Crossover from weak- to strong-coupling regime in dispersive circuit QED
I. Serban, E. Solano, F. K. Wilhelm · Europhysics Letters (EPL) · 2007
We study the decoherence of a superconducting qubit due to the dispersive coupling to a damped harmonic oscillator. We go beyond the weak qubit-oscillator coupling, which we associate with a phase Purcell effect , and enter into a strong coupling regime, with qualitatively different behavior of the dephasing rate. We identify and give a physicaly intuitive discussion of both decoherence mechanisms. Our results can be applied, with small adaptations, to a large variety of other physical systems, e.g. trapped ions and cavity QED, boosting theoretical and experimental decoherence studies.