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We characterize a niobium-based superconducting quantum interference proximity transistor (Nb-SQUIPT) built upon a Nb-Cu-Nb SNS weak link. The Nb-SQUIPT and SNS devices are fabricated simultaneously in two separate lithography and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-03-14 R. N. Jabdaraghi , J. T. Peltonen , D. S. Golubev , J. P. Pekola

Spin-based silicon quantum electronic circuits offer a scalable platform for quantum computation, combining the manufacturability of semiconductor devices with the long coherence times afforded by spins in silicon. Advancing from current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-09 E. Vahapoglu , J. P. Slack-Smith , R. C. C. Leon , W. H. Lim , F. E. Hudson , T. Day , T. Tanttu , C. H. Yang , A. Laucht , A. S. Dzurak , J. J. Pla

Engineering high-order nonlinearities while suppressing lower-order terms is crucial for quantum error correction and state control in bosonic systems, yet it remains an outstanding challenge. Here, we introduce a general framework of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-15 Ziyue Hua , Yifang Xu , Weiting Wang , Yuwei Ma , Jie Zhou , Weizhou Cai , Hao Ai , Yu-xi Liu , Ming Li , Chang-Ling Zou , Luyan Sun

We present a scheme for the implementation of three qubit Grover's algorithm using four-level superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs) coupled to a superconducting resonator. The scheme is based on resonant, off-resonant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-02 Muhammad Waseem , Rizwan Ahmed , Muhammad Irfan , Shahid Qamar

The recent demonstration of the superconducting diode effect (SDE) has generated renewed interests in superconducting electronics in which devices such as compact superconducting diodes that can perform signal rectification where low-energy…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-05-29 H. C. Travaglini , J. J. Cuozzo , K. R. Sapkota , I. A. Leahy , A. D. Rice , K. Alberi , W. Pan

Quantum sensing with solid-state spin defects has transformed nanoscale metrology, offering sub-wavelength spatial resolution with exceptional sensitivity to multiple signal types. Maximizing these advantages requires minimizing both the…

The magnetic field noise in superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs) used for biomagnetic research such as magnetoencephalography or ultra-low-field nuclear magnetic resonance is usually limited by instrumental dewar noise. We…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-02-20 Jan-Hendrik Storm , Peter Hömmen , Dietmar Drung , Rainer Körber

We report on realization and transport spectroscopy study of single quantum dots (QDs) made from InSb nanowires grown by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE). The nanowires employed are 50-80 nm in diameter and the QDs are defined in the nanowires…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-30 Dingxun Fan , Sen Li , N. Kang , Philippe Caroff , L. B. Wang , Y. Q. Huang , M. T. Deng , C. L. Yu , H. Q. Xu

On-chip scalable integration represents a major challenge for practical quantum devices. One particular challenge is to implement on-chip optical readout of spins in diamond. This readout requires simultaneous application of optical and…

The study of 3D magnetic nanostructures has uncovered a range of rich phenomena including the stabilization and control of topological spin textures using nanoscale curvature, dynamic effects allowing controlled spin-wave emission, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-08 Joseph Askey , Matthew Oliver Hunt , Lukas Payne , Arjen van den Berg , Ioannis Pitsios , Alaa Hejazi , Wolfgang Langbein , Sam Ladak

We present results of Niobium based SQUID magnetometers for which the weak-links are engineered by the local oxidation of thin films using an Atomic Force Microscope (AFM). Firstly, we show that this technique allows the creation of…

We present measurements of an amplifier based on a dc superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) with submicron Al-AlOx-Al Josephson junctions. The small junction size reduces their self-capacitance and allows for the use of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-19 M. P. DeFeo , P. Bhupathi , K. Yu , T. W. Heitmann , C. Song , R. McDermott , B. L. T. Plourde

We analyze electrostatic interaction between a sharp conducting tip and a thin one-dimensional wire, e.g., a carbon nanotube, in a scanned gate microscopy (SGM) experiment. The problem is analytically tractable if the wire resides on a thin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-02 Lingfeng M. Zhang , Michael M. Fogler

We study a novel configuration for displacement detection consisting of a nanomechanical resonator coupled to both, a radio frequency superconducting interference device (RF SQUID) and to a superconducting stripline resonator. We employ an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Eyal Buks , Stav Zaitsev , Eran Segev , Baleegh Abdo , M. P. Blencowe

We report on the fabrication and characterization of nanopatterned dc SQUIDs with grain boundary Josephson junctions based on heteroepitaxially grown YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_7$ (YBCO)/ SiTrO$_3$ (STO) superlattices on STO bicrystal substrates.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-07-23 J. Lin , J. Linek , R. Kleiner , D. Koelle

Down-scaling device dimensions to the nanometer range raises significant challenges to traditional device design, due to potential current leakage across nanoscale dimensions and the need to maintain reproducibility while dealing with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-03 Zhongcan Xiao , Chuanxu Ma , Jingsong Huang , Liangbo Liang , Wenchang Lu , Kunlun Hong , Bobby G. Sumpter , An-Ping Li , J. Bernholc

Spins confined in quantum dots are considered as a promising platform for quantum information processing. While many advanced quantum operations have been demonstrated, experimental as well as theoretical efforts are now focusing on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-06 T. Cubaynes , M. R. Delbecq , M. C. Dartiailh , R. Assouly , M. M. Desjardins , L. C. Contamin , L. E. Bruhat , Z. Leghtas , F. Mallet , A. Cottet , T. Kontos

We report on the fabrication of nano-devices on the \hkl[-1 0 1] surface of a Weyl semimetal, a macroscopic crystal of TaAs, and low-temperature transport measurements. We can implement electron beam lithography by peeling off and…

A hybrid quantum system is proposed by coupling the internal hyperfine transitions of a trapped atomic Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) and a superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) via the macroscopic quantum field of the flux…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-08 Kelly R. Patton , Uwe R. Fischer

The study of exotic one-dimensional states, particularly those at the edges of topological materials, demand new experimental probes that can access the interplay between charge and spin degrees of freedom. One potential approach is to use…