Driven dynamics and rotary echo of a qubit tunably coupled to a harmonic oscillator

  • S. Gustavsson*
  • , J. Bylander
  • , F. Yan
  • , P. Forn-Díaz
  • , V. Bolkhovsky
  • , D. Braje
  • , G. Fitch
  • , K. Harrabi
  • , D. Lennon
  • , J. Miloshi
  • , P. Murphy
  • , R. Slattery
  • , S. Spector
  • , B. Turek
  • , T. Weir
  • , P. B. Welander
  • , F. Yoshihara
  • , D. G. Cory
  • , Y. Nakamura
  • , T. P. Orlando
  • W. D. Oliver
*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

We have investigated the driven dynamics of a superconducting flux qubit that is tunably coupled to a microwave resonator. We find that the qubit experiences an oscillating field mediated by off-resonant driving of the resonator, leading to strong modifications of the qubit Rabi frequency. This opens an additional noise channel, and we find that low-frequency noise in the coupling parameter causes a reduction of the coherence time during driven evolution. The noise can be mitigated with the rotary-echo pulse sequence, which, for driven systems, is analogous to the Hahn-echo sequence.

Original languageEnglish
Article number170503
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume108
Issue number17
DOIs
StatePublished - 27 Apr 2012

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Physics and Astronomy

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