Circuits made at cryogenic temperatures including Josephson junctions easily overcome the requirements to exhibit quantum behaviour. Happily in the realm of superconductivity, we have a dissipationless highly non-linear element: the Josephson junction. Not only that, but the system needs to be extremely non-linear (otherwise you just have a frictionless classical system!). This is why to make quantum circuits we need to make them out of dissipationless superconductors in dilution refrigerators. The final comment might be that when dissipation is introduced (either classically or quantumly), the equation gains terms that scale much like the “quantum corrections”.
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The Schrödinger equation becomes the classical Liouville equations plus corrections proportional to powers of ! It so happens that the corrections to the Liouville equation are not only proportional to but also proportional to the non-linearity of the Hamiltonian. On the other hand, if we bring the quantum operators down to phase-space, then the parallel between the two theories is transparent. If what I just said is not obvious, I would say that it is because there is a language gap between the quantum world (usually formulated in Hilbert space) and the classical world (formulated in phase-space). It is somehow illuminating to see that if the dissipative terms dominate over the non-linear terms in the Hamiltonian the quantum correction will never see the light of day. The short answer would be that a quantum circuit is one in which the “non-linearity” overcomes, for a while at least, the dissipation. It so happens that in most situations found in real life the quantum effects are completely washed away, and what is left is what we know as classical physics. I would say that deep down, all circuits - together with the rest of nature - are quantum.
To begin, can you explain to us the difference between making a classical circuit versus a quantum circuit? Here, we are all strongly driving our systems and that requires a robust cryogenic environment to keep the low temperatures as qubits like the Kerr-cat are born, live and die." "In Qlab, we currently have five working cryostats, each housing different research projects.
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