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Superfluid–Mott-insulator transition in superconducting circuits with weak anharmonicity

Year: 2017
Type: article
Abstract: We investigate theoretically the ground-state property of a two-dimensional array of superconducting circuits including the on-site superconducting qubits (SQs) with weak anharmonicity. In particular, we analyze the influence of this anharmonicity on the Mott-insulator to superfluid quantum phase transition. The complete ground-state phase diagrams are presented under the mean-field approximation. Interestingly, the anharmonicity of SQs affects the Mott lobes enormously, and the single excitation Mott lobe disappears when the anharmonicity becomes zero. Our results can be used to guide the implementations of quantum simulations using the superconducting circuits, which have nice integrating and flexibility.
Authors: Li-Li Zheng, Ke-Min Li, Xin-You Lü, Ying Wu
Language: English
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2767650048
FWCI: 0.649
Cites: 44
Cited by: 7
Related to: 10