Semiclassical analysis of dark-state transient dynamics in waveguide circuit QED
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2020

The interaction between superconducting qubits and one-dimensional microwave transmission lines has been studied experimentally and theoretically in the past two decades. In this work, we investigate the spontaneous emission of an initially excited artificial atom which is capacitively coupled to a semi-infinite transmission line, shorted at one end. This configuration can be viewed as an atom in front of a mirror. The distance between the atom and the mirror introduces a time delay in the system, which we take into account fully. When the delay time equals an integer number of atom oscillation periods, the atom converges into a dark state after an initial decay period. The dark state is an effect of destructive interference between the reflected part of the field and the part directly emitted by the atom. Based on circuit quantization, we derive linearized equations of motion for the system and use these for a semiclassical analysis of the transient dynamics. We also make a rigorous connection to the quantum optics system-reservoir approach and compare these two methods to describe the dynamics. We find that both approaches are equivalent for transmission lines with a low characteristic impedance, while they differ when this impedance is higher than the typical impedance of the superconducting artificial atom.

Författare

Emely Wiegand

Chalmers, Mikroteknologi och nanovetenskap, Tillämpad kvantfysik

Göran Johansson

Chalmers, Mikroteknologi och nanovetenskap, Tillämpad kvantfysik

Benjamin Rousseaux

Chalmers, Mikroteknologi och nanovetenskap, Tillämpad kvantfysik

Chalmers, Fysik, Bionanofotonik

Physical Review A

24699926 (ISSN) 24699934 (eISSN)

Vol. 101 3 033801

Styrkeområden

Nanovetenskap och nanoteknik

Ämneskategorier

Atom- och molekylfysik och optik

Annan fysik

Den kondenserade materiens fysik

DOI

10.1103/PhysRevA.101.033801

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