Decoherence of Josephson charge qubit in non-Markovian environment

Abstract

In this paper we investigate the decoherence of Josephson charge qubit (JCQ) by using a time-nonlocal (TNL) dynamical method. Three kinds of environmental models, described with Ohmic, super-Ohmic, and sub-Ohmic spectral density functions are considered. It is shown that the TNL method can effectively include the non-Markovian effects in the dynamical solutions. In particular, it is shown that the sub-Ohmic environment has longer correlation time than the Ohmic and super-Ohmic ones. And the Markovian and non-Markovian dynamics are obviously different for the qubit in sub-Ohmic environment.