Short-time decoherence of Josephson charge qubit nonlinearly coupling with its environment

At first, we generally investigate the short-time decoherence of a qubit nonlinearly coupling with a bath. The measure of the decoherence is chosen as the maximum norm of the deviation density operator. Then we concretely investigate the Josephson charge qubit (JCQ) model. It is shown that at the temperature T ∼ 30mK, the loss of fidelity (due to decoherence) of the JCQ is bigger than the DiVincenzo low decoherence criterion. The decoherence will decrease with the decrease of the experimental temperature. When the temperature decreases to T ∼ 0.3mK the DiVincenzo low decoherence criterion can be satisfied. PACS numbers: 03.65.Ta, 03.65.Yz, 85.25.Cp