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Quantum mechanical effects at the macroscopic level were first explored in Josephson junction-based superconducting circuits in the 1980's. In the last twenty years, the emergence of quantum information science has intensified research…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-26 Alexandre Blais , Arne L. Grimsmo , S. M. Girvin , Andreas Wallraff

Microwave circulators play an important role in quantum technology based on superconducting circuits. The conventional circulator design, which employs ferrite materials, is bulky and involves strong magnetic fields, rendering it unsuitable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-28 Dat Thanh Le , Clemens Muller , Rohit Navarathna , Arkady Fedorov , T. M. Stace

We report development and measurement of a micro-fabricated compact high-temperature superconducting (HTS) metamaterial atom operating at a frequency as low as $\sim$ 53MHz. The device is a planar spiral resonator patterned out of a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-01-09 Behnood G. Ghamsari , John Abrahams , Steven M. Anlage

In the past 20 years, impressive progress has been made both experimentally and theoretically in superconducting quantum circuits, which provide a platform for manipulating microwave photons. This emerging field of superconducting quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-07 Xiu Gu , Anton Frisk Kockum , Adam Miranowicz , Yu-xi Liu , Franco Nori

We introduce and experimentally characterize a superconducting single-sideband modulator compatible with cryogenic microwave circuits, and propose its use for frequency domain multiplexing of superconducting qubit readout. The monolithic…

Superconducting quantum devices provide excellent connectivity and controllability while semiconductor spin qubits stand out with their long-lasting quantum coherence, fast control, and potential for miniaturization and scaling. In the last…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Mónica Benito , Guido Burkard

Superconducting qubits are a leading platform for scalable quantum computing and quantum error correction. One feature of this platform is the ability to perform projective measurements orders of magnitude more quickly than qubit…

Photodetectors based on nano-structured superconducting thin films are currently some of the most sensitive quantum sensors and are key enabling technologies in such broad areas as quantum information, quantum computation and…

Hybrid quantum circuits combine two or more physical systems, with the goal of harnessing the advantages and strengths of the different systems in order to better explore new phenomena and potentially bring about novel quantum technologies.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Ze-Liang Xiang , Sahel Ashhab , J. Q. You , Franco Nori

Quantum communications technologies require a network of quantum processors connected with low loss and low noise communication channels capable of distributing entangled states. Superconducting microwave qubits operating in cryogenic…

We have fabricated arrays of High-T$_c$ Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices (SQUIDs) with randomly distributed loop sizes as sensitive antennas for Radio-Frequency (RF) waves. These sub-wavelength size devices known as…

The in-plane motion of an electron on helium can couple to superconducting microwave resonators via electrical dipole coupling, offering a robust and rapid readout scheme. In previous efforts, microwave resonator designs for electrons on…

We experimentally studied the switching off processes in the double-resonator coupler superconducting quantum circuit. In both frequency and time-domain, we observed the variation of qubit-qubit effective coupling by tuning the frequency…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-26 Hui Wang , Rui Wang , Daichi Sugiyama , Chih-Yao Shih , Ching-Yeh Chen , Hiroto Mukai , Hang Xue , J. S. Tsai

We review the use of hybrid thin films composed of superconductors and ferromagnets for creating non-reciprocal electronic components and self-biased detectors of electromagnetic radiation. We begin by introducing the theory behind these…

We demonstrate electron cooling in silicon using platinum silicide as a superconductor contact to selectively remove the highest energy electrons. The superconducting critical temperature of bulk PtSi is reduced from around 1 K to 0.79 K…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 M J Prest , J S Richardson-Bullock , Q T Zhao , J T Muhonen , D Gunnarsson , M Prunnila , V A Shah , T E Whall , E H C Parker , D R Leadley

We discuss the design and implementation of thin film superconducting coplanar waveguide micro- resonators for pulsed ESR experiments. The performance of the resonators with P doped Si epilayer samples is compared to waveguide resonators…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 H. Malissa , D. I. Schuster , A. M. Tyryshkin , A. A. Houck , S. A. Lyon

Porous silicon, obtained by electrochemical etching, has been used as a substrate for the growth of nanoperforated Nb thin films. The films, deposited by UHV magnetron sputtering on the porous Si substrates, inherited their structure made…

We present a flip-chip architecture for an array of coupled superconducting qubits, in which circuit components reside inside individual microwave enclosures. In contrast to other flip-chip approaches, the qubit chips in our architecture…

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…

Superconducting metamaterials are a promising resource for quantum information science. In the context of circuit QED, they provide a means to engineer on-chip, novel dispersion relations and a band structure that could ultimately be…