Protecting Qubits from Purcell Decay via Permanent Dipoles

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.22732v1
• Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:21:56 GMT
• Title: Protecting Qubits from Purcell Decay via Permanent Dipoles
• Abstract summary: We study a way to reduce this loss using a built-in permanent electric dipole.<n>We find an operating point where the cavity-mediated decay is strongly reduced while the longitudinal readout signal remains finite.
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• Abstract: Reading out a qubit often requires coupling it to a resonator, but that same resonator can also give the qubit an extra path to decay. Here, we study a way to reduce this loss using a built-in permanent electric dipole. The dipole shifts the cavity field in different directions for the qubit ground and excited states. This shift makes the relevant wave functions overlap less, which weakens the transverse qubit--cavity exchange that causes Purcell decay. In a simplified displaced rotating-wave model, this exchange vanishes at $η=\sqrt{2}$. In the full transverse model, this exact zero is lifted, but strong suppression remains at a larger dipole-induced displacement. Using dressed open-system decay rates, we find an operating point where the cavity-mediated decay is strongly reduced while the longitudinal readout signal remains finite. For the benchmark studied here, at fixed pointer separation, the normalized lifetime increases from $κT_1=11.1$ to $47.3$, and the estimated single-shot readout error drops from $0.21$ to $0.07$. These results show that permanent electric dipoles can provide an internal, channel-selective form of Purcell protection.

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