian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-06 Chenghong Ji , Chaoying Zhao

We study the use of a pair of qubits as a decoherence probe of a non-trivial environment. This dual-probe configuration is modelled by three two-level-systems which are coupled in a chain in which the middle system represents an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-02-09 Jan Jeske , Jared H. Cole , Clemens Müller , Michael Marthaler , Gerd Schön

Current approaches for building quantum computing devices focus on two-level quantum systems which nicely mimic the concept of a classical bit, albeit enhanced with additional quantum properties. However, rather than artificially limiting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Ruben S. Andrist , James R. Wootton , Helmut G. Katzgraber

We study the long-time evolution of a quantum memory coupled to a bosonic environment on which quantum error correction (QEC) is performed using the surface code. The memory's evolution encompasses $N$ QEC cycles, each of them yielding a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-28 D. A. López-Delgado , E. Novais , E. R. Mucciolo , A. O. Caldeira

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 propose a modified non-Markovian quantum jump method to overcome the obstacle of dramatically increased trajectory number in conventional quantum trajectory simulations. In our method the trajectories are classified into the trajectory…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-17 Huanyuan Zhang , Jiasen Jin

We investigate the dynamics of a two-qubit open quantum system, in particular the two-qubit spin-boson model in the strong coupling regime, coupled to two thermal bosonic baths under non-Markovian and non-equilibrium conditions. Two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-22 Hasan Mehdi Rizvi , Devvrat Tiwari , Subhashish Banerjee

Two-level systems (TLS) of unclear physical origin are a major contributor to decoherence in superconducting qubits. The interactions of individual TLS with a qubit can be detected via various spectroscopic methods, most of which have…

Qubits are typically reset into a known state by coupling them to a low-temperature environment. When treated in the Born-Markov approximation such couplings produce exponential relaxation to equilibrium, giving high reset fidelities…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-11 Carlos Ortega-Taberner , Eoin O'Neill , Paul Eastham