Quantum sensors for microscopic tunneling systems

A Bilmes, S Volosheniuk, JD Brehm, AV Ustinov… - npj Quantum …, 2021 - nature.com
The anomalous low-temperature properties of glasses arise from intrinsic excitable entities,
so-called tunneling Two-Level-Systems (TLS), whose microscopic nature has been baffling …

Experimentally revealing anomalously large dipoles in the dielectric of a quantum circuit

L Yu, S Matityahu, YJ Rosen, CC Hung, A Maksymov… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Quantum two-level systems (TLSs) intrinsic to glasses induce decoherence in many modern
quantum devices, such as superconducting qubits. Although the low-temperature physics of …

Observation of directly interacting coherent two-level systems in an amorphous material

J Lisenfeld, GJ Grabovskij, C Müller, JH Cole… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Parasitic two-level tunnelling systems originating from structural material defects affect the
functionality of various microfabricated devices by acting as a source of noise. In particular …

Polaronic model of two-level systems in amorphous solids

K Agarwal, I Martin, MD Lukin, E Demler - Physical Review B—Condensed …, 2013 - APS
While two-level systems (TLSs) are ubiqitous in solid state systems, microscopic
understanding of their nature remains an outstanding problem. Conflicting …

[HTML][HTML] Transmission-line resonators for the study of individual two-level tunneling systems

JD Brehm, A Bilmes, G Weiss, AV Ustinov… - Applied Physics …, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
Parasitic two-level tunneling systems (TLS) emerge in amorphous dielectrics and constitute
a serious nuisance for various microfabricated devices, where they act as a source of noise …

Interacting tunneling model for two-level systems in amorphous materials and its predictions for their dephasing and noise in superconducting microresonators

L Faoro, LB Ioffe - Physical Review B, 2015 - APS
We use a tunneling model for two-level systems in insulators that takes into account the
interaction between them and a slow power-law dependence of their density of states. We …

Progress toward detection of individual TLS in nanomechanical resonators

R Pedurand, I Golokolenov, M Sillanpää… - Journal of Low …, 2024 - Springer
The low-temperature properties of amorphous solids are usually explained in terms of
atomic-scale tunneling two level systems (TLS). For almost 20 years, individual TLS have …

Strain tuning of individual atomic tunneling systems detected by a superconducting qubit

GJ Grabovskij, T Peichl, J Lisenfeld, G Weiss… - Science, 2012 - science.org
In structurally disordered solids, some atoms or small groups of atoms are able to quantum
mechanically tunnel between two nearly equivalent sites. These atomic tunneling systems …

Nonuniversality and strongly interacting two-level systems in glasses at low temperatures

M Schechter, P Nalbach, AL Burin - New Journal of Physics, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent experimental results showing atypical nonlinear absorption and marked deviations
from well known universality in the low temperature acoustic and dielectric losses in …

Decoherence spectroscopy with individual two-level tunneling defects

J Lisenfeld, A Bilmes, S Matityahu, S Zanker… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Recent progress with microfabricated quantum devices has revealed that an ubiquitous
source of noise originates in tunneling material defects that give rise to a sparse bath of …