中国物理B ›› 2011, Vol. 20 ›› Issue (5): 50316-050316.doi: 10.1088/1674-1056/20/5/050316

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Macroscopic resonant tunneling in an rf-SQUID flux qubit

王轶文1, 于扬1, 丛山桦2, 孙国柱2, 陈健2, 吴培亨2   

  1. (1)National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, School of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China; (2)Research Institute of Superconductor Electronics, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
  • 收稿日期:2010-10-08 修回日期:2010-12-10 出版日期:2011-05-15 发布日期:2011-05-15
  • 基金资助:
    Project supported by the New Century Excellent Talents in University, China, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11074114 and 10874074), and the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2011CBA00200).

Macroscopic resonant tunneling in an rf-SQUID flux qubit

Cong Shan-Hua (丛山桦)aWang Yi-Wen (王轶文)b, Sun Guo-Zhu (孙国柱)a, Chen Jian (陈健)aYu Yang (于扬)b, Wu Pei-Heng (吴培亨)a   

  1. a Research Institute of Superconductor Electronics, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China; b National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, School of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
  • Received:2010-10-08 Revised:2010-12-10 Online:2011-05-15 Published:2011-05-15
  • Supported by:
    Project supported by the New Century Excellent Talents in University, China, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11074114 and 10874074), and the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2011CBA00200).

摘要: We have observed the macroscopic resonant tunneling of magnetic flux between macroscopically distinct quantum states in a superconducting flux qubit. The dependences of the macroscopic resonant tunneling on the barrier height of the potential well, the flux bias and the initial state are investigated. Detailed measurements of the tunneling rate as a function of the flux bias reveal the feature of the quantum noise in the superconducting flux qubit.

关键词: rf-SQUID, macroscopic resonant tunneling, quantum noise, flux qubit

Abstract: We have observed the macroscopic resonant tunneling of magnetic flux between macroscopically distinct quantum states in a superconducting flux qubit. The dependences of the macroscopic resonant tunneling on the barrier height of the potential well, the flux bias and the initial state are investigated. Detailed measurements of the tunneling rate as a function of the flux bias reveal the feature of the quantum noise in the superconducting flux qubit.

Key words: rf-SQUID, macroscopic resonant tunneling, quantum noise, flux qubit

中图分类号:  (Tunneling, Josephson effect, Bose-Einstein condensates in periodic potentials, solitons, vortices, and topological excitations)

  • 03.75.Lm
85.25.Dq (Superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs)) 03.67.Lx (Quantum computation architectures and implementations) 42.50.Lc (Quantum fluctuations, quantum noise, and quantum jumps)