Superconducting phase qubits with shadow-evaporated Josephson junctions

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/26/6/060308

Abstract We develop a fabrication process for the superconducting phase qubits in which Josephson junctions for both the qubit and superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) detector are prepared by shadow evaporation with a suspended bridge. Al junctions with areas as small as 0.05 μ² are fabricated for the qubit, in which the number of the decoherence-causing two-level systems (TLS) residing in the tunnel barrier and proportional to the junction area are greatly reduced. The measured energy spectrum shows no avoided crossing arising from coherent TLS in the experimentally reachable flux bias range of the phase qubit, which demonstrates the energy relaxation time T₁ and dephasing time T_φ on the order of 100 ns and 50 ns, respectively. We discuss several possible origins of decoherence from incoherent or weakly-coupled coherent TLS and further improvements of the qubit performance.

Keywords: superconducting phase qubit two-level system decoherence shadow evaporated junction

Received: 13 January 2017
Revised: 28 February 2017
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PACS:	03.67.Lx	(Quantum computation architectures and implementations)
	03.65.Yz	(Decoherence; open systems; quantum statistical methods)
	85.25.Cp	(Josephson devices)
	74.50.+r	(Tunneling phenomena; Josephson effects)

Fund: Project supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant Nos. 2014CB921202, 2015CB921104, and 2016YFA0300601) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 91321208 and 11674380).

Corresponding Authors: Shi-Ping Zhao
E-mail: spzhao@iphy.ac.cn

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Fei-Fan Su(宿非凡), Wei-Yang Liu(刘伟洋), Hui-Kai Xu(徐晖凯), Hui Deng(邓辉), Zhi-Yuan Li(李志远), Ye Tian(田野), Xiao-Bo Zhu(朱晓波), Dong-Ning Zheng(郑东宁), Li Lv(吕力), Shi-Ping Zhao(赵士平) Superconducting phase qubits with shadow-evaporated Josephson junctions 2017 Chin. Phys. B 26 060308

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