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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 develop a concept of the traveling-wave Josephson parametric amplifier exploiting quadratic nonlinearity of a serial array of one-junction SQUIDs embedded in a superconducting transmission line. The external magnetic flux applied to the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-09-20 A. B. Zorin

Quantum-limited microwave parametric amplifiers are genuine key pillars for rising quantum technologies and in general for applications that rely on the successful readout of weak microwave signals by adding only the minimum amount of noise…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-23 Martina Esposito , Arpit Ranadive , Luca Planat , Nicolas Roch

Josephson junction parametric amplifiers are playing a crucial role in the readout chain in superconducting quantum information experiments. However, their integration with current 3D cavity implementations poses the problem of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-23 A. Narla , K. M. Sliwa , M. Hatridge , S. Shankar , L. Frunzio , R. J. Schoelkopf , M. H. Devoret

Josephson parametric amplifiers (JPAs) approaching quantum-limited noise performance have been instrumental in enabling high fidelity readout of superconducting qubits and, recently, semiconductor quantum dots (QDs). We propose that the…

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

Quantum-limited amplifiers, such as Josephson Traveling Wave Parametric Amplifiers (JTWPAs) and Josephson Parametric Amplifiers (JPAs), are essential components in quantum computers. They amplify low-power microwave signals from qubits at…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-27 Emre Küçükyılmaz , Mehmet Ünlü , Ali Bozbey

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 a quantum mechanical model for a four-wave mixing Josephson traveling-wave parametric amplifier including substrate losses and associated thermal fluctuations. Under the assumption of a strong undepleted classical pump tone, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-17 Yongjie Yuan , Michael Haider , Johannes A. Russer , Peter Russer , Christian Jirauschek

Recent progress in quantum computing and the development of novel detector technologies for astrophysics is driving the need for high-gain, broadband, and quantum-limited amplifiers. We present a purely traveling-wave parametric amplifier…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-27 Nikita Klimovich , Peter Day , Shibo Shu , Byeong Ho Eom , Henry Leduc , Andrew Beyer

We review recent advances in the research on quantum parametric phenomena in superconducting circuits with Josephson junctions. We discuss physical processes in parametrically driven tunable cavity and outline theoretical foundations for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-16 Waltraut Wustmann , Vitaly Shumeiko

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 resonator parametric amplifiers achieve ultra-low-noise amplification through the nonlinear kinetic inductance of thin-film superconductors. One of the main challenges to the operation of these devices is the separation of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-10-29 Songyuan Zhao , Stafford Withington , Christopher Niall Thomas

Parametric amplification is essential for quantum measurement, enabling the amplification of weak microwave signals with minimal added noise. While Josephson-junction-based amplifiers have become standard in superconducting quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-04 Danial Davoudi , Abdul Mohamed , Shabir Barzanjeh

This short and opinionated review starts with a concept of quantum signals at microwave frequencies and focuses on the principle of linear parametric amplification. The amplification process arises from the dispersive nonlinearity of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-11 Michel Devoret , Ananda Roy

We have developed a concept for a traveling-wave parametric amplifier driven by a magnetic flux wave. The circuit consists of a serial array of symmetric dc SQUIDs coupled inductively to a separate superconducting LC transmission line…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-11-01 A. B. Zorin

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…

Predicting the performance of traveling-wave parametric amplifiers (TWPAs) based on nonlinear elements like superconducting Josephson junctions (JJs) is vital for qubit read-out in quantum computers. The purpose of this article is twofold:…

Present semiconductor research is increasingly focusing on either higher speeds or higher linearity or both. Applications range from consumer, industrial, healthcare and military. Typically such circuits are fabricated in today's…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-27 Debopam Banerjee

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…