Numerical evaluation of the real-time photon-instanton cross-section in a superconducting circuit

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2410.23062v1
• Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2024 14:39:13 GMT
• Title: Numerical evaluation of the real-time photon-instanton cross-section in a superconducting circuit
• Authors: Amir Burshtein, David Shuliutsky, Roman Kuzmin, Vladimir E. Manucharyan, Moshe Goldstein,
• Abstract summary: An experiment in superconducting circuits provided first evidence for direct dynamical signatures of instantons. This framework should be useful in many other quantum field theoretical contexts.
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• Abstract: Instantons, semi-classical trajectories of quantum tunneling in imaginary time, have long been used to study thermodynamic and transport properties in a myriad of condensed matter and high energy systems. A recent experiment in superconducting circuits [Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 197701, (2021)] provided first evidence for direct dynamical signatures of instantons (phase slips), manifested by order-unity inelastic decay probabilities for photons with which they interact, motivating the development of a scattering theory of instantons [Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 137701, (2021)]. While this framework successfully predicted the measured inelastic decay rates of the photons for several experimental devices, it is valid only if the tunneling time of the instantons is much shorter than the relaxation time of the environment in which they are embedded, and requires a closed analytical expression for the instanton trajectory. Here, we amend these issues by incorporating numerical methods that lift some of the previously applied approximations. Our results agree with the experimental measurements, also for devices with shorter relaxation times, without fitting parameters. This framework should be useful in many other quantum field theoretical contexts.

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