Dephasing of a qubit coupled with a point-contact detector

Abstract

The dephasing of a qubit coupled with a point-contact detector is theoretically studied. We calculate the time evolution of the reduced density matrix of qubit by using the perturbation expansion. We show that the dephasing rate is proportional to the temperature at zero bias-voltage, while it is proportional to the bias-voltage when the bias-voltage is large. We also evaluate the dephasing rate by using the real time renormalization group method and show that the higher order processes of the particle-hole excitation enhances dephasing of qubit.