Multi-junction effects in dc SQUID phase qubits
| dc.contributor.advisor | Wellstood, Frederick C | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Cooper, Benjamin Kevin | en_US |
| dc.contributor.department | Physics | en_US |
| dc.contributor.publisher | Digital Repository at the University of Maryland | en_US |
| dc.contributor.publisher | University of Maryland (College Park, Md.) | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-02-11T06:32:18Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2014-02-11T06:32:18Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2013 | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | I discuss experimental and theoretical results on an LC filtered dc SQUID phase qubit. This qubit is an asymmetric aluminum dc SQUID, with junction critical currents 1.5 and 26.8 μA, on a sapphire substrate. The layout differs from earlier designs by incorporating a superconducting ground plane and weakly coupled coplanar waveguide microwave drive line to control microwave-qubit coupling. I begin with a discussion of quantizing lumped element circuit models. I use nodal analysis to construct a 2d model for the dc SQUID phase qubit that goes beyond a single junction approximation. I then discuss an extension of this ``normal modes'' SQUID model to include the on-chip LC filter with design frequency ∼ 180 MHz. I show that the filter plus SQUID model yields an effective Jaynes-Cummings Hamiltonian for the filter-SQUID system with coupling g / 2 π ∼ 32 MHz. I present the qubit design, including a noise model predicting a lifetime T<sub>1</sub> = 1.2 μs for the qubit based on the design parameters. I characterized the qubit with measurements of the current-flux characteristic, spectroscopy, and Rabi oscillations. I measured T<sub>1</sub> = 230 ns, close to the value 320 ns given by the noise model using the measured parameters. Rabi oscillations show a pure dephasing time T<sub>φ</sub> = 1100 ns. The spectroscopic and Rabi data suggest two-level qubit dynamics are inadequate for describing the system. I show that the effective Jaynes-Cummings model reproduces some of the unusual features. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1903/14932 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.subject.pqcontrolled | Low temperature physics | en_US |
| dc.subject.pqcontrolled | Quantum physics | en_US |
| dc.subject.pquncontrolled | phase qubit | en_US |
| dc.subject.pquncontrolled | quantum computing | en_US |
| dc.subject.pquncontrolled | SQUID | en_US |
| dc.subject.pquncontrolled | superconducting | en_US |
| dc.title | Multi-junction effects in dc SQUID phase qubits | en_US |
| dc.type | Dissertation | en_US |
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