arXiv · cond-mat/0408594
Reduced Visibility of Rabi Oscillations in Superconducting Qubits
Abstract
Coherent Rabi oscillations between quantum states of superconducting micro-circuits have been observed in a number of experiments, albeit with a visibility which is typically much smaller than unity. Here, we show that the coherent coupling to background charge fluctuators [R.W. Simmonds et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 077003 (2004)] leads to a significantly reduced visibility if the Rabi frequency is comparable to the coupling energy of micro-circuit and fluctuator. For larger Rabi frequencies, transitions to the second excited state of the superconducting micro-circuit become dominant in suppressing the Rabi oscillation visibility. We also calculate the probability for Bogoliubov quasi-particle excitations in typical Rabi oscillation experiments.
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Florian Meier, Daniel Loss. 2004-08-26. Reduced Visibility of Rabi Oscillations in Superconducting Qubits. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.71.094519
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