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Squeezing of the electromagnetic vacuum is an essential metrological technique used to reduce quantum noise in applications spanning gravitational wave detection, biological microscopy, and quantum information science. In superconducting…

Scanning Superconducting Quantum Interference Device (SQUID) Susceptometry simultaneously images the local magnetic fields and susceptibilities above a sample with sub-micron spatial resolution. Further development of this technique…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-01-01 Samantha I Davis , John R. Kirtley , Kathryn A. Moler

This work investigates the behavior of a spin-exchange relaxation-free (SERF) magnetometer integrated into the feedback branch of a closed-loop control circuit, designed to actively suppress noise from a current source. In this…

Low-frequency magnetic fields carry vital information for neuroscience, navigation, and Earth science. However, they are generally weak, making it challenging to measure them with compact, room-temperature magnetometers. To overcome this…

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…

We present a measurement protocol for a flux qubit coupled to a dc-Superconducting QUantum Interference Device (SQUID), representative of any two-state system with a controllable coupling to an harmonic oscillator quadrature, which consists…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-08-18 I. Serban , B. L. T. Plourde , F. K. Wilhelm

We have studied the possibility of a single-shot non-demolition measurement of a superconducting qubit using a microstrip SQUID amplifier (MSA). The Johnson noise generated by all resistors in the MSA is taken into consideration. We show…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-12-05 G. P. Berman , D. I. Kamenev , D. Kinion , V. I. Tsifrinovich

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

Nano-fabricated superconducting quantum interference device (nano-SQUID) is a direct and sensitive flux probe useful for magnetic imaging of quantum materials and mesoscopic devices. Enabled by functionalities of superconductive integrated…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-05-23 B. K. Xiang , S. Y. Wang , Y. F. Wang , J. J. Zhu , H. T. Xu , Y. H. Wang

We describe a circuit model for a flux-driven SQUID. This is useful for developing insight into how these devices perform as active elements in parametric amplifiers. The key concept is that frequency mixing in a flux-pumped SQUID allows…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-16 K. M. Sundqvist , S. Kintaş , M. Simoen , P. Krantz , M. Sandberg , C. M. Wilson , P. Delsing

We describe an experimental study of spin-projection noise in a high sensitivity alkali-metal magnetometer. We demonstrate a four-fold improvement in the measurement bandwidth of the magnetometer using continuous quantum non-demolition…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-01-18 V. Shah , G. Vasilakis , M. V. Romalis

We have developed a Josephson parametric amplifier, comprising a superconducting coplanar waveguide resonator terminated by a dc SQUID (superconducting quantum interference device). An external field (the pump, $\sim 20$ GHz) modulates the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2008-08-12 T. Yamamoto , K. Inomata , M. Watanabe , K. Matsuba , T. Miyazaki , W. D. Oliver , Y. Nakamura , J. S. Tsai

We demonstrate a superconducting inductive technique to measure the displacement of a micromechanical resonator. In our scheme, a type I superconducting microsphere is attached to the free end of a microcantilever and approached to the loop…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-08 Andrea Vinante

A superconducting quantum interference device with differential output or "DSQUID" was proposed earlier for operation in the presence of large common-mode signals. The DSQUID is the differential connection of two identical SQUIDs. Here we…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-03-12 I. I. Soloviev , V. I. Ruzhickiy , N. V. Klenov , S. V. Bakurskiy , M. Yu. Kupriyanov

The harmonic oscillator is one of the most widely used model systems in physics: an indispensable theoretical tool in a variety of fields. It is well known that otherwise linear oscillators can attain novel and nonlinear features through…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-14 Christin Rhén , Andreas Isacsson

Superconducting parametric amplifiers have great promise for quantum-limited readout of superconducting qubits and detectors. Until recently, most superconducting parametric amplifiers had been based on resonant structures, limiting their…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-01-13 Saptarshi Chaudhuri , Jiansong Gao , Kent Irwin

An ongoing process of miniaturization of spintronics and magnetic-films-based devices, as well as a growing necessity for basic material research place stringent requirements for sensitive and accurate magnetometric measurements of minute…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-07-08 Katarzyna Gas , Maciej Sawicki

We report measurements on two superconducting flux qubits coupled to a readout Superconducting QUantum Interference Device (SQUID). Two on-chip flux bias lines allow independent flux control of any two of the three elements, as illustrated…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 B. L. T. Plourde , T. L. Robertson , P. A. Reichardt , T. Hime , S. Linzen , C. -E. Wu , John Clarke

We report the results of a detailed numerical analysis of a real resonant spherical gravitational wave antenna operating with six resonant two-mode capacitive transducers read out by superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUID)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Luciano Gottardi

Cavity quantum electrodynamics (QED) with in-situ tunable interactions is important for developing novel systems for quantum simulation and computing. The ability to tune the dispersive shifts of a cavity QED system provides more…