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Journal Article | FZJ-2019-04580 |
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2019
APS
College Park, Md.
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Please use a persistent id in citations: http://hdl.handle.net/2128/22719 doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.107704
Abstract: We evaluate the rates of energy and phase relaxation of a superconducting qubit caused by stray photons with energy exceeding the threshold for breaking a Cooper pair. All channels of relaxation within this mechanism are associated with the change in the charge parity of the qubit, enabling the separation of the photon-assisted processes from other contributions to the relaxation rates. Among the signatures of the new mechanism is the same order of rates of the transitions in which a qubit loses or gains energy, which is in agreement with recent experiments. Our theory offers the possibility to characterize the electromagnetic environment of superconducting devices at the single-photon level for frequencies above the superconducting gap.
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