Understanding degenerate ground states of a protected quantum circuit in the presence of disorder

Abstract

A recent theoretical proposal suggests that a simple circuit utilizing two superinductors may produce a qubit with ground state degeneracy [P. Brooks et al., Phys. Rev. A 87, 052306 (2013)]. We perform a full circuit analysis along with exact diagonalization of the circuit Hamiltonian to elucidate the nature of the spectrum and low-lying wave functions of this $0-\pi$ device. We show that the ground state degeneracy is robust to disorder in charge, flux and critical current as well as insensitive to modest variations in the circuit parameters. Our treatment is non-perturbative, provides access to excited states and matrix elements, and is immediately applicable also to intermediate parameter regimes of experimental interest.

9 pages, 8 figures

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