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Nonstationary dephasing of two level systems

Josef Schriefl, Maxime Clusel, David Carpentier, Pascal Degiovanni

cond-mat.mes-hallarXiv:cond-mat/0403750

Abstract

We investigate the influence of nonstationary 1/fmu noise, produced by interacting defects, on a quantum two-level system. Adopting a simple phenomenological model for this noise we describe exactly the corresponding dephasing in various regimes. The nonstationarity and pronounced non-Gaussian features of this noise induce new anomalous dephasing scenarii. Beyond a history-dependent critical coupling strength the dephasing time exhibits a strong dependence on the age of the noise and the decay of coherence is not exponential.

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