The Fermi problem with artificial atoms in circuit QED
Quantum Physics
2011-10-31 v2 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Superconductivity
Abstract
We propose a feasible experimental test of a 1-D version of the Fermi problem using superconducting qubits. We give an explicit non-perturbative proof of strict causality in this model, showing that the probability of excitation of a two-level artificial atom with a dipolar coupling to a quantum field is completely independent of the other qubit until signals from it may arrive. We explain why this is in perfect agreement with the existence of nonlocal correlations and previous results which were used to claim apparent causality problems for Fermi's two-atom system.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1103.4129,
title = {The Fermi problem with artificial atoms in circuit QED},
author = {Carlos Sabin and Marco del Rey and Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll and Juan Leon},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1103.4129},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
4 pages, 2 figures; typos corrected, introduction revised and experimental discussion extended, results unchanged