Sensitivity and back-action in charge qubit measurements by a strongly coupled single-electron transistor
| dc.creator | Oxtoby, Neil P. | |
| dc.creator | Wiseman, H. M. | |
| dc.creator | Sun, He-Bi | |
| dc.date | 2006-01-03 | |
| dc.date | 2006-04-28 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T12:34:57Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T12:34:57Z | |
| dc.description | We consider charge-qubit monitoring (continuous-in-time weak measurement) by a single-electron transistor (SET) operating in the sequential-tunneling regime. We show that commonly used master equations for this regime are not of the Lindblad form that is necessary and sufficient for guaranteeing valid physical states. In this paper we derive a Lindblad-form master equation and a corresponding quantum trajectory model for continuous measurement of the charge qubit by a SET. Our approach requires that the SET-qubit coupling be strong compared to the SET tunnelling rates. We present an analysis of the quality of the qubit measurement in this model (sensitivity versus back-action). Typically, the strong coupling when the SET island is occupied causes back-action on the qubit beyond the quantum back-action necessary for its sensitivity, and hence the conditioned qubit state is mixed. However, in one strongly coupled, asymmetric regime, the SET can approach the limit of an ideal detector with an almost pure conditioned state. We also quantify the quality of the SET using more traditional concepts such as the measurement time and decoherence time, which we have generalized so as to treat the strongly responding regime. | |
| dc.description | About 11 pages, 6 figures. Changes in v2: we made general improvements to the manuscript including, but not limited to(!), the removal of one reference, and modification of the footnotes | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0601035 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0601035 | |
| dc.identifier | Physical Review B 74, 045328 (2006) | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.74.045328 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/217625 | |
| dc.subject | Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics | |
| dc.subject | Quantum Physics | |
| dc.title | Sensitivity and back-action in charge qubit measurements by a strongly coupled single-electron transistor | |
| dc.type | text |