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Low-capacitance Josephson junctions, where Cooper pairs tunnel coherently while Coulomb blockade effects allow the control of the total charge, provide physical realizations of quantum bits (qubits), with logical states differing by one…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yuriy Makhlin , Gerd Schoen , Alexander Shnirman

We study the dynamics of a quantum superconducting circuit which consists of a Josephson charge qubit, coupled capacitively to a current biased Josephson junction. Under certain conditions, the eigenstates of the qubit and the junction…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 F. W. J. Hekking , O. Buisson , F. Balestro , M. G. Vergniory

We study decoherence of the Josephson charge qubit by measuring energy relaxation and dephasing with help of the single-shot readout. We found that the dominant energy relaxation process is a spontaneous emission induced by quantum noise…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 O. Astafiev , Yu. A. Pashkin , Y. Nakamura , T. Yamamoto , J. S. Tsai

The future development of quantum information using superconducting circuits requires Josephson qubits [1] with long coherence times combined to a high-fidelity readout. Major progress in the control of coherence has recently been achieved…

We study the dynamics of a quantum superconducting circuit which is the analogue of an atom in a high-Q cavity. The circuit consists of a Josephson charge qubit coupled to a superconducting resonator. The charge qubit can be treated as a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 O. Buisson , F. W. J. Hekking

We propose and demonstrate a new read-out technique for a superconducting qubit by dispersively coupling it to a Josephson parametric oscillator. We employ a tunable quarter-wavelength superconducting resonator and modulate its resonant…

We measure the interdot charge relaxation time T_1 of a single electron trapped in an accumulation mode Si/SiGe double quantum dot. The energy level structure of the charge qubit is determined using photon assisted tunneling, which reveals…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-27 K. Wang , C. Payette , Y. Dovzhenko , P. W. Deelman , J. R. Petta

Compared to traditional semiconductor control electronics (TSCE) located at room temperature, cryogenic single flux quantum (SFQ) electronics can provide qubit measurement and control alternatives that address critical issues related to…

We show that two capacitively-coupled Josephson junctions, in the quantum limit, form a simple coupled qubit system with effective coupling controlled by the junction bias currents. We compute numerically the energy levels and wave…

We demonstrate a planar, tunable superconducting qubit with energy relaxation times up to 44 microseconds. This is achieved by using a geometry designed to both minimize radiative loss and reduce coupling to materials-related defects. At…

The effective capacitance has been measured in the split Cooper pair box (CPB) over its phase-gate bias plane. Our low-frequency reactive measurement scheme allows to probe purely the capacitive susceptibility due to the CPB band structure.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. A. Sillanpaa , T. Lehtinen , A. Paila , Yu. Makhlin , L. Roschier , P. J. Hakonen

The future development of quantum information using superconducting circuits requires Josephson qubits with long coherence times combined to a high-delity readout. Major progress in the control of coherence has recently been achieved using…

We calculate the charge sensitivity of a recently demonstrated device where the Josephson inductance of a single Cooper-pair transistor is measured. We find that the intrinsic limit to detector performance is set by oscillator quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 Mika A. Sillanpaa , Leif Roschier , Pertti J. Hakonen

A small superconducting electrode (a single-Cooper-pair box) connected to a reservoir via a Josephson junction constitutes an artificial two-level system, in which two charge states that differ by 2e are coupled by tunneling of Cooper…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Y. Nakamura , Yu. A. Pashkin , J. S. Tsai

We demonstrate that two coupled Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC) at zero temperature can be used to realize a qubit which is the counterpart of Josephson charge qubits. The two BEC are weakly coupled and confined in an asymmetric double-well…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Zeng-Bing Chen , Yong-De Zhang

Most superconducting qubits operate in a regime dominated by either the electrical charge or the magnetic flux. Here we study an intermediate case: a hybridized charge-flux qubit with a third Josephson junction (JJ) added into the SQUID…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Q. You , J. S. Tsai , Franco Nori

The Cooper pair box qubit of SQUID configuration enables the readout of the qubit states by probing the effective Josephson inductance of the SQUID. This is realized by coupling the qubit to a tank circuit which induces a small alternating…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 A. B. Zorin

In this paper we investigate the short-time decoherence of single Josephson charge qubit (JCQ). The measure of decoherence is chosen as the maximum norm of the deviation density operator. It is shown that when the temperature low enough…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Xian-Ting Liang

The Single Cooper Pair Josephson Transistor is a device that exhibits at the same time charge quantization and phase coherence. Coherent quantum phase slip phenomenon is "dual" the Josephson phase coherence while the charge quantization is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-06-04 S. Kafanov , N. M. Chtchelkatchev

We have investigated coherent time evolution of pseudo-molecular states of an isolated (leadless) silicon double quantum-dot, where operations are carried out via capacitively-coupled elements. Manipulation is performed by short pulses…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. Gorman , D. G. Hasko , D. A. Williams