Violation of Cluster Property in Superconducting Qubit

TL;DR

This paper investigates the violation of the cluster property in superconducting qubits, showing that local operators can alter stable eigenstates and proposing cavity QED methods to observe this phenomenon.

Contribution

It identifies the violation of the cluster property in superconducting qubits and proposes a cavity QED-based experimental approach to observe this effect.

Findings

Local operators can change stable eigenstates in superconducting qubits.

The cluster property is violated in these systems.

A cavity QED method is proposed for experimental observation.

Abstract

Spontaneous symmetry breaking is well known to be a macroscopic phenomenon in quantum physics in many body systems. The essential features of this phenomenon are the energy degeneracy and the existence of the local operator that can modify the degenerate states. Due to these properties the lowest energy state is not stable. In order to obtain the stable ground state we introduce the explicitly breaking interaction, by which it is difficult for the local operator to modify the ground state. In the superconducting qubit there exists the stable eigenstate with the definite charge number. We point out that in this system, the local operator can change this state to another state. As results the cluster property violates, which means that the events in the far distance are not irrelevant. In this paper we examine the cluster property in the superconducting qubit. Then we propose a method by cavity quantum electrodynamics with two cavities in order to observe the violation.