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Microwave Circulator (2D): Protecting a Qubit from Amplifier Back-Action

2D top-down schematic of a 3-port microwave circulator in a qubit readout chain: toggle it in/out, drive amplifier back-action noise, and watch coherence and fidelity respond live.

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This 2D companion keeps the same three-port routing logic as the 3D circulator lab but lays it out as a flat schematic: qubit, circulator, amplifier and cold termination sit on a signal-flow diagram, with a probe pulse always running qubit → amplifier and an amplifier-noise pulse routed either to the termination (circulator in) or straight back to the qubit (bypassed). A noise-rate slider and a qubit-relaxation slider let you dial in how often back-action fires and how fast coherence recovers between hits, so the coherence and fidelity readouts respond to something you're actually driving rather than a fixed script.

⚙ Under the hood

2D top-down circulator schematic with adjustable noise rate and qubit relaxation rate, live coherence/fidelity readouts, and absorbed-vs-leaked noise counters.

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2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install

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