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Squid Rings As Devices for Controlling Quantum Entanglement and Information
We model a SQUID ring coupled to one or two electromagnetic field oscillator modes, each component being treated quantum mechanically. We show that the external flux on the SQUID ring can be used to control th...
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Chapter
Manipulating Quantum Transitions in A Persistent Current Qubit
This paper discusses two methods for generating quantum transitions between energy eigenstates in a model persistent current qubit. The alternatives are compared and their advantages and disadvantages are cons...
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The Non-Perturbative Quantum Behaviour of a Squid Ring in a Strong Electromagnetic Field
We investigate the use of a time-dependent electromagnetic field to stimulate quantum transitions in a macroscopic superconducting circuit. Using two different models for the electromagnetic field, we show tha...
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Solutions of the Time-Dependent Schrödinger Equation for a Two-State System
The statistical properties of a single quantum object and an ensemble of independent such objects are considered in detail for two-level systems. Computer simulations of dynamic zero-point quantum fluctuations...
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Broken Gauge Symmetry in Macroscopic Quantum Circuits
In this paper, we discuss the macroscopic quantum behavior of simple superconducting circuits. Starting from a Lagrangian for electromagnetic field with broken gauge symmetry, we construct a quantum circuit mo...
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Quantum Electrodynamics in Superconducting Circuits
We discuss the appearence of quantum electrodynamic effects in superconducting circuits. We concentrate on one simple system; a thick superconducting ring containing a single Josephson weak link. We construct ...
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Article
The quantum to classical crossover for a weak link capacitor
We consider a model weak link, an ultra-small capacitor subject to tunnelling, to ohmic dissipation and fed with an external displacement current. The framework we employ is the new approach of quantum state d...
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On weak links fed with irreversible currents
We briefly discuss the usual time-reversible descriptions for displacement- and real-current-fed small-capacitance weak links. Many real laboratory current sources deliver charge in an intrinsically irreversib...
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Chapter
Observation of Quantum Jumps in Squid Rings
In this paper we describe an experimental technique which we have used to probe the low lying energy levels of a quantum mechanical SQUID ring and to observe transitions between these levels.
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Microscopic views of simple macroscopic quantum behaviour
For simple-model microscopic systems, we discuss whether (or not) potentially observable macroscopic quantum behaviour can arise, making explicit two criteria which must be satisfied for this to be possible. W...
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Comments on small capacitors
We discuss the concept of an ultrasmall capacitor and the experimental probing of such objects.
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Flux Mode and Charge Mode Regimes in Superconducting Weak Link Circuits
In a series of papers [1–4] we have discussed the quantum mechanical description of superconducting weak link circuits in terms of the (integrated) electromagnetic field variables φ, the magnetic flux and Q, t...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Tunnel Current Modifications due to Finite Tunneling Times
We examine the effects of a finite tunnelling time (independent of its exact definition) on tunnel currents through insulating barriers. In particular we show how the Josephson tunnelling between superconducto...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Introducing Dissipation in the Schrödinger Picture
We discuss various methods of introducing dissipation to the Schrodinger picture, in the light of the de Broglie-Bohm quantum potential viewpoint. This favours non-linear equations, and Kostin’s Schrödinger-La...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Analysis of Non-Linear Behaviour in the Radio Frequency SQUID Magnetometer
Using a model rf-SQUID magnetometer; taken to be a linear classical circuit coupled reactively to a macroscopic quantum circuit, in the adiabatic limit, we investigate the effect of quantum mechanical transiti...
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Macroscopic Quantum Objects and their Interaction with External Environments
To gain some appreciation of why any quantum phenomena on the macroscopic scale should be regarded as potentially important to developments in quantum mechanics we have to look back to the origins of the subje...
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Adding dissipation to the Schrödinger equation from the quantum-potential viewpoint
We discuss methods of adding dissipation to the Schrödinger equation in light of the quantum-potential interpretation of quantum mechanics. This favors nonlinear equations in general and Kostin's Schrödinger-L...
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The response of a superconducting weak-link ring to external adiabatic noise
We discuss the response of a superconducting weak-link ring to externally applied adiabatic noise and show that this can be used as a probe of the low-lying energy eigenstates of the ring. We compare the obser...
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Coherent quantum oscillation trajectories
We discuss coherent oscillations in the quantum potential view of quantum mechanics, giving examples for both a superposition of “position” states, and a superposition of “momentum” states.
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Coupled quantum object dynamics
We discuss the dynamical behaviour of coupled quantum objects. This leads to a novel method of observing macroscopic quantum behaviour.
