The microwave performance of amorphous dielectric materials at very low temperatures and very low excitation strengths displays significant excess loss. Here, we present the loss tangents of some common amorphous and crystalline dielectrics, measured at low temperatures (T < 100 mK) with near single-photon excitation energies, using both coplanar waveguide (CPW) and lumped LC resonators. The loss can be understood using a two-level state (TLS) defect model. A circuit analysis of the half-wavelength resonators we used is outlined, and the energy dissipation of such a resonator on a multilayered dielectric substrate is considered theoretically.
@article{arxiv.0802.2404,
title = {Microwave Dielectric Loss at Single Photon Energies and milliKelvin Temperatures},
author = {Aaron D. O'Connell and M. Ansmann and R. C. Bialczak and M. Hofheinz and N. Katz and Erik Lucero and C. McKenney and M. Neeley and H. Wang and E. M. Weig and A. N. Cleland and J. M. Martinis},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0802.2404},
year = {2009}
}
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4 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Applied Physics Letters