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Phonon-induced decoherence and dissipation in donor-based charge qubits
We investigate the phonon-induced decoherence and dissipation in a
donor-based charge quantum bit realized by the orbital states of an electron
shared by two dopant ions which are implanted in a silicon host crystal. The
dopant ions are taken from the group-V elements Bi, As, P, Sb. The excess
electron is coupled to deformation potential acoustic phonons which dominate in
the Si host. The particular geometry tailors a non-monotonous frequency
distribution of the phonon modes. We determine the exact qubit dynamics under
the influence of the phonons by employing the numerically exact quasi-adiabatic
propagator path integral scheme thereby taking into account all bath-induced
correlations. In particular, we have improved the scheme by completely
eliminating the Trotter discretization error by a Hirsch-Fye extrapolation. By
comparing the exact results to those of a Born-Markov approximation we find
that the latter yields appropriate estimates for the decoherence and relaxation
rates. However, noticeable quantitative corrections due to non-Markovian
contributions appear.Comment: 8 pages, 8 figures, published online in Eur.Phys.J.B, article in
press; the original publication is avaiable at www.eurphysj.or
Decoherence and dissipation during a quantum XOR gate operation
The dynamics of a quantum XOR gate operation in a two-qubit system being
coupled to a bath of quantum harmonic oscillators is investigated. Upon
applying the numerical quasiadiabatic propagator path integral method, we
obtain the numerically precise time-resolved evolution of this interacting
two-qubit system in presence of time-dependent external fields without further
approximations. We simulate the dissipative gate operation for characteristic
experimental realizations of condensed matter qubits; namely, the flux and
charge qubits realized in superconducting Josephson systems and qubits formed
with semiconductor quantum dots. Moreover, we study systematically the quality
of the XOR gate by determining the four characteristic gate quantifiers:
fidelity, purity, the quantum degree, and the entanglement capability of the
gate. Two different types of errors in the qubits have been modelled, i.e.,
bit-flip errors and phase errors. The dependence of the quality of the gate
operation on the environmental temperature, on the friction strength stemming
from the system-bath interaction, and on the strength of the interqubit
coupling is systematically explored: Our main finding is that the four gate
quantifiers depend only weakly on temperature, but are rather sensitive to the
friction strength.Comment: 16 pages including 1 table and 5 figure
Dynamical bistability in the driven circuit QED
We show that the nonlinear response of a driven circuit quantum
electrodynamics setup displays antiresonant multiphoton transitions, as
recently observed in a transmon qubit device. By including photon leaking, we
explain the lineshape by a perturbative and a semiclassical analysis. We derive
a bistable semiclassical quasienergy surface whose lowest quasienergy
eigenstate is squeezed, allowing for a squeezing-dependent local effective
temperature. We study the escape dynamics out of the metastable state and find
signatures of dynamical tunneling, similar as for the quantum Duffing
oscillator.Comment: submitted to PR
BCS theory of driven superconductivity
We study the impact of a time-dependent external driving of the lattice
phonons in a minimal model of a BCS superconductor. Upon evaluating the
driving-induced vertex corrections of the phonon-mediated electron-electron
interaction, we show that parametric phonon driving can be used to elevate the
critical temperature , while a dipolar phonon drive has no effect. We
provide simple analytic expressions for the enhancement factor of .
Furthermore, a mean-field analysis of a nonlinear phonon-phonon interaction
also shows that phonon anharmonicities further amplify . Our results hold
universally for the large class of normal BCS superconductors
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