Black-box superconducting circuit quantization

  1. Simon E. Nigg,
  2. Hanhee Paik,
  3. Brian Vlastakis,
  4. Gerhard Kirchmair,
  5. Shyam Shankar,
  6. Luigi Frunzio,
  7. Michel Devoret,
  8. Robert Schoelkopf,
  9. and Steven Girvin
We present a semi-classical method for determining the effective low-energy quantum Hamiltonian of weakly anharmonic superconducting circuits containing mesoscopic Josephson junctions coupled to electromagnetic environments made of an arbitrary combination of distributed and lumped elements. A convenient basis, capturing the multi-mode physics, is given by the quantized eigenmodes of the linearized circuit and is fully determined by a classical linear response function. The method is used to calculate numerically the low-energy spectrum of a 3D-transmon system, and quantitative agreement with measurements is found.

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