Thermal and Residual Excited-State Population in a 3D Transmon Qubit
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Jin, X. Y.
Gudmundsen, Theodore J.
Miloshi, J.
Yan, F.
Kamal, Archana
Sears, Adam P.
Hover, David J.
Slattery, Richard L.
Yoder, Jonilyn Longenecker
Orlando, Terry Philip
Date Issued
June 2015
Journal
Physical Review Letters
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American Physical Society
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Jin, X. Y., et al. "Thermal and Residual Excited-State Population in a 3D Transmon Qubit." Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 240501 (June 2015). © 2015 American Physical Society
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Abstract
Remarkable advancements in coherence and control fidelity have been achieved in recent years with cryogenic solid-state qubits. Nonetheless, thermalizing such devices to their milliKelvin environments has remained a long-standing fundamental and technical challenge. In this context, we present a systematic study of the first-excited-state population in a 3D transmon superconducting qubit mounted in a dilution refrigerator with a variable temperature. Using a modified version of the protocol developed by Geerlings et al., we observe the excited-state population to be consistent with a Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution, i.e., a qubit in thermal equilibrium with the refrigerator, over the temperature range 35–150 mK. Below 35 mK, the excited-state population saturates at approximately 0.1%. We verified this result using a flux qubit with ten times stronger coupling to its readout resonator. We conclude that these qubits have effective temperature T_{eff}=35 mK. Assuming T[subscript eff] is due solely to hot quasiparticles, the inferred qubit lifetime is 108 μs and in plausible agreement with the measured 80 μs.
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Lincoln Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Laboratory of Electronics
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