Topologically protected qubits as minimal Josephson junction arrays with non-trivial boundary conditions: a proposal

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETA.2008.10.005zbMATH Open1227.81100arXiv0810.2920OpenAlexW3021695329MaRDI QIDQ646930FDOQ646930

Authors: Gerardo Cristofano, Adele Naddeo, G. Niccoli, Vincenzo Marotta 

Publication date: 30 November 2011

Published in: Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Recently a one-dimensional closed ladder of Josephson junctions has been studied (G. Cristofano et al., Phys. Lett. A 372 (2008) 2464) within a twisted conformal field theory (CFT) approach (G. Cristofano et al., Mod. Phys. Lett. A 15 (2000) 1679; Nucl. Phys. B 641 (2002) 547) and shown to develop the phenomenon of flux fractionalization (G. Cristofano et al., Eur. Phys. J. B 49 (2006) 83). That led us to predict the emergence of a topological order in such a system (G. Cristofano et al., JSTAT (2005) P03006). In this letter we analyze the ground states and the topological properties of fully frustrated Josephson junction arrays (JJA) arranged in a Corbino disk geometry for a variety of boundary conditions. In particular minimal configurations of fully frustrated JJA are considered and shown to exhibit the properties needed in order to build up a solid state qubit, protected from decoherence. The stability and transformation properties of the ground states of the JJA under adiabatic magnetic flux changes are analyzed in detail in order to provide a tool for the manipulation of the proposed qubit.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0810.2920

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zbMATH Keywords

qubittopological orderfully frustrated Josephson junction arrays

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum information, communication, networks (quantum-theoretic aspects) (81P45) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Statistical mechanics of superconductors (82D55)

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