Nonstationary dephasing of two-level systems
Josef Schriefl, Maxime Clusel, David Carpentier, Pascal Degiovanni · Europhysics Letters (EPL) · 2004
We investigate the influence of nonstationary 1/ f μ 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.