Extremely large Lamb shift in a deep-strongly coupled circuit QED system with a multimode resonator

Abstract

We report experimental and theoretical results on the extremely large Lamb shift in a multimode circuit quantum electrodynamics (QED) system in the deep-strong coupling (DSC) regime, where the qubit-resonator coupling strength is comparable to or larger than the qubit and resonator frequencies. The system comprises a superconducting flux qubit (FQ) and a quarter-wavelength coplanar waveguide resonator ($\lambda /4$ CPWR) that are coupled inductively through a shared edge that contains a Josephson junction to achieve the DSC regime. Spectroscopy is performed around the frequency of the fundamental mode of the CPWR, and the spectrum is fitted by the single-mode quantum Rabi Hamiltonian to obtain the system parameters. Since the qubit is also coupled to a large number of higher modes in the resonator, the single-mode fitting does not provide the bare qubit energy but a value that incorporates the renormalization from all the other modes. We derive theoretical formulas for the Lamb shift in the multimode resonator system. As shown in previous studies, there is a cut-off frequency ${\omega }_{\mathrm{cutoff}}$ for the coupling between the FQ and the modes in the CPWR, where the coupling grows as $\sqrt{{\omega }_n}$ for ${\omega }_n/{\omega }_{\mathrm{cutoff}}\ll 1$ and decreases as $1/\sqrt{{\omega }_n}$ for ${\omega }_n/{\omega }_{\mathrm{cutoff}}\gg 1$. Here ${\omega }_n$ is the frequency of the $n$th mode. The cut-off effect occurs because the qubit acts as an obstacle for the current in the resonator, which suppresses the current of the modes above ${\omega }_{\mathrm{cutoff}}$ at the location of the qubit and results in a reduced coupling strength. Using our observed spectrum and theoretical formulas, we estimate that the Lamb shift from the fundamental mode is 82.3\% and the total Lamb shift from all the modes is 96.5\%.

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