Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1820942 | Physica C: Superconductivity and its Applications | 2006 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
A strong exchange field acting on the electrons in a ferromagnet-metal (FM) provokes the damped oscillatory behavior of the superconducting order parameter. This effect is an origin of the Ï-junction realization in superconductor-FM-superconductor (S-FM-S) systems. In the Ï-junction SQUID, a quantum coherent two-level state (qubit) is formed without an external magnetic field. Therefore, it is believed that this system becomes a quiet qubit. In the S-FM-S systems, however, the quasiparticle excitation in FM region gives rise to a strong Ohmic dissipation, so that the coherence time becomes very short. Instead, we theoretically propose a new Ï-junction qubit which consists of a superconducting ring with a ferromagnetic insulator (FI). We show that the quasiparticle dissipation of this S-FI-S ring (SQUID) is very weak. This feature and the quietness of this system make it possible to realize a qubit with long decoherence time.
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Authors
Shiro Kawabata, Satoshi Kashiwaya, Yasuhiro Asano, Yukio Tanaka,