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Planar Josephson junctions (JJs) based on InSb nanoflags have recently emerged as an intriguing platform in superconducting electronics. This letter presents the fabrication and investigation of superconducting quantum interference devices…

As experimental quantum information processing (QIP) rapidly advances, an emerging challenge is to design a scalable architecture that combines various quantum elements into a complex device without compromising their performance. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-15 T. Brecht , W. Pfaff , C. Wang , Y. Chu , L. Frunzio , M. H. Devoret , R. J. Schoelkopf

A nanometer-sized superconducting quantum interference device (nanoSQUID) is fabricated on the apex of a sharp quartz tip and integrated into a scanning SQUID microscope. A simple self-aligned fabrication method results in nanoSQUIDs with…

We present a novel approach to implement compressive sensing in laser scanning microscopes (LSM), specifically in image scanning microscopy (ISM), using a single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) array detector. Our method addresses two…

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The recently developed quantum circuit cutting technique greatly extends the capabilities of current noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) hardware. However, it introduces substantial overhead in both classical postprocessing and quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-05 Po-Hung Chen , Dah-Wei Chiou , Bo-Hung Chen , Jie-Hong Roland Jiang

We analyze the design of a potential replacement technology for the commercial ferrite circulators that are ubiquitous in contemporary quantum superconducting microwave experiments. The lossless, lumped element design is capable of being…

We report on a scanned superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) microscope operating in a cryogen-free cryostat, with the capability of up to forty RF connections with 20 GHz bandwidth to a device under test. The system utilizes…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-10 Ian W. Haygood , Bochao Xu , John Biesecker , Michael L. Schneider

Superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs) are used for applications ranging from sensitive magnetometers to low-temperature electronics and quantum computation. We introduce a planar nano SQUID that was made with a single…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-04-17 Itamar Holzman , Yachin Ivry

So far, performance prediction and optimization of microwave SQUID multiplexers has largely been based on simple approximate analytical models and experimental results. This is caused by the complexity of the underlying physics and the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-01-31 Constantin Schuster , Mathias Wegner , Sebastian Kempf

Superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs) are among the most sensitive sensors, offering high precision through their well-defined flux-voltage characteristics. Building on this sensitivity, we designed, fabricated, and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-10-17 Beyza Zeynep Ucpinar , Sasan Razmkhah , Mustafa Altay Karamuftuoglu , Ali Bozbey

Light-matter interaction in optomechanical systems is the foundation for ultra-sensitive detection schemes [1,2] as well as the generation of phononic and photonic quantum states [3-10]. Electromechanical systems realize this optomechanical…

Superconducting qubits with in-situ tunable properties are important for constructing a quantum computer. Qubit tunability, however, often comes at the expense of increased noise sensitivity. Here, we propose a flux-tunable superconducting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-09 Eyob A. Sete , Matthew Reagor , Nicolas Didier , Chad T. Rigetti

SQUID arrays are promising candidates for low profile antennas and low noise amplifier applications. We present the integrated circuit designs and results of DC and RF measurements of the wideband serial arrays based on integration of…

We present a readout method for superconducting flux qubits. The qubit quantum flux state can be measured by determining the Josephson inductance of an inductively coupled DC superconducting quantum interference device (DC-SQUID). We…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-06-06 A. Lupascu , C. J. P. M. Harmans , J. E. Mooij

Scanning superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) microscopy is a magnetic imaging technique combining high-field sensitivity with nanometer-scale spatial resolution. State-of-the-art SQUID-on-tip probes are now playing an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-03 M. Wyss , K. Bagani , D. Jetter , E. Marchiori , A. Vervelaki , B. Gross , J. Ridderbos , S. Gliga , C. Schönenberger , M. Poggio

A superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID), functioning as a nonlinear response device, typically requires the incorporation of a flux-locked loop (FLL) circuit to facilitate linear amplification of the current signal transmitted…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-02 Nan Li , Xiang-xiang Ren , Le-peng Li , Meng-jie Song , Hao-yu Li , Shi-bo Shu , Ya-qiong Li , Yong-jie Zhang , Xu-fang Li , Yu-dong Gu , Cong-zhan Liu , Hai-feng Li , He Gao , Zheng-wei Li

We propose a scheme to implement variable coupling between two flux qubits using the screening current response of a dc Superconducting QUantum Interference Device (SQUID). The coupling strength is adjusted by the current bias applied to…

Engineering artificial systems by twisting and stacking van der Waals materials has proven to be an excellent platform for exploring emergent quantum phenomena that can be significantly different from the constituents. Recent advances in…

InductEx is a software tool used for the analysis of integrated circuit designs and extraction of design parameters by way of numerical electromagnetic field solving. This tool was originally developed with Rapid Single Flux Quantum (RSFQ)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-15 Sean Crowe , Benjamin Taylor , Nicholas Ferrante , Brad Liu , Susan Berggren

We develop a two-dimensional (2D) Superconducting Quantum Interference Filter (SQIF) array based on recently introduced high-linearity tri-junction bi-SQUIDs. Our bi-SQUID SQIF array design is based on a tight integration of individual bi-…