Probing a Two-Level System Bath via the Frequency Shift of an Off-Resonantly Driven Cavity

Autor: Emmanuel Flurin, Pierre-François Cohadon, José Palomo, Thibaut Jacqmin, Edouard Ivanov, M. Rosticher, Sheon Chua, Tristan Briant, Thibault Capelle, Samuel Deléglise, Antoine Heidmann
Přispěvatelé: Laboratoire Kastler Brossel (LKB (Jussieu)), Fédération de recherche du Département de physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure - ENS Paris (FRDPENS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Physical Review Applied
Physical Review Applied, American Physical Society, 2020, 13 (3), ⟨10.1103/PhysRevApplied.13.034022⟩
ISSN: 2331-7019
Popis: Although the main loss channel of planar microwave superconducting resonators has been identified to be related to an external coupling to a two-level system (TLS) bath, the behavior of such resonators in the presence of an off-resonant pump has yet to be fully understood. Alongside the well-known power-dependent damping, we observe a frequency shift with a conspicuous maximum for intermediate pump power that is attributed to a spectrally asymmetric saturation of the TLSs. We derive a semiclassical model that describes both of these effects quantitatively. The model is validated experimentally by performing a two-tone spectroscopy of several resonators fabricated on various substrates. Together with the provided analytic formulas, the technique proposed here is a simple yet powerful tool to unambiguously identify the presence of a limiting TLS bath, and to characterize various properties thereof, such as its average dephasing rate.
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