Weak localization and conductance fluctuations-like effects in Qubits driven by biharmonic signals

We investigate the effect of broken time reversal symmetry in flux qubits driven by a biharmonic magnetic flux signal with a phase lag. In the regime of large relaxation times, we explicitly compute the transition rate between the ground and the excited state, accounting for decoherence as a classic...

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Main Authors: Ferrón, Alejandro, Domínguez, Daniel, Sánchez, María José
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Level crossings
Localization
Magnetic flux
Phase lag
Physics
System effectiveness
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Summary:We investigate the effect of broken time reversal symmetry in flux qubits driven by a biharmonic magnetic flux signal with a phase lag. In the regime of large relaxation times, we explicitly compute the transition rate between the ground and the excited state, accounting for decoherence as a classical noise. Through a direct analogy between interference effects at the avoided level crossing and scattering events in weakly disordered electronic mesoscopic systems, the transition rate plays the role of an effective transmittance while the phase lag acts as a time reversal control parameter. Clear signatures of both weak localization and conductance fluctuations-like effects are predicted. Their behavior is studied as a function of the coherence rate, and a comparison with recent experimental results is performed. Our study shows that it is decoherence, and not the driving protocol, what limits the experimental detection of weak localization effects.
ISSN:1742-6588
1742-6596
DOI:10.1088/1742-6596/568/5/052028