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Two-level system (TLS) defects constitute a major decoherence source of quantum information science, but they are generally less understood at material interfaces than in deposited films. Here we study surface TLSs at the metal-air…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Chih-Chiao Hung , Tim Kohler , Kevin D. Osborn

We consider how randomness can be made to play a useful role in quantum information processing - in particular, for decoherence control and the implementation of quantum algorithms. For a two-level system in which the decoherence channel is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Chiu Fan Lee , Neil F. Johnson

Quantum systems are prone to decoherence due to both intrinsic interactions as well as random fluctuations from the environment. Using the Pechukas-Yukawa formalism, we investigate the influence of noise on the dynamics of an adiabatically…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-08-01 Mumnuna A. Qureshi , Johnny Zhong , Peter Mason , Joseph J. Betouras , Alexandre M. Zagoskin

Quantum two-level systems (TLSs) commonly found at low temperature in amorphous and disordered materials are responsible for decoherence in superconducting Josephson junction qubits particularly because they absorb energy of coherent qubit…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-07-09 Alexander L. Burin

Characterizing and understanding noise affecting quantum states has immense benefits in spectroscopy as well as in realizing quantum devices. Transverse relaxation times under a set of dynamical decoupling (DD) sequences with varying…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-11 Deepak Khurana , Govind Unnikrishnan , T. S. Mahesh

Combining tensor network techniques with quantum autoregressive moving average models, we quantify the effects of time-correlated noise on quantum algorithms and predict their performance at scale. As a paradigmatic test case, we examine…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-06 Amit Jamadagni , Gregory Quiroz , Eugene Dumitrescu

We compute the high-frequency emission and absorption noise in a fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) sample at arbitrary temperature. We model the edges of the FQHE as chiral Luttinger liquids (LL) and we use the non-equilibrium…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Cristina Bena , Ines Safi

We study the dynamics of quantum correlations for two non interacting qubits initially prepared in a maximally entangled state and then coupled with an external environment characterized by a noise spectrum of the form 1/f^{\alpha}. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-24 Claudia Benedetti , Matteo G. A. Paris , Fabrizio Buscemi , Paolo Bordone

The progress witnessed within the field of quantum computing has been enabled by the identification and understanding of interactions between the state of the quantum bit (qubit) and the materials within its environment. Beginning with an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-28 Conal E. Murray

The decoherence of a qubit due to a classical non-Gaussian noise with correlation time longer than the decoherence time is discussed for arbitrary working points of the qubit. A method is developed that allows an exact formula for the phase…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 J. Bergli , Y. M. Galperin , B. L. Altshuler

We investigate the effect of dephasing/decoherence on quantum transport through open chaotic ballistic conductors in the semiclassical limit of small Fermi wavelength to system size ratio, $\lambda_F/L << 1$. We use the trajectory-based…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-17 Robert S. Whitney , Philippe Jacquod , Cyril Petitjean

We examine the conditions in favor and necessity of a realistic multileveled description of a decohering quantum system. Under these conditions approximate techniques to simplify a multileveled system by its first two levels is unreliable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kerim Savran , Tugrul Hakioglu , Emine Mese

Decoherence in quantum bit circuits is presently a major limitation to their use for quantum computing purposes. We present experiments, inspired from NMR, that characterise decoherence in a particular superconducting quantum bit circuit,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-25 G. Ithier , E. Collin , P. Joyez , P. J. Meeson , D. Vion , D. Esteve , F. Chiarello , A. Shnirman , Y. Makhlin , J. Schriefl , G. Schon

We investigate low-frequency noise in a spin-qubit device made in isotopically purified Si/Si-Ge. Observing sizable cross-correlations among energy fluctuations of different qubits, we conclude that these fluctuations are dominated by…

The kinetics of relaxation in quantum systems induced by anomalous fluctuating noise is studied in detail. In this study two processes are considered, as examples: (1) relaxation in two-level system caused by external noise with slowly…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. I. Shushin

Recent work has shown that relativistic time dilation results in correlations between a particle's internal and external degrees of freedom, leading to decoherence of the latter. In this note, we briefly summarize the results and address…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-14 Igor Pikovski , Magdalena Zych , Fabio Costa , Caslav Brukner

Quantum systems are inherently susceptible to noise -- a notorious factor that induces decoherence and limits the performance of quantum applications. To mitigate its detrimental effects, various techniques have been developed, including…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-21 Yu-Bo Hou , Xiaoan Ai , Ruizhe You , Changchun Zhong

We study non-equilibrium noise in the transmission current through barriers in 1-D Luttinger liquids and in the tunneling current between edges of fractional quantum Hall liquids. The distribution of tunneling events through narrow barriers…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 C. de C. Chamon , D. E. Freed , X. G. Wen

We demonstrate by an explicit model calculation that the decay of entanglement of two two-state systems (two qubits) is governed by the product of the factors that measure the degree of decoherence of each of the qubits, subject to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-10-12 D. Tolkunov , V. Privman , P. K. Aravind

We have measured flux-noise correlations in a tunable superconducting flux qubit. The device consists of two loops that independently control the qubit's energy splitting and tunnel coupling. Low frequency flux noise in the loops causes…