2006/09/16 by Alicki, Robert
#FOS: Physical sciences #Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0609122
The recent experimental evidence for entangled states of two Josephson junction qubits is briefly discussed. It is argued that the interpretation of the experimental data strongly depends on the assumed theoretical model. Namely, the qubit states are supposed to be the lowest lying eigenstates of a certain effective Hamiltonian and hence automatically orthogonal, while the simple analysis within a more fundamental many-particle model shows that those states should strongly overlap. This makes the standard interpretation of the measurement procedure questionable.