Quasienergies and dynamics of a superconducting qubit in a time-modulated field

Gor A. Abovyan; Gagik Yu. Kryuchkyan

doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.88.033811

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Quasienergies and dynamics of a superconducting qubit in a time-modulated field

Gor A. Abovyan, Gagik Yu. Kryuchkyan

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevA.88.033811 · Physical Review A

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Abstract

We analyze the dynamics of a superconducting qubit and the phenomenon of multiorder Rabi oscillations in the presence of a time-modulated external field. Such a field is also presented as a bichromatic field consisting of two spectral components, which are symmetrically detuned from the qubit resonance frequency. This approach leads to obtaining qualitative quantum effects beyond those for the case of monochromatic excitation of qubits. We calculate Floquet states and quasienergies of the composite system “superconducting qubit plus time-modulated field” for various resonant regimes. We analyze the dependence of quasienergies from the amplitude of an external field, demonstrating the zeros of difference between quasienergies. We show that, as a rule, populations of qubit states exhibit aperiodic oscillations, but we demonstrate the specific important regimes in which dynamics of populations becomes periodically regular.