Josephson-Junction Qubits and the Readout Process by Single-Electron Transistors

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1998-11-03

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9811029v2

In: Exploring the Quantum-Classical Frontier, pp. 405-440. Eds. J.R. Friedman and S. Han, Nova Science, Commack, NY, 2002

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

RevTex, 19 pages, 9 figures; contribution to "Exploring the Quantum-Classical Frontier: Recent Advances in Macroscopic and Mes

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Several physical realizations of quantum bits have been proposed. Of those, nano-electronic devices appear most suitable for large-scale integration and potential applications. We suggest to use low-capacitance Josephson junctions, exploiting the coherence of tunneling in the superconducting state combined with the possibility to control individual charges by Coulomb blockade effects (cond-mat/9706016,cond-mat/9808067). These systems constitute quantum bits, with logical states differing by one Cooper-pair charge. Single- and two-bit operations can be performed by applying a sequence of gate voltages. The phase coherence time is sufficiently long to allow a series of these steps. In addition to the manipulation of qubits the resulting quantum state has to be read out. This can be accomplished by coupling a single-electron transistor capacitively to the qubit (cond-mat/9801125). To describe this quantum measurement process we study the time evolution of the density matrix of the coupled system. Only when a transport voltage is turned on, the transistor destroys the phase coherence of the qubit; in this case within a short time. The measurement is accomplished after a longer time scale, when the signal resolves the different quantum states. At still longer times the measurement process itself destroys the information about the initial state. We present a suitable set of system parameters, which can be realized by present-day technology.

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