title: Tunneling spectroscopy of two-level systems inside a Josephson junction.
abstract: We consider a two-level system (TLS) with energy level separation plankvOmega0 inside a Josephson junction. The junction is shunted by a resistor R and is voltage V biased. If the TLS modulates the Josephson energy and/or is optically active, it is Rabi driven by the Josephson oscillations in the running phase regime near the resonance 2eV=plankvOmega0. The Rabi oscillations, in turn, translate into oscillations of current and voltage that can be detected in noise measurements. This effect provides an option to fully characterize the TLS inside Josephson junction and to find the TLS's contribution to the decoherence when the junction is used as a qubit.
authors.affiliation: Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Martin
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Bulaevskii
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Shnirman