Observation of Vanishing Charge Dispersion of a Nearly Open Superconducting Island
Arno Bargerbos, Willemijn Uilhoorn, Chung-Kai Yang, Peter Krogstrup, Leo P. Kouwenhoven, G. de Lange, Bernard van Heck, Angela Kou
Abstract
Isolation from the environment determines the extent to which charge is confined on an island, which manifests as Coulomb oscillations, such as charge dispersion. We investigate the charge dispersion of a nanowire transmon hosting a quantum dot in the junction. We observe rapid suppression of the charge dispersion with increasing junction transparency, consistent with the predicted scaling law, which incorporates two branches of the Josephson potential. We find improved qubit coherence times at the point of highest suppression, suggesting novel approaches for building charge-insensitive qubits.
Topics & Concepts
TransmonCharge qubitCondensed matter physicsPhysicsCharge (physics)QubitCoulombDispersion (optics)Josephson effectSuperconductivityCoherence (philosophical gambling strategy)QuantumPhase qubitQuantum mechanicsElectronQuantum and electron transport phenomenaPhysics of Superconductivity and MagnetismQuantum Information and Cryptography