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Magnetic-free traveling-wave nonreciprocal superconducting microwave components

Quantum Physics 2021-06-08 v1 Applied Physics Optics

Abstract

We propose a design to realize integrated broadband nonreciprocal microwave isolators and circulators using superconducting circuit elements without any magnetic materials. To obtain a broadband response, we develop a waveguide-based design by temporal modulations. The corresponding compact traveling-wave structure is implemented with integrated superconducting composite right-/left-handed transmission lines. The calculations show that the bandwidth of 580 MHz can be realized over a nonreciprocal isolation of 20 dB in reflections. Such on-chip isolators and circulators are useful for cryogenic integrated microwave connections and measurements, such as protecting qubits from the amplified reflected signal in multiplexed readout.

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@article{arxiv.2106.02928,
  title  = {Magnetic-free traveling-wave nonreciprocal superconducting microwave components},
  author = {Dengke Zhang and Jaw-Shen Tsai},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.02928},
  year   = {2021}
}

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18 pages, 12 figures