[quantum-info] Special IQC seminar Tuesday May 27 at 10:30 am
Matthew Fries
mfries at uwaterloo.ca
Mon May 26 13:31:02 EDT 2014
Seminar
Institute for Quantum Computing
Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 10:30AM
QNC 1501
Superconducting qubit circuits under extreme conditions: Cavity QED in the ultrastrong-coupling regime & Landau-Zaner-Stückelberg interfereometry
Sahel Ashhab
Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute, Qatar Foundation
Superconducting circuits are allowing experimentalists to explore physical systems in parameter regimes that were not accessible using other systems in the past. In this talk, I will cover two problems that are representative of this situation. First, I will talk about cavity QED systems in the case where the coupling strength is comparable to the atomic and cavity frequencies. In this regime, the ground state of the system can become a highly correlated atom-cavity state. We analyze the behavior of the ground state as the different parameters are varied, and we investigate the transitions between different types of ground states. In the second part of the talk, I will discuss the problem of a qubit that is subjected to large-amplitude driving, such that it undergoes a periodic sequence of Landau-Zener transitions. We analyze the resonance conditions and the dynamics of the qubit in this situation. In particular, we find that there are two qualitatively different types of resonance behavior occuring in the limits of slow and fast Landau-Zener passage.
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