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High Harmonic Generation (HHG), which has been widely used in atomic gas, has recently expanded to solids as a means to study highly nonlinear electronic response in condensed matter and produce coherent high frequency radiation with new…

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Microwave transversal filters, which are implemented based on the transversal filter structure in digital signal processing, offer a high reconfigurability for achieving a variety of signal processing functions without changing hardware.…

Optics · Physics 2024-08-08 David J. Moss

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

Superconductor-normal material-superconductor (SNS) junctions are being integrated into microwave circuits for fundamental and applied research goals. The short junction limit is a common simplifying assumption for experiments with SNS…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-03-12 Valla Fatemi , Pavel D. Kurilovich , Anton R. Akhmerov , Bernard van Heck

In order to increase the accelerating gradient of Superconducting Radio Frequency (SRF) cavities, Magnesium Diboride (MgB2) opens up hope because of its high transition temperature and potential for low surface resistance in the high RF…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-04 Tamin Tai , Behnood G. Ghamsari , Steven M. Anlage , C. G. Zhuang , X. X. Xi

Nonlinear microwave circuits are key elements for many groundbreaking research directions and technologies, such as quantum computation and quantum sensing. The majority of microwave circuits with Josephson nonlinearities to date is based…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-26 Kevin Uhl , Daniel Hackenbeck , Janis Peter , Reinhold Kleiner , Dieter Koelle , Daniel Bothner

We develop theoretical methods to predict the effects of paramagnetic impurities on the microwave response of conventional spin-singlet superconductors. Our focus is on superconducting devices and resonators with low concentrations of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-12-24 Mehdi Zarea , J. A. Sauls

We consider a nonlinear microcavity separating a waveguide channel into two parts so as the coupling between them is possible only due to the resonant properties of the microcavity. We provide a rigorous derivation of the equations used in…

Optics · Physics 2011-09-06 Victor Grigoriev , Fabio Biancalana

We study the nonlinear optical response in a superconducting NbN thin film with strong terahertz (THz)wave. Besides the expected third harmonic generation, we observe a new transient oscillation which softensin frequency with temperature…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-03-30 Z. X. Wang , J. R. Xue , H. K. Shi , X. Q. Jia , T. Lin , L. Y. Shi , T. Dong , F. Wang , N. L. Wang

Van der Waals (vdW) superconductors - atomically thin crystalline materials that can be stacked into more complex heterostructures - have opened a promising avenue for superconducting electronics thanks to their properties that are…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-01-13 Angelo Di Bernardo , Elke Scheer

Flux flow properties for clean and dirty superconducting limits in strong pinning niobium films are studied. Measurements of electric field vs current density characteristics at high J values (J = 10^{6} A/cm^{2}) are successfully compared…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Christophe Peroz , Catherine Villard

We report investigations of molybdenum nitride (MoN) thin films with different thickness and disorder and with superconducting transition temperature 9.89 K $\ge{T_c}\ge$ 2.78 K. Using terahertz frequency-domain spectroscopy we explore the…

Amorphous thin film superconductors are promising alternatives for the development of superconducting radiation detectors, especially superconducting nanowire single photon detectors (SNSPDs) and superconducting microwire single photon…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-10-08 Shekhar Chandra Pandey Shilpam Sharma , M. K. Chattopadhyay

The low frequency complex impedance of a high resistivity 92 {\mu}{\Omega} cm and 100 nm thick TiN superconducting film has been measured via the transmission of several high sensitivity GHz microresonators, down to Tc/50. The temperature…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-12 P. Diener , H. Schellevis , J. J. A. Baselmans

Supercurrent field-effect transistors made from thin metallic films are a promising option for next-generation high-performance computation platforms. Despite extensive research, there is still no complete quantitative microscopic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-05-29 Alessio Zaccone , Giovanni A. Ummarino , Alessandro Braggio , Francesco Giazotto

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…

Circuits provide ideal platforms of topological phases and matter, yet the study of topological circuits in the strongly nonlinear regime, has been lacking. We propose and experimentally demonstrate strongly nonlinear topological phases and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-03 Jijie Tang , Fangyuan Ma , Feng Li , Honglian Guo , Di Zhou

The method consists in the monitoring of the temperature variation of a superconductor tape subjected to a trapezoidal current pulse. Simulations of the experiment were performed using the lumped capacitance model and also the finite…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Benoit des Ligneris Marcel Aubin Julian Cave

Millimeter-wave superconducting devices offer a platform for quantum experiments at temperatures above 1 K, and new avenues for studying light-matter interactions in the strong coupling regime. Using the intrinsic nonlinearity associated…

Striking features have been found in the nonlinear microwave (8 GHz) surface impedance $Z_s=R_s + jX_s$ of high-quality YBaCuO thin films with comparable low power characteristics [$R_{res}\sim 35--60 \mu\Omega$ and $\lambda_L(15 K)\sim…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 A. P. Kharel , Anton V. Velichko , J. R. Powell , A. Porch , M. J. Lancaster , R. G. Humphreys