Tuesday, July 31, 2012

1207.6881 (Thomas Fink et al.)

Noise spectroscopy using correlations of single-shot qubit readout    [PDF]

Thomas Fink, Hendrik Bluhm
A better understanding of the noise causing qubit decoherence is crucial for improving qubit performance. The noise spectrum affecting the qubit may be extracted measuring dephasing under the application of pulse sequences but requires accurate qubit control and sufficiently long relaxation times, which are not always available. Here we describe an alternative method to extract the spectrum from correlations of single-shot measurement outcomes of successive free induction decay measurements. This method only requires qubit initialization and readout with a moderate fidelity and also allows independent tuning of both the overall sensitivity and the frequency region over which it is sensitive. Thus is is possible to maintain a good detection contrast over a very wide frequency range. We discuss using our method for measuring both 1/f noise and the fluctuation spectrum of the nuclear bath of GaAs spin qubits.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1207.6881

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