Dynamical Casimir effect in dissipative superconducting circuit system

Abstract

We investigate the possibility of observing in integrated solid-state systems the dynamical Casimir effect, in which photons are created out of vacuum. We use a transmission line resonator on a superconducting chip as the microwave cavity and modulate its properties by coupling it to carefully designed Josephson devices. We evaluate the effect of main decoherence sources and show that our design offers a promising system for experimentally demonstrating the dynamical Casimir effect. Moreover, we also study the squeezing properties of the created photon field and how they depend on the dissipation.