Quantum breathers in capacitively coupled Josephson junctions: Correlations, number conservation, and entanglement

Details Quantum breathers in capacitively coupled Josephson junctions: Correlations, number conservation, and entanglement Quantum breathers in capacitively coupled Josephson junctions: Correlations, number conservation, and entanglement

2007-07-26

arxiv.org/abs/0707.3955v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

10 pages, 9 figures. Improved version with further discussions. Accepted in Physical Review B

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.77.024308

We consider the classical and quantum dynamics of excitations in a system of two capacitively coupled Josephson junctions. In the classical case the equations of motion admit discrete breather solutions, which are time periodic and localized predominantly on one of the junctions. In the quantum case breather states are found in the central part of the energy spectrum of the confined nonescaping states of the system. We perform a systematic analysis of their tunneling frequency, site correlations, fluctuations of the number of quanta, and entanglement. Quantum breather states show strong site correlation of quanta and are characterized by a strong excitation of quanta on one junction which perform slow coherent tunneling motion from one junction to the other. They suppress fluctuations of the total number of excited quanta. Quantum breather states are the least entangled states among the group of eigenstates in the same range of the energy spectrum. We describe how quantum breather excitations could be experimentally observed by employing the already developed techniques for quantum information processing using Josephson junctions.

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