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Project started in the Fall of 2014, focusing on the operation of two or more charge qubits which are capacitively coupled.
==General Formulation==
[[Image:Detuning graph.png|thumb|Energy levels of the 2 qubit system as a function of both detunings.|300px]]
For a single charge qubit, the Hamiltonian is
\begin{equation}
H_i = \left( \begin{matrix}
\epsilon_i/2 & \Delta_i \\
\Delta_i & -\epsilon_i/2
\end{matrix}\right)
\end{equation}
We will refer to $\epsilon_i$ and $\Delta_i$ as the \emph{detuning} and \emph{tunnel coupling} of qubit $i$, respectively.
We can further write down the full Hamiltonian explicitly:
\begin{equation}
H = \left( \begin{matrix}
\frac{1}{2}(\epsilon_1+\epsilon_2) + g & \Delta_2 & \Delta_1 & 0 \\
\Delta_2 & \frac{1}{2}(\epsilon_1-\epsilon_2) - g & 0 & \Delta_1 \\
\Delta_1 & 0 & \frac{1}{2}(-\epsilon_1+\epsilon_2) - g & \Delta_2 \\
0 & \Delta_1 & \Delta_2 & \frac{1}{2}(-\epsilon_1-\epsilon_2) + g
\end{matrix}\right)
\end{equation}
==Sweet Spots==
A major issue with charge qubits is that they are very susceptible to ''charge noise'', which occurs when charge fluctuations outside the system induce undesired shifts in the parameters of the Hamiltonian. The goal of a sweet spot is to find a point in the parameter space where the energy levels are as invariant to the shifts as possible.
===Invariance to Detuning Noise===
The most dominant noise source is due to the shifts in the detuning. It is believed that the only point at which the first order dependence on the detunings disappears is at \epsilon_1 = \epsilon_2 = 0.
<gallery widths=400px mode="nolines">
Image:01-10 gap.png|Gap between 01 and 10 states
Image:00-10 gap.png |Gap between 00 and 10 states
</gallery>
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