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The integration of semiconductor Josephson junctions (JJs) in superconducting quantum circuits provides a versatile platform for hybrid qubits and offers a powerful way to probe exotic quasiparticle excitations. Recent proposals for using…

A new type of a superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) based on a single superconducting loop without Josephson junctions and with asymmetric link-up of current leads is proposed. This SQUID offers advantages in simplicity of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-19 A. A. Burlakov , V. L. Gurtovoi , A. I. Ilin , A. V. Nikulov , V. A. Tulin

We have developed and characterized a symmetry-protected superconducting qubit that offers simultaneous exponential suppression of energy decay from charge and flux noise, and dephasing from flux noise. The qubit consists of a Cooper-pair…

Under resonant irradiation, a quantum system can undergo coherent (Rabi) oscillations in time. We report evidence for such oscillations in a _continuously_ observed three-Josephson-junction flux qubit, coupled to a high-quality tank circuit…

We introduce a hybrid qubit based on a semiconductor nanowire with an epitaxially grown superconductor layer. Josephson energy of the transmon-like device ("gatemon") is controlled by an electrostatic gate that depletes carriers in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-22 T. W. Larsen , K. D. Petersson , F. Kuemmeth , T. S. Jespersen , P. Krogstrup , J. Nygard , C. M. Marcus

We investigate a granular aluminium quantum circuit with an anharmonicity of the order of its decoherence rate in a 3-dimensional microwave cavity. We perform single qubit-like manipulations such as Rabi oscillations and Ramsey fringes. Our…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-10 A. Théry , B. Neukelmance , B. Hue , W. Legrand , L. Jarjat , J. Craquelin , M. Villiers , A. Cottet , M. R. Delbecq , T. Kontos

A macroscopic spintronic qubit based on spin superfluidity and spin Hall phenomena is proposed. This magnetic quantum information processing device realizes the spin-supercurrent analog of the superconducting phase qubit and allows for full…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-12 So Takei , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak , Masoud Mohseni

We have observed coherent time evolution between two quantum states of a superconducting flux qubit comprising three Josephson junctions in a loop. The superposition of the two states carrying opposite macroscopic persistent currents is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 I. Chiorescu , Y. Nakamura , C. J. P. M. Harmans , J. E. Mooij

Conventional superconducting flux qubits require the application of a precisely tuned magnetic field to set the operation point at half a flux quantum through the qubit loop, which complicates the on-chip integration of this type of device.…

Conventional superconducting qubits have used Josephson junctions as an essential part to provide anharmonicity for well-separated energy-level spacings. However, because a superconducting ring without Josephson junctions has intrinsically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-01 Sang Jae Yun

A Josephson qubit is designed via the application of a tensile strain to a topological insulator surface sandwiched between two s-wave superconductors. The strain applied leads to a shift in the Dirac point without changing the pre-existing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 Colin Benjamin

We present the first experimental realization of a widely frequency tunable, non-degenerate three-wave mixing device for quantum signals at GHz frequency. It is based on a new superconducting building-block consisting of a ring of four…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-23 Nicolas Roch , Emmanuel Flurin , François Nguyen , Pascal Morfin , Philippe Campagne-Ibarcq , Michel H. Devoret , Benjamin Huard

Great interest revolves around the development of new strategies to efficiently store and manipulate quantum information in a robust and decoherence-free fashion. Several proposals have been put forward to encode information into qubits…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-04 Alessio Calzona , Matteo Carrega

We report the efficient coupling of a $50\,\Omega$ microwave circuit to a high impedance conductor. We use an impedance transformer consisting of a $\lambda/4$ co-planar resonator whose inner conductor contains an array of superconducting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-08 Carles Altimiras , Olivier Parlavecchio , Philippe Joyez , Denis Vion , Patrice Roche , Daniel Esteve , Fabien Portier

We introduce a setup which realises a tunable engineered environment for experiments in circuit quantum electrodynamics. We illustrate this concept with the specific example of a quantum bit, qubit, in a high-quality-factor cavity which is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-14 P. J. Jones , J. A. M. Huhtamäki , J. Salmilehto , K. Y. Tan , M. Möttönen

We propose a novel approach to generate, protect and control GKP qubits. It employs a microwave frequency comb parametrically modulating a Josephson circuit to enforce a dissipative dynamics of a high impedance circuit mode, autonomously…

The addition of nonlinearity to an harmonic resonator provides a route to complex dynamical behaviour of resonant modes, including coupling between them. We present a superconducting device that makes use of the nonlinearity of Josephson…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-10 G. Tancredi , G. Ithier , P. J. Meeson

We present a fabrication process for fully superconducting interconnects compatible with superconducting qubit technology. These interconnects allow for the 3D integration of quantum circuits without introducing lossy amorphous dielectrics.…

Superconducting parametric amplifiers play a crucial role in the preparation and readout of quantum states at microwave frequencies, enabling high-fidelity measurements of superconducting qubits. Most existing implementations of these…

Superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs) that incorporate two superconductor/insulator/superconductor (SIS) Josephson junctions in a closed loop form the core of some of the most sensitive detectors of magnetic and electric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 Taewan Noh , Andrew Kindseth , Venkat Chandrasekhar