Real-Time Instantons in Complex-Driven Qubits

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08820v1
• Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2025 21:11:08 GMT
• Title: Real-Time Instantons in Complex-Driven Qubits
• Authors: Samuel Alperin,
• Abstract summary: We show that instead of Rabi oscillations, a nonunitary coherent driving leads to a unidirectional instanton solution.<n>The timescale of this tunneling is shown to be inversely proportional to the effective resonant coupling.<n>We show how the drive can be engineered to place the strong attractor at any arbitrary point on the Bloch sphere.
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• Abstract: We consider the dynamics of the quantum Rabi model driven parametrically by a periodic modulation of a complex coupling. We show both analytically and numerically that instead of Rabi oscillations, this nonunitary coherent driving leads to a unidirectional instanton solution which mediates the rapid and deterministic one-way tunneling of any initial coherent state to the ground state, making the ground state a strong attractor in the quantum dynamics of the qubit. The timescale of this tunneling is shown to be inversely proportional to the effective resonant coupling, allowing for exceptionally fast, deterministic, and high-fidelity qubit reset through a purely coherent, PT-symmetric drive--without coupling to external dissipative baths, lossy resonators, or employing measurement-based feedback. Finally, we show how the drive can be engineered to place the strong attractor at any arbitrary point on the Bloch sphere.

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