Two-level system hyperpolarization using a quantum Szilard engine

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Auteurs principaux: Spiecker, Martin, Paluch, Patrick, Gosling, Nicolas, Drucker, Niv, Matityahu, Shlomi, Gusenkova, Daria, Günzler, Simon, Rieger, Dennis, Takmakov, Ivan, Valenti, Francesco, Winkel, Patrick, Gebauer, Richard, Sander, Oliver, Catelani, Gianluigi, Shnirman, Alexander, Ustinov, Alexey V., Wernsdorfer, Wolfgang, Cohen, Yonatan, Pop, Ioan M.
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author Spiecker, Martin
Paluch, Patrick
Gosling, Nicolas
Drucker, Niv
Matityahu, Shlomi
Gusenkova, Daria
Günzler, Simon
Rieger, Dennis
Takmakov, Ivan
Valenti, Francesco
Winkel, Patrick
Gebauer, Richard
Sander, Oliver
Catelani, Gianluigi
Shnirman, Alexander
Ustinov, Alexey V.
Wernsdorfer, Wolfgang
Cohen, Yonatan
Pop, Ioan M.
author_facet Spiecker, Martin
Paluch, Patrick
Gosling, Nicolas
Drucker, Niv
Matityahu, Shlomi
Gusenkova, Daria
Günzler, Simon
Rieger, Dennis
Takmakov, Ivan
Valenti, Francesco
Winkel, Patrick
Gebauer, Richard
Sander, Oliver
Catelani, Gianluigi
Shnirman, Alexander
Ustinov, Alexey V.
Wernsdorfer, Wolfgang
Cohen, Yonatan
Pop, Ioan M.
contents The innate complexity of solid state physics exposes superconducting quantum circuits to interactions with uncontrolled degrees of freedom degrading their coherence. By using a simple stabilization sequence we show that a superconducting fluxonium qubit is coupled to a two-level system (TLS) environment of unknown origin, with a relatively long energy relaxation time exceeding $50\,\text{ms}$. Implementing a quantum Szilard engine with an active feedback control loop allows us to decide whether the qubit heats or cools its TLS environment. The TLSs can be cooled down resulting in a four times lower qubit population, or they can be heated to manifest themselves as a negative temperature environment corresponding to a qubit population of $\sim 80\,\%$. We show that the TLSs and the qubit are each other's dominant loss mechanism and that the qubit relaxation is independent of the TLS populations. Understanding and mitigating TLS environments is therefore not only crucial to improve qubit lifetimes but also to avoid non-Markovian qubit dynamics.
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spellingShingle Two-level system hyperpolarization using a quantum Szilard engine
Spiecker, Martin
Paluch, Patrick
Gosling, Nicolas
Drucker, Niv
Matityahu, Shlomi
Gusenkova, Daria
Günzler, Simon
Rieger, Dennis
Takmakov, Ivan
Valenti, Francesco
Winkel, Patrick
Gebauer, Richard
Sander, Oliver
Catelani, Gianluigi
Shnirman, Alexander
Ustinov, Alexey V.
Wernsdorfer, Wolfgang
Cohen, Yonatan
Pop, Ioan M.
Quantum Physics
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Statistical Mechanics
The innate complexity of solid state physics exposes superconducting quantum circuits to interactions with uncontrolled degrees of freedom degrading their coherence. By using a simple stabilization sequence we show that a superconducting fluxonium qubit is coupled to a two-level system (TLS) environment of unknown origin, with a relatively long energy relaxation time exceeding $50\,\text{ms}$. Implementing a quantum Szilard engine with an active feedback control loop allows us to decide whether the qubit heats or cools its TLS environment. The TLSs can be cooled down resulting in a four times lower qubit population, or they can be heated to manifest themselves as a negative temperature environment corresponding to a qubit population of $\sim 80\,\%$. We show that the TLSs and the qubit are each other's dominant loss mechanism and that the qubit relaxation is independent of the TLS populations. Understanding and mitigating TLS environments is therefore not only crucial to improve qubit lifetimes but also to avoid non-Markovian qubit dynamics.
title Two-level system hyperpolarization using a quantum Szilard engine
topic Quantum Physics
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Statistical Mechanics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.00499