Controlling Decoherence in Superconducting Qubits: Phenomenological Model and Microscopic Origin of 1/f Noise

Abstract

During these three years project we have made a very significant progress in our research program, especially in the theoretical understanding of the microscopic origin of the noise. Briefly, we came up with microscopic models for charge noise, critical current fluctuations and quasiparticle poisoning which include a completely novel physical origin of these noises. We also proposed a model for excess low frequency flux noise which agrees very well with all existing data. We established strong and very active collaborations with leading experimental groups [NEC, Tsukuba (Dr. O. Astafiev and Dr. Y. Pashkin), USCB (Prof. J. Martinis), UW-Madison (Dr. R. McDermott), Institute Neel GRENOBLE (Dr. O. Buisson and W. Guichard), Rutgers University (Prof. M. Gershenson] and discussed with them specific experiments to identify the sources of noise. The noise measurements planned by these groups will provide the information that will pinpoint the origin of all these different noise types in the next few years. We believe we are now at the crucial point in our noise origin and full characterization study.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 28, 2011
Accession Number
ADA545158

Entities

People

  • Lara Faoro
  • Lev B. Ioffe

Organizations

  • Rutgers University–New Brunswick

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Agreements
  • Cross Correlation
  • Department Of Defense
  • Dielectrics
  • Engineering
  • Frequency
  • Josephson Junctions
  • Low Temperature
  • Materials
  • Mathematics
  • Noise
  • Phase Transformations
  • Poisoning
  • Quasiparticles
  • Students
  • Technology Transfer

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Acoustics.
  • Research Science/Academic Research
  • Theoretical Analysis.

Technology Areas

  • Quantum Science - Quantum Dots