Microwave-Induced Cooling of a Superconducting Qubit

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We demonstrated microwave-induced cooling in a superconducting flux qubit. The thermal population in the first-excited state of the qubit is driven to a higher-excited state by way of a sideband transition. Subsequent relaxation into the ground state results in cooling. Effective temperatures as low as Teff~ 3 millikelvin are achieved for bath temperatures Tbath = 30 - 400 millikelvin, a cooling factor between 10 and 100. This demonstration provides an analog to optical cooling of trapped ions and atoms and is generalizable to other solid-state quantum systems. Active cooling of qubits, applied to quantum information science, provides a means for qubit-state preparation with improved fidelity and for suppressing decoherence in multi-qubit systems.
Comments Article plus Supplementary Online Material. 19 pages, 6 figures

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Superconductivity

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http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/158674

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https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0702190
 http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0702190
 Science 314, 1589 (2006)
 doi:10.1126/science.1134008

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