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Main Authors: Borrelli, Fabio, Miano, Giovanni, Forestiere, Carlo
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.21463
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author Borrelli, Fabio
Miano, Giovanni
Forestiere, Carlo
author_facet Borrelli, Fabio
Miano, Giovanni
Forestiere, Carlo
contents We investigate the reduced dynamics of two identical superconducting qubits capacitively coupled through a finite-length transmission line. Starting from circuit quantization, we derive a circuit Hamiltonian that naturally separates the line modes into even- and odd-parity sectors coupled to collective qubit operators. Depending on the hierarchy between the qubit frequency $ω_q$, the mode spacing $ω_{TL}$, and the coupling scale $ω_g$, the line acts either as a structured reservoir or as a discrete few-mode coupler. In the long-line continuum limit, each sector is described by a Drude--Lorentz spectral density and the dynamics is solved with the hierarchical equations of motion. Using the Breuer--Laine--Piilo measure, we identify the parameter region in which the reduced dynamics exhibits non-Markovian relaxation. In the short-line limit, the continuum description breaks down and the dynamics becomes respectively multimode or single-mode. This establishes a unified cQED picture of the dynamical regimes of finite-length transmission lines in superconducting-circuit architectures.
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spellingShingle Dynamical Regimes of Two Qubits Coupled through a Transmission Line
Borrelli, Fabio
Miano, Giovanni
Forestiere, Carlo
Quantum Physics
We investigate the reduced dynamics of two identical superconducting qubits capacitively coupled through a finite-length transmission line. Starting from circuit quantization, we derive a circuit Hamiltonian that naturally separates the line modes into even- and odd-parity sectors coupled to collective qubit operators. Depending on the hierarchy between the qubit frequency $ω_q$, the mode spacing $ω_{TL}$, and the coupling scale $ω_g$, the line acts either as a structured reservoir or as a discrete few-mode coupler. In the long-line continuum limit, each sector is described by a Drude--Lorentz spectral density and the dynamics is solved with the hierarchical equations of motion. Using the Breuer--Laine--Piilo measure, we identify the parameter region in which the reduced dynamics exhibits non-Markovian relaxation. In the short-line limit, the continuum description breaks down and the dynamics becomes respectively multimode or single-mode. This establishes a unified cQED picture of the dynamical regimes of finite-length transmission lines in superconducting-circuit architectures.
title Dynamical Regimes of Two Qubits Coupled through a Transmission Line
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.21463