Evolution of $1/f$ Flux Noise in Superconducting Qubits with Weak Magnetic Fields

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2301.07804v1
• Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2023 22:26:08 GMT
• Title: Evolution of $1/f$ Flux Noise in Superconducting Qubits with Weak Magnetic Fields
• Authors: David A. Rower, Lamia Ateshian, Lauren H. Li, Max Hays, Dolev Bluvstein, Leon Ding, Bharath Kannan, Aziza Almanakly, Jochen Braum\"uller, David K. Kim, Alexander Melville, Bethany M. Niedzielski, Mollie E. Schwartz, Jonilyn L. Yoder, Terry P. Orlando, Joel I-Jan Wang, Simon Gustavsson, Jeffrey A. Grover, Kyle Serniak, Riccardo Comin, William D. Oliver
• Abstract summary: The origin of $1/f$ magnetic flux noise in superconducting circuits has remained an open question for several decades. Recent progress in superconducting devices for quantum information has highlighted the need to mitigate sources of qubit decoherence. We apply weak in-plane magnetic fields to a capacitively-shunted flux qubit and study the flux-noise-limited qubit dephasing.
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• Abstract: The microscopic origin of $1/f$ magnetic flux noise in superconducting circuits has remained an open question for several decades despite extensive experimental and theoretical investigation. Recent progress in superconducting devices for quantum information has highlighted the need to mitigate sources of qubit decoherence, driving a renewed interest in understanding the underlying noise mechanism(s). Though a consensus has emerged attributing flux noise to surface spins, their identity and interaction mechanisms remain unclear, prompting further study. Here we apply weak in-plane magnetic fields to a capacitively-shunted flux qubit (where the Zeeman splitting of surface spins lies below the device temperature) and study the flux-noise-limited qubit dephasing, revealing previously unexplored trends that may shed light on the dynamics behind the emergent $1/f$ noise. Notably, we observe an enhancement (suppression) of the spin-echo (Ramsey) pure dephasing time in fields up to $B=100~\text{G}$. With direct noise spectroscopy, we further observe a transition from a $1/f$ to approximately Lorentzian frequency dependence below 10 Hz and a reduction of the noise above 1 MHz with increasing magnetic field. We suggest that these trends are qualitatively consistent with an increase of spin cluster sizes with magnetic field. These results should help to inform a complete microscopic theory of $1/f$ flux noise in superconducting circuits.

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