Scattering and Schmid-Bulgadaev Transition in Qubits Based on Josephson Junction Chains
Abstract
A Josephson junction subject to an ohmic dissipative environment undergoes a zero-temperature quantum phase transition called Schmid-Bulgadaev transition form an insulating state to a superconducting state upon increasing the impedance of the environment above the resistance quantum. Superconducting qubits based on Josephson junction chains represent a system where it is possible to dynamically explore both sides of this transition by probing the scattering of individual plasma modes of the junction chain on a SQUID at the boundary which was achieved in recent experiments. Here, we provide a theoretical analysis of the scattering in the system paying special attention to the non-perturbative superconducting regime. We find that in this regime, a specific diagrammatic resummation must be performed in order to correctly account for fluctuation renormalization of the SQUID's potential. We find analytic expressions for the modes' frequency shifts and quality factors which together provide a full description of scattering. We argue that the non-perturbative nature of the superconducting phase manifests itself through a power-law dependence of the frequency shifts on the SQUID flux and through non-monotonous dependence of the quality factors on the mode frequency. Our predictions may be readily verified in modern low-temperature experiments.
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BibTeX
@misc{krasin2026scattering,
title = {{Scattering and Schmid-Bulgadaev Transition in Qubits Based on Josephson Junction Chains}},
author = {Sviatoslav D. Krasin and Alexey Radkevich and Emil Rizvanov and Andrew G. Semenov},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.33814},
eprint = {2610.33814},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.33814},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Scattering and Schmid-Bulgadaev Transition in Qubits Based on Josephson Junction Chains
AU - Sviatoslav D. Krasin
AU - Alexey Radkevich
AU - Emil Rizvanov
AU - Andrew G. Semenov
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/24
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.33814
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.33814
AB - A Josephson junction subject to an ohmic dissipative environment undergoes a zero-temperature quantum phase transition called Schmid-Bulgadaev transition form an insulating state to a superconducting state upon increasing the impedance of the environment above the resistance quantum. Superconducting qubits based on Josephson junction chains represent a system where it is possible to dynamically explore both sides of this transition by probing the scattering of individual plasma modes of the junction chain on a SQUID at the boundary which was achieved in recent experiments. Here, we provide a theoretical analysis of the scattering in the system paying special attention to the non-perturbative superconducting regime. We find that in this regime, a specific diagrammatic resummation must be performed in order to correctly account for fluctuation renormalization of the SQUID's potential. We find analytic expressions for the modes' frequency shifts and quality factors which together provide a full description of scattering. We argue that the non-perturbative nature of the superconducting phase manifests itself through a power-law dependence of the frequency shifts on the SQUID flux and through non-monotonous dependence of the quality factors on the mode frequency. Our predictions may be readily verified in modern low-temperature experiments.
ER -