Long-lived memory effects in the defect bath of superconducting qubits

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.10087v1
• Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2026 18:01:15 GMT
• Title: Long-lived memory effects in the defect bath of superconducting qubits
• Abstract summary: We reveal long-lived memory effects in the defect bath of a superconducting transmon qubit through electric-field tuning of two-level system defects coupled to the qubit.<n>We observe several hysteretic effects in the TLS environment with memory of the order of seconds, far beyond the lifetimes of individual TLS defects.<n>This information may be used to improve qubit-stabilisation and quantum error correction protocols.
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• Abstract: We reveal long-lived memory effects in the defect bath of a superconducting transmon qubit through electric-field tuning of two-level system (TLS) defects coupled to the qubit. Using a fast TLS mapping method we observe several hysteretic effects in the TLS environment with memory timescales of the order of seconds, far beyond the lifetimes of individual TLS defects. The observations can be explained by TLS coupling to electric field-polarised charge fluctuators in the defect bath. Our method enables detailed mapping of the dynamics of the bath's coupled microscopic degrees of freedom and the associated memory effects which can introduce temporally correlated noise. This information may be used to improve qubit-stabilisation and quantum error correction protocols.

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