Fragility of flux qubits against quasiparticle tunneling

被引：23

作者：

Leppaekangas, Juha ^{[1
]}

Marthaler, Michael

机构：

[1] Karlsruhe Inst Technol, Inst Theoret Festkorperphys, D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany

来源：

PHYSICAL REVIEW B | 2012年 / 85卷 / 14期

关键词：

STATE;

D O I：

10.1103/PhysRevB.85.144503

中图分类号：

T [工业技术];

学科分类号：

08 ;

摘要：

We study decoherence in superconducting qubits due to quasiparticle tunneling which is enhanced by two known deviations from the equilibrium BCS theory. The first process corresponds to tunneling of an already existing quasiparticle across the junction. The quasiparticle density is increased, e.g., because of an effective quasiparticle doping of the system. The second process is quasiparticle tunneling by breaking of a Cooper pair. This can happen at typical energies of superconducting qubits if there is an extended quasiparticle density inside the gap. We calculate the induced energy decay and pure dephasing rates in typical qubit designs. Assuming the lowest reported value of the nonequilibrium quasiparticle density in Aluminum, we find for the persistent-current flux qubit decay times of the order of recent measurements. Using the typical subgap density of states in Niobium we also reproduce observed decay times in the corresponding Niobium flux qubits.

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