| Issue |
EPL
Volume 80, Number 4, November 2007
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| Article Number | 40011 | |
| Number of page(s) | 5 | |
| Section | General | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/80/40011 | |
| Published online | 25 October 2007 | |
Crossover from weak- to strong-coupling regime in dispersive circuit QED
1
Physics Department, ASC and CeNS, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität - Theresienstr. 37, 80333 Munich, Germany
2
IQC and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Waterloo - 200 University Ave. W, Waterloo, ON, N2L 3G1, Canada
3
Max-Planck Institute for Quantum Optics - Hans-Kopfermann-Strasse 1, D-85748 Garching, Germany
4
Sección Física, Departamento de Ciencias, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú - Apartado 1761, Lima, Peru
Received:
20
April
2007
Accepted:
19
September
2007
We study the decoherence of a superconducting qubit due to the dispersive coupling to a damped harmonic oscillator. We go beyond the weak qubit-oscillator coupling, which we associate with a phase Purcell effect, and enter into a strong coupling regime, with qualitatively different behavior of the dephasing rate. We identify and give a physicaly intuitive discussion of both decoherence mechanisms. Our results can be applied, with small adaptations, to a large variety of other physical systems, e.g. trapped ions and cavity QED, boosting theoretical and experimental decoherence studies.
PACS: 03.65.Yz – Decoherence; open systems; quantum statistical methods / 85.25.-j – Superconducting devices / 42.50.Pq – Cavity quantum electrodynamics; micromasers
© Europhysics Letters Association, 2007
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