Probing Environmental Spin Polarization with Superconducting Flux Qubits

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Probing Environmental Spin Polarization with Superconducting Flux Qubits
المؤلفون: Lanting, T., Amin, M. H., Baron, C., Babcock, M., Boschee, J., Boixo, S., Smelyanskiy, V. N., Foygel, M., Petukhov, A. G.
سنة النشر: 2020
المجموعة: Condensed Matter
Quantum Physics
مصطلحات موضوعية: Quantum Physics, Condensed Matter - Superconductivity
الوصف: We present measurements of the dynamics of a polarized magnetic environment coupled to the flux degree of freedom of rf-SQUID flux qubits. The qubits are used as both sources of polarizing field and detectors of the environmental polarization. We probe dynamics at timescales from 5 $\mu$s to 5 ms and at temperatures between 12.5 and 22 mK. The measured polarization versus temperature provides strong evidence for a phase transition at a temperature of $5.7\pm 0.3$ mK. Furthermore, the environmental polarization grows initially as $\sqrt{t}$, consistent with spin diffusion dynamics. However, spin diffusion model deviates from data at long timescales, suggesting that a different phenomenon is responsible for the low-frequency behavior. A simple $1/f$ model can fit the data at all time scales but it requires empirical low- and high-frequency cutoffs. We argue that these results are consistent with an environment comprised of random clusters of spins, with fast spin diffusion dynamics within the clusters and slow fluctuations of the total moments of the clusters.
Comment: 12 pages, 4 figures
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2003.14244
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2003.14244
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv