In a driven system, a sequence of Landau–Zener transitions occur, and they may interfere with each other. We present experimental evidence of quantum interference effects in a superconducting charge qubit, a Cooper-pair box, where the LZ tunneling occurs at the charge degeneracy. By employing weak capacitive monitoring, we observe interference between consecutive LZ tunneling events.
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Sillanpää, M., Lehtinen, T., Paila, A. et al. Landau–Zener Interferometry in a Cooper-Pair Box. J Low Temp Phys 146, 253–262 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10909-006-9262-0
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