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Title: Landau-Zener-Stückelberg-Majorana interference in a 3D transmon driven by a chirped microwave

Journal Article · · Applied Physics Letters
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4944327· OSTI ID:22591445
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  1. National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, School of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093 (China)
  2. Research Institute of Superconductor Electronics, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093 (China)
  3. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045 (United States)

By driving a 3D transmon with microwave fields, we generate an effective avoided energy-level crossing. Then we chirp microwave frequency, which is equivalent to driving the system through the avoided energy-level crossing by sweeping the avoided crossing. A double-passage chirp produces Landau-Zener-Stückelberg-Majorana (LZSM) interference that agree well with the numerical results, especially with the initial state being an eigen-energy state in the center of an avoided level crossing. A time-resolved state tomography measurement is performed in the evolution of LZSM interference, showing an experimental evidence for the dynamical evolution of quantum state. Our method is fully applicable to other quantum systems that contain no intrinsic avoided level crossing, providing an alternative approach for quantum control and quantum simulation.

OSTI ID:
22591445
Journal Information:
Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 108, Issue 11; Other Information: (c) 2016 AIP Publishing LLC; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0003-6951
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English