Synthetic fractional flux quanta in a ring of superconducting qubits

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Main Authors: Chirolli, Luca, Polo, Juan, Catelani, Gianluigi, Amico, Luigi
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Published: 2024
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author Chirolli, Luca
Polo, Juan
Catelani, Gianluigi
Amico, Luigi
author_facet Chirolli, Luca
Polo, Juan
Catelani, Gianluigi
Amico, Luigi
contents A ring of capacitively coupled transmons threaded by a synthetic magnetic field is studied as a realization of a strongly interacting bosonic system. The synthetic flux is imparted through a specific Floquet modulation scheme based on a suitable periodic sequence of Lorentzian pulses that are known as 'Levitons'. Such scheme has the advantage to preserve the translation invariance of the system and to work at the qubit sweet spots. We employ this system to demonstrate the concept of fractional values of flux quanta. Although such fractionalization phenomenon was originally predicted for bright solitons in cold atoms, it may be in fact challenging to access with that platform. Here, we show how fractional flux quanta can be read out in the absorption spectrum of a suitable 'scattering experiment' in which the qubit ring is driven by microwaves.
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spellingShingle Synthetic fractional flux quanta in a ring of superconducting qubits
Chirolli, Luca
Polo, Juan
Catelani, Gianluigi
Amico, Luigi
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Superconductivity
Quantum Physics
A ring of capacitively coupled transmons threaded by a synthetic magnetic field is studied as a realization of a strongly interacting bosonic system. The synthetic flux is imparted through a specific Floquet modulation scheme based on a suitable periodic sequence of Lorentzian pulses that are known as 'Levitons'. Such scheme has the advantage to preserve the translation invariance of the system and to work at the qubit sweet spots. We employ this system to demonstrate the concept of fractional values of flux quanta. Although such fractionalization phenomenon was originally predicted for bright solitons in cold atoms, it may be in fact challenging to access with that platform. Here, we show how fractional flux quanta can be read out in the absorption spectrum of a suitable 'scattering experiment' in which the qubit ring is driven by microwaves.
title Synthetic fractional flux quanta in a ring of superconducting qubits
topic Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Superconductivity
Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.06511