Decoherence in Josephson vortex quantum bits: Long-Josephson-junction approach to a two-state system
- 6 June 2006
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 73 (21), 214506
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.73.214506
Abstract
We investigated decoherence of a Josephson vortex quantum bit (qubit) in dissipative and noisy environment. As the Josephson vortex qubit (JVQ) is fabricated by using a long Josephson junction (LJJ), we use the perturbed sine-Gordon equation to describe the phase dynamics representing a two-state system and estimate the effects of quasiparticle dissipation and weakly fluctuating critical and bias currents on the relaxation time and on the dephasing time . We show that the critical current fluctuation does not contribute to dephasing of the qubit in the lowest order approximation. Modeling the weak current variation from magnetic field fluctuations in the LJJ by using the Gaussian colored noise with long correlation time, we show that the coherence time is limited by the low frequency current noise at very low temperatures. Also, we show that a ultra-long coherence time may be obtained from the JVQ by using experimentally accessible value of physical parameters.
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