Resonance inversion in a superconducting cavity coupled to artificial atoms and a microwave background

Juha Leppäkangas; Jan David Brehm; Ping Yang; Lingzhen Guo; Michael Marthaler; Alexey V. Ustinov; Martin Weides

doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.99.063804

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Resonance inversion in a superconducting cavity coupled to artificial atoms and a microwave background

Juha Leppäkangas, Jan David Brehm, Ping Yang, Lingzhen Guo, Michael Marthaler, Alexey V. Ustinov, Martin Weides

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevA.99.063804 · Physical Review A

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Abstract

We demonstrate how heating of an environment can invert the line shape of a driven cavity. We consider a superconducting coplanar cavity coupled to multiple artificial atoms. The measured cavity transmission is characterized by Fano-type resonances with a shape that is continuously tunable by bias current through nearby (magnetic flux) control lines. In particular the same dispersive shift of the microwave cavity can be observed as a peak or a dip. We find that this Fano-peak inversion is possible due to a tunable interference between a microwave transmission through a background with reactive and dissipative properties and through the cavity affected by bias-current induced heating. The background transmission occurs due to crosstalk between the control and transmission lines. We show how such background can be accounted for by Jaynes-Cummings type models via modified boundary conditions between the cavity and transmission lines. We find generally that whereas resonance positions determine system energy levels resonance shapes give information on system fluctuations and dissipation.