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Josephson Parametric Amplifiers (JPA) are nonlinear devices that are used for quantum sensing and qubit readout in the microwave regime. While JPAs regularly operate in the quantum limit, their gain saturates for very small (few photons)…

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A directional superconducting parametric amplifier in the GHz frequency range is designed and analyzed, suitable for low-power read-out of microwave kinetic inductance detectors employed in astrophysics and when combined with a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-06-20 M. P. Westig , T. M. Klapwijk

High-gain amplifiers of electromagnetic signals operating near the quantum limit are crucial for quantum information systems and ultrasensitive quantum measurements. However, the existing techniques have a limited gain-bandwidth product and…

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Josephson parametric amplifiers have become a critical tool in superconducting device physics due to their high gain and quantum-limited noise. Traveling wave parametric amplifiers (TWPAs) promise similar noise performance while allowing…

We demonstrate a lumped-element Josephson parametric amplifier, using a single-ended design that includes an on-chip, high-bandwidth flux bias line. The amplifier can be pumped into its region of parametric gain through either the input…

Josephson-junction based parametric amplifiers have become a ubiquitous component in superconducting quantum machines. Although parametric amplifiers regularly achieve near-quantum limited performance, they have many limitations, including…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-06 T. -C. Chien , O. Lanes , C. Liu , X. Cao , P. Lu , S. Motz , G. Liu , D. Pekker , M. Hatridge

We present measurements of 1/f frequency noise in both linear and Josephson-junction-embedded superconducting aluminum resonators in the low power, low temperature regime - typical operating conditions for superconducting qubits. The…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-03 K. W. Murch , S. J. Weber , E. M. Levenson-Falk , R. Vijay , I. Siddiqi

Quantum-limited Josephson parametric amplifiers play a pivotal role in advancing the field of circuit quantum electrodynamics by enabling the fast and high-fidelity measurement of weak microwave signals. Therefore, it is necessary to…

We have developed and measured a high-gain quantum-limited microwave parametric amplifier based on a superconducting lumped LC resonator with the inductor L including an array of 8 superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs). This…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-22 X. Zhou , V. Schmitt , P. Bertet , D. Vion , W. Wustmann , V. Shumeiko , D. Esteve

Quantum-limited parametric amplifiers are essential components for many quantum technologies operating in the microwave domain. Achieving both high gain and broad bandwidth, however, remains challenging due to trade-offs between gain and…

Josephson traveling-wave parametric amplifiers (JTWPAs) are wideband, ultralow-noise amplifiers used to enable the readout of superconducting qubits. While individual JTWPAs have achieved high performance, behavior between devices is…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-08-13 Samuel T. Elkin , Michael Haider , Thomas E. Roth

We designed and fabricated an impedance matched Josephson junction parametric amplifier (JPA) working in the flux-pump mode for the broadband amplification of microwave signals. We developed a very simple fabrication method suitable for a…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Rui Yang , Hui Deng

Operating superconducting qubits at elevated temperatures offers increased cooling power and thus system scalability, but requires suppression of thermal photons to preserve coherence and readout fidelity. This motivates migration to higher…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-22 Z. Hao , J. Cochran , Y. -C. Chang , H. M. Cole , S. Shankar

Due to their unique properties as lossless, nonlinear circuit elements, Josephson junctions lie at the heart of superconducting quantum information processing. Previously, we demonstrated a two-layer, submicrometer-scale overlap junction…

High gain and large bandwidth of traveling-wave parametric amplifier exploiting the nonlinearity of Josephson Junctions can be achieved by fulfilling the so-called phase-matching condition. This condition is usually addressed by placing…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-08-12 Emil Rizvanov , Samuel Kern , Pavol Neilinger , Miroslav Grajcar

Josephson Parametric Amplifiers (JPAs) are key components in quantum information processing due to their ability to amplify weak quantum signals with near-quantum-limited noise performance. This is essential for applications such as qubit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-18 Ahmad Salmanogli , Hesam Zandi , Mahdi Esmaeili , Abolfazl Eskandari , Mohsen Akbari

Low-noise microwave amplifiers are crucial for detecting weak signals in fields such as quantum technology and radio astronomy. However, designing an ideal amplifier is challenging, as it must cover a wide frequency range, add minimal…

Parametric amplifiers have become a workhorse in superconducting quantum computing, however research and development of these devices has been hampered by inconsistent, and sometimes misleading noise performance characterization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-25 M. Malnou , T. F. Q. Larson , J. D. Teufel , F. Lecocq , J. Aumentado

Circulators and directional amplifiers are crucial non-reciprocal signal routing and processing components involved in microwave readout chains for a variety of applications. They are particularly important in the field of superconducting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-11 K. M. Sliwa , M. Hatridge , A. Narla , S. Shankar , L. Frunzio , R. J. Schoelkopf , M. H. Devoret

Superconducting parametric amplifiers are crucial components in microwave quantum circuits for enabling quantum-limited signal readout. The best-performing such amplifiers are often based on Josephson junctions, which however are sensitive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-17 Mingrui Xu , Risheng Cheng , Yufeng Wu , Gangqiang Liu , Hong X. Tang