Noise correlations in a flux qubit with tunable tunnel coupling
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Yoshihara, Fumiki; Nakamura, Yasunobu; Gustavsson, Simon; Bylander, Jonas; Yan, Fei; Oliver, William D.; ... Show more Show less
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We have measured flux-noise correlations in a tunable superconducting flux qubit. The device consists of two loops that independently control the qubit’s energy splitting and tunnel coupling. Low-frequency flux noise in the loops causes fluctuations of the qubit frequency and leads to dephasing. Since the noises in the two loops couple to different terms of the qubit Hamiltonian, a measurement of the dephasing rate at different bias points provides a way to extract both the amplitude and the sign of the noise correlations. We find that the flux fluctuations in the two loops are anticorrelated, consistent with a model where the flux noise is generated by randomly oriented unpaired spins on the metal surface.
Date issued
2011-07Department
Lincoln Laboratory; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Laboratory of ElectronicsJournal
Physical Review B
Publisher
American Physical Society
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Gustavsson, Simon et al. “Noise correlations in a flux qubit with tunable tunnel coupling.” Physical Review B 84 (2011): n. pag. Web. 17 Nov. 2011. © 2011 American Physical Society
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ISSN
1098-0121
1550-235X