Dephasing of interacting tunneling systems

Dephasing of interacting tunneling systems

We investigate the phase coherence time of weakly interacting tunneling systems (TSs). We show that all neighbors of a given TS form together with the TS of interest an entangled cluster as long as the linewidth of the excitation of the neighbor is smaller than its interaction energy with the TS of interest. Thus, the relaxation of all neighbors in the cluster contributes to the dephasing of th...

Tunneling of Interacting Fermions in 1D Systems

Using the self-consistent Hartree–Fock approximation for spinless electrons at zero temperature, we study tunneling of the interacting electron gas through a single δ barrier in a finite one-dimensional wire connected to contacts. Our results exhibit features known from correlated many-body models. In particular, the conductance decays with the wire length as ∝ L−2α, where the power α is univer...

Dynamical decoupling and dephasing in interacting two-level systems.

We implement dynamical decoupling techniques to mitigate noise and enhance the lifetime of an entangled state that is formed in a superconducting flux qubit coupled to a microscopic two-level system. By rapidly changing the qubit's transition frequency relative to the two-level system, we realize a refocusing pulse that reduces dephasing due to fluctuations in the transition frequencies, thereb...

Time-dependent transport in interacting and noninteracting resonant-tunneling systems.

Environment-induced dephasing versus von Neumann measurements in proton tunneling

In this work we compare two theoretical approaches to modeling the action of the environment on an open quantum system. It is often assumed that as the temperature of the environment surrounding a quantum system increases, so does the speed of environment-induced dephasing, or decoherence (dynamical noise), and so the efficacy of processes such as quantum tunneling drops. An alternative way of ...