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Exploring the quantum critical behaviour in a driven Tavis–Cummings circuit

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  • M. Feng

    (State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

  • Y.P. Zhong

    (Zhejiang University)

  • T. Liu

    (State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    The School of Science, Southwest University of Science and Technology)

  • L.L. Yan

    (State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

  • W.L. Yang

    (State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

  • J. Twamley

    (ARC Centre for Engineered Quantum Systems, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales 2109, Australia)

  • H. Wang

    (Zhejiang University
    Synergetic Innovation Center of Quantum Information and Quantum Physics, University of Science and Technology of China)

Abstract

Quantum phase transitions play an important role in many-body systems and have been a research focus in conventional condensed-matter physics over the past few decades. Artificial atoms, such as superconducting qubits that can be individually manipulated, provide a new paradigm of realising and exploring quantum phase transitions by engineering an on-chip quantum simulator. Here we demonstrate experimentally the quantum critical behaviour in a highly controllable superconducting circuit, consisting of four qubits coupled to a common resonator mode. By off-resonantly driving the system to renormalize the critical spin-field coupling strength, we have observed a four-qubit nonequilibrium quantum phase transition in a dynamical manner; that is, we sweep the critical coupling strength over time and monitor the four-qubit scaled moments for a signature of a structural change of the system’s eigenstates. Our observation of the nonequilibrium quantum phase transition, which is in good agreement with the driven Tavis–Cummings theory under decoherence, offers new experimental approaches towards exploring quantum phase transition-related science, such as scaling behaviours, parity breaking and long-range quantum correlations.

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  • M. Feng & Y.P. Zhong & T. Liu & L.L. Yan & W.L. Yang & J. Twamley & H. Wang, 2015. "Exploring the quantum critical behaviour in a driven Tavis–Cummings circuit," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 6(1), pages 1-7, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:6:y:2015:i:1:d:10.1038_ncomms8111
    DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8111
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