Effects of Temperature and Magnetic Field on the Coherence Time of a RbCl Parabolic Quantum Dot Qubit

Employing the Pekar variational method, quantum statistics theory and the Fermi golden rule, the temperature and magnetic field effects on the qubit in rubidium chloride (RbCl) parabolic quantum dots (PQDs) are investigated. We then obtain the eigenenergies and corresponding eigenfunctions of ground and first-excited states coupled strongly to an electron to bulk longitudinal optical phonons in a RbCl PQD with applied magnetic field. A two-level system of PQDs may be regarded as a single qubit. The spontaneous emission of phonons causes the qubit decoherence. The numerical results indicate that the coherence time decreases with elevating temperature. The coherence increases the effective confinement length, whereas there is a decrease of the magnetic field's cyclotron frequency.