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Variational tight-binding method for simulating large superconducting circuits

D. K. Weiss, Wade DeGottardi, Jens Koch, D. G. Ferguson

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.3.033244 · Physical Review Research

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Abstract

We generalize solid-state tight-binding techniques for the spectral analysis of large superconducting circuits. We find that tight-binding states can be better suited for approximating the low-energy excitations than charge basis states, as illustrated for the interesting example of the current-mirror circuit. The use of tight binding can dramatically lower the Hilbert-space dimension required for convergence to the true spectrum, and allows for the accurate simulation of larger circuits that are out of reach of charge basis diagonalization.

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