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Plasma Waves in Anisotropic Superconducting Films Below and Above the Plasma Frequency
We consider wave propagation inside an anisotropic superconducting film
sandwiched between two semi-infinite non-conducting bounding dieletric media
such that along the c-axis, perpendicular to the surfaces, there is a plasma
frequency below the superconducting gap. Propagation is assumed to
be parallel to the surfaces in the dielectric medium, where amplitudes decay
exponentially.Below , the amplitude also evanesces inside the film,
and we retrieve the experimentally measured lower dispersion relation branch,
, and the recently proposed higher frequency
branch, .Above , propagation is of the
guided wave type, i.e., a dispersive plane wave confined inside the film that
reflects into the dielectric interfaces,and the modes are approximately
described by , where
is discussed here.Comment: 26 pages,4 figures.Submitte
Quantum dynamics of a dc-SQUID coupled to an asymmetric Cooper pair transistor
We present a theoretical analysis of the quantum dynamics of a
superconducting circuit based on a highly asymmetric Cooper pair transistor
(ACPT) in parallel to a dc-SQUID. Starting from the full Hamiltonian we show
that the circuit can be modeled as a charge qubit (ACPT) coupled to an
anharmonic oscillator (dc-SQUID). Depending on the anharmonicity of the SQUID,
the Hamiltonian can be reduced either to one that describes two coupled qubits
or to the Jaynes-Cummings Hamiltonian. Here the dc-SQUID can be viewed as a
tunable micron-size resonator. The coupling term, which is a combination of a
capacitive and a Josephson coupling between the two qubits, can be tuned from
the very strong- to the zero-coupling regimes. It describes very precisely the
tunable coupling strength measured in this circuit and explains the
'quantronium' as well as the adiabatic quantum transfer read-out.Comment: 20 page
Coherent oscillations in a superconducting multi-level quantum system
We have observed coherent time evolution of states in a multi-level quantum
system, formed by a current-biased dc SQUID. The manipulation of the quantum
states is achieved by resonant microwave pulses of flux. The number of quantum
states participating in the coherent oscillations increases with increasing
microwave power. Quantum measurement is performed by a nanosecond flux pulse
which projects the final state onto one of two different voltage states of the
dc SQUID, which can be read out
Dynamical Behavior of a Squid Ring Coupled to a Quantized Electromagnetic Field
In this paper we investigate the dynamical behavior of a SQUID ring coupled
to a quantized single-mode electromagnetic field. We have calculated the
eigenstates of the combined fully quantum mechanical SQUID-field system.
Interesting phenomena occur when the energy difference between the usual
symmetric and anti-symmetric SQUID states equals the field energy . We find the
low-energy lying entangled stationary states of the system and demonstrate that
its dynamics is dominated by coherent Rabi oscillations.Comment: 6 pages, 2 figures. to be published on International Journal of
Modern Physics
Intermittency of glassy relaxation and the emergence of a non-equilibrium spontaneous measure in the aging regime
We consider heat exchange processes between non-equilibrium aging systems (in
their activated regime) and the thermal bath in contact. We discuss a scenario
where two different heat exchange processes concur in the overall heat
dissipation: a stimulated fast process determined by the temperature of the
bath and a spontaneous intermittent process determined by the fact that the
system has been prepared in a non-equilibrium state. The latter is described by
a probability distribution function (PDF) that has an exponential tail of width
given by a parameter , and satisfies a fluctuation theorem (FT)
governed by that parameter. The value of is proportional to the
so-called effective temperature, thereby providing a practical way to
experimentally measure it by analyzing the PDF of intermittent events.Comment: Latex file, 8 pages + 5 postscript figure
Optimal control of circuit quantum electrodynamics in one and two dimensions
Optimal control can be used to significantly improve multi-qubit gates in
quantum information processing hardware architectures based on superconducting
circuit quantum electrodynamics. We apply this approach not only to dispersive
gates of two qubits inside a cavity, but, more generally, to architectures
based on two-dimensional arrays of cavities and qubits. For high-fidelity gate
operations, simultaneous evolutions of controls and couplings in the two
coupling dimensions of cavity grids are shown to be significantly faster than
conventional sequential implementations. Even under experimentally realistic
conditions speedups by a factor of three can be gained. The methods immediately
scale to large grids and indirect gates between arbitrary pairs of qubits on
the grid. They are anticipated to be paradigmatic for 2D arrays and lattices of
controllable qubits.Comment: Published version
Observation of transition from escape dynamics to underdamped phase diffusion in a Josephson junction
We have investigated the dynamics of underdamped Josephson junctions. In
addition to the usual crossover between macroscopic quantum tunnelling and
thermally activated (TA) behaviour we observe in our samples with relatively
small Josephson coupling E_J, for the first time, the transition from TA
behaviour to underdamped phase diffusion. Above the crossover temperature the
threshold for switching into the finite voltage state becomes extremely sharp.
We propose a (T,E_J) phase-diagram with various regimes and show that for a
proper description of it dissipation and level quantization in a metastable
well are crucial.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure
First experimental evidence of one-dimensional plasma modes in superconducting thin wires
We have studied niobium superconducting thin wires deposited onto a
SrTiO substrate. By measuring the reflection coefficient of the wires,
resonances are observed in the superconducting state in the 130 MHz to 4 GHz
range. They are interpreted as standing wave resonances of one-dimensional
plasma modes propagating along the superconducting wire. The experimental
dispersion law, versus , presents a linear dependence over the
entire wave vector range. The modes are softened as the temperature increases
close the superconducting transition temperature. Very good agreement are
observed between our data and the dispersion relation predicted by Kulik and
Mooij and Sch\"on.Comment: Submitted to Physical review Letter
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