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Compared to traditional semiconductor control electronics (TSCE) located at room temperature, cryogenic single flux quantum (SFQ) electronics can provide qubit measurement and control alternatives that address critical issues related to…

The microwave-driven dynamics of the superconducting phase difference across a Josephson junction is now widely employed in superconducting qubits and quantum circuits. With the typical energy level separation frequency of several GHz,…

Superconducting diodes, characterized by nonreciprocal supercurrent transport, offer transformative opportunities for ultra-low-power circuits. However, achieving reliable operation at temperatures above liquid nitrogen remains a major…

Superconducting qubits are one of the most promising candidates to implement quantum computers. The superiority of superconducting quantum computers over any classical device in simulating random but well-determined quantum circuits has…

Quantum mechanics can strongly influence the noise properties of mesoscopic devices. To probe this effect we have measured the current fluctuations at high-frequency (5-90 GHz) using a superconductor-insulator-superconductor tunnel junction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Deblock , E. Onac , L. Gurevich , L. P. Kouwenhoven

We have designed and experimentally implemented a circuit of inductively-coupled superconducting charge qubits, where a Josephson junction is used as an inductance, and the coupling between the qubits is controlled by an applied magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 T. Yamamoto , M. Watanabe , J. Q. You , Yu. A. Pashkin , O. Astafiev , Y. Nakamura , F. Nori , J. S. Tsai

Josephson junction (JJ) chains combine the coherence of superconductivity with the controllability of microwave-frequency circuits, making them a powerful platform for circuit quantum electrodynamics. In this work we consider a long JJ…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-06 Lucia Vigliotti , Andrew P. Higginbotham , Maksym Serbyn

Josephson junctions and the quantum phase-slip (QPS) junctions are two quantum circuit elements introduced by superconducting electronics to create various hybrid circuits. Josephson junctions bring the developments of superconducting…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-11-30 Yongliang Wang

We investigate the nonequilibrium current response in diffusive superconductor-normal-metal-superconductor junctions subjected to a low-frequency AC voltage. Using a kinetic description based on the adiabatic motion of Andreev bound states,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-12-02 Tony Liu , Alex Levchenko

Low-capacitance Josephson junction arrays in the parameter range where single charges can be controlled are suggested as possible physical realizations of the elements which have been considered in the context of quantum computers. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 Alexander Shnirman , Gerd Schoen , Ziv Hermon

The dynamics of overdamped Josephson junctions under varying microwave-driving conditions have been studied through numerical simulations using the resistively-shunted junction (RSJ) model, with a focus on primary voltage metrology…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-08-19 Paolo Durandetto

A quantum mechanical analysis of the Josephson phase escape in the presence of both dc and ac bias currents is presented. We find that the potential barrier for the escape of the phase is effectively suppressed as the resonant condition…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 M. V. Fistul , A. Wallraff , A. V. Ustinov

With a large portfolio of elemental quantum components, superconducting quantum circuits have contributed to dramatic advances in microwave quantum optics. Of these elements, quantum-limited parametric amplifiers have proven to be essential…

We analyze the coherent dynamics of a fluxonium device (Manucharyan et al 2009 Science 326 113) formed by a superconducting ring of Josephson junctions in which strong quantum phase fluctuations are localized exclusively on a single weak…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 G. Rastelli , M. Vanevic , W. Belzig

Within the framework of the microscopic model of tunneling, we modelled the behavior of the Josephson junction shunted by the Superconductor-Insulator-Normal metal (SIN) tunnel junction. We found that the electromagnetic impedance of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 A. B. Zorin , E. M. Tolkacheva , M. I. Khabipov , F. -I. Buchholz , J. Niemeyer

We study quantum phase-slip (QPS) processes in a superconducting ring containing N Josephson junctions and threaded by an external static magnetic flux. In a such system, a QPS consists of a quantum tunneling event connecting two distinct…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-03-19 G. Rastelli , I. M. Pop , F. W. J. Hekking

Superconducting transmon qubits based on hybrid superconductor-semiconductor Josephson junctions (gatemons) offer gate tunability, but their relaxation times remain well below those of state-of-the-art transmons, and the origin of this…

Quantum dots attached to BCS superconducting leads exhibit a $0-\pi$ impurity quantum phase transition, which can be experimentally controlled either by the gate voltage or by the superconducting phase difference. For the pertinent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-27 Alžběta Kadlecová , Martin Žonda , Vladislav Pokorný , Tomáš Novotný

Quantum bits (qubits) are at the heart of quantum information processing schemes. Currently, solid-state qubits, and in particular the superconducting ones, seem to satisfy the requirements for being the building blocks of viable quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-19 Z. Ivic , N. Lazarides , G. P. Tsironis

Frequency combs represent exceptionally precise measurement tools due to the coherence of their spectral lines. While optical frequency comb sources constitute a well-established technology, superconducting circuits provide a relatively…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-12-12 Angelo Greco , Xavier Ballu , Francesco Giazotto , Alessandro Crippa