Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
1859111 Physics Letters A 2015 9 Pages PDF
Abstract

•We numerically study the decay of coherences in a solid-state qubit due to an arbitrary environment.•We focus on the effect of longitudinal and transversal noise.•We study thermal environments and low-frequency 1/f1/f noise.•We provide analytical estimations for the decoherence timescales.

The interaction between solid-state qubits and their environmental degrees of freedom produces non-unitary effects like decoherence and dissipation. Uncontrolled decoherence is one of the main obstacles that must be overcome in quantum information processing. We study the dynamical decay of coherences in a solid-state qubit by means of the use of a master equation. We analyse the effects induced by thermal ohmic environments and low-frequency 1/f1/f noise. We focus on the effect of longitudinal and transversal noise on the superconducting qubit's dynamics. Our results can be used to design experimental future setups when manipulating superconducting qubits.

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