Issue |
EPL
Volume 77, Number 5, March 2007
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Article Number | 58005 | |
Number of page(s) | 4 | |
Section | Interdisciplinary Physics and Related Areas of Science and Technology | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/77/58005 | |
Published online | 22 February 2007 |
Flux qubit as a sensor of magnetic flux
1
Institute for Physical High Technology - P.O. Box 100239, D-07702 Jena, Germany
2
Novosibirsk State Technical University - 20 K. Marx Ave., 630092 Novosibirsk, Russia
Corresponding author: greenbergy@online.nsk.su
Received:
17
November
2006
Accepted:
17
January
2007
A magnetometer based on the quantum properties of a superconducting flux qubit is proposed. The main advantage of this device is that its sensitivity can be below the so-called “standard quantum limit” (for an oscillator this is half of the Plank constant). Moreover its transfer functions relative to the measured flux can be made to be about , which is an order of magnitude more than the best value for a conventional DC SQUIDs with a direct readout. We analyze here the voltage-to-flux, the phase-to-flux transfer functions and the main noise sources. We show that the experimental characteristics of a flux qubit, obtained in recent experiments, allow the use of a flux qubit as magnetometer with energy resolution close to the Planck constant.
PACS: 85.25.Cp – Josephson devices / 85.25.Dq – Superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs) / 84.37.+q – Measurements in electric variables (including voltage, current, resistance, capacitance, inductance, impedance, and admittance, etc.)
© Europhysics Letters Association, 2007
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