Hybrid superconducting--spin systems offer the potential to combine highly coherent atomic quantum systems with the scalability of superconducting circuits. To fully exploit this potential requires a high quality-factor microwave resonator, tunable in frequency and able to operate at magnetic fields optimal for the spin system. Such magnetic fields typically rule out conventional Al-based Josephson junction devices that have previously been used for tunable high-Q microwave resonators. The larger critical field of niobium (Nb) allows microwave resonators with large field resilience to be fabricated. Here, we demonstrate how constriction-type weak links, patterned in parallel into the central conductor of a Nb coplanar resonator using a neon focused ion beam (FIB), can be used to implement a frequency-tunable resonator. We study transmission through two such devices and show how they realise high quality factor, tunable, field resilient devices which hold promise for future applications coupling to spin systems.
@article{arxiv.1807.00582,
title = {Tunable Nb superconducting resonators based upon a Ne-FIB-fabricated constriction nanoSQUID},
author = {Oscar W. Kennedy and Jonathan Burnett and Jonathan C. Fenton and Nicolas G. N. Constantino and Paul A. Warburton and John J. L. Morton and Eva Dupont-Ferrier},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.00582},
year = {2019}
}