Correlated many-body noise and emergent $1/f$ behavior in an anharmonic fluctuator model

Abstract

Fluctuating electric fields emanating from surfaces are a primary source of decoherence in trapped ion qubits. Here, we show that superradiant phonon-induced excitation exchange between adatoms can lead to a reduction of electric field noise at low temperatures. We derive an exact mapping between the noise spectrum of $N$ fluctuators with $M$ vibrational levels to $\left(\genfrac{}{}{0ex}{}{N+M-1}{N}\right)$-1 two-level dipoles. We provide conditions for which the ubiquitous $1/f$ noise can emerge, even though the system is composed of only a single type of fluctuator, thus suggesting a new mechanism for the phenomenon.

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