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Conventional readout of a superconducting nanowire single-photon detector (SNSPD) sets an upper bound on the output voltage to be the product of the bias current and the load impedance, $I_\mathrm{B}\times Z_\mathrm{load}$, where…

Superconducting thin-film electronics are attractive for their low power consumption, fast operating speeds, and ease of interface with cryogenic systems such as single-photon detector arrays, and quantum computing devices. However, the…

We study the generation of coherent phonons in a superconductor by ultrafast optical pump pulses. The nonequilibrium dynamics of the coupled Bogoliubov quasiparticle-phonon system after excitation with the pump pulse is analyzed by means of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-12-14 Andreas P. Schnyder , Dirk Manske , Adolfo Avella

We investigate short pulse illumination of a high-speed extended-InGaAs photodiode at cryogenic temperatures towards its use in control and readout of superconducting qubits. First, we demonstrate high detector responsivity at 1550 nm…

Josephson junctions form the essential non-linearity for almost all superconducting qubits. The junction is formed when two superconducting electrodes come within $\sim$1 nm of each other. Although the capacitance of these electrodes is a…

An optical transistor capable of simultaneous amplification and switching is theoretically proposed via cascaded second-order nonlinear interactions in a resonant structure. Two distinct operational schemes are analyzed. A single frequency…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-23 Jongbae Kim

We study a mechanism to induce superconductivity in atomically thin semiconductors where excitons mediate an effective attraction between electrons. Our model includes interaction effects beyond the paradigm of phonon-mediated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-28 Jonas von Milczewski , Xin Chen , Atac Imamoglu , Richard Schmidt

Superconducting qubits are solid state electrical circuits fabricated using techniques borrowed from conventional integrated circuits. They are based on the Josephson tunnel junction, the only non-dissipative, strongly non-linear circuit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. H. Devoret , A. Wallraff , J. M. Martinis

Neural oscillations can enhance feature recognition, modulate interactions between neurons, and improve learning and memory. Simulational studies have shown that coherent oscillations give rise to windows in time during which information…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2014-10-07 Andrew T. Sornborger , Louis Tao

Controlling femtosecond optical pulses with temporal precision better than one cycle of the carrier field has a profound impact on measuring and manipulating interactions between light and matter. We explore pulses that are carved from a…

We have studied the current-voltage characteristics of superconducting weak links in which the coupling medium is the 2-D electron gas in InAs-based semiconductor quantum wells, with relatively large (typically 0.5 micron) separations…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Thomas , H. R. Blank , K. C. Wong , H. Kroemer , E. Hu

We describe a superconducting device capable of producing laser light in the visible range at half the Josephson generation frequency, with the optical phase of the light locked to the superconducting phase difference. An earlier proposed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-20 Frans Godschalk , Yuli V. Nazarov

We demonstrate a high-frequency generator operating at ~200GHz based on flipping a semifluxon in a Josephson junction of moderate normalized length. The semifluxon spontaneously appears at the $\pi$ discontinuity of the Josephson phase…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-02-14 M. Paramonov , M. Yu. Fominsky , V. P. Koshelets , B. Neumeier , D. Koelle , R. Kleiner , E. Goldobin

Bose-condensation of mass-less quasiparticles (photons) can be easily achieved at the room temperature in lasers. On the other hand, condensation of bosons having a non-zero mass requires usually ultra-low temperatures. Recently, it has…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 A. V. Kavokin , I. A. Shelykh , M. M. Glazov

The superconducting diode effect has garnered significant interest due to its prospective applications in cryogenic electronics and computing, enabling directional supercurrent transport. This phenomenon has been demonstrated across various…

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Amplifiers are ubiquitous in electronics and play a fundamental role in a wide range of scientific measurements. From a user's perspective, an ideal amplifier has very low noise, operates over a broad frequency range, and has a high dynamic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-01-12 Byeong Ho Eom , Peter K. Day , Henry G. Leduc , Jonas Zmuidzinas

Photonic Spiking Neural Networks (PSNN) composed of the co-integrated CMOS and photonic elements can offer low loss, low power, highly-parallel, and high-throughput computing for brain-inspired neuromorphic systems. In addition,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-28 Yun-Jhu Lee , Mehmet Berkay On , Luis El Srouji , Li Zhang , Mahmoud Abdelghany , S. J. Ben Yoo

In this paper we discuss solid-state nanoelectronic realizations of Josephson flux qubits with large tunneling amplitude between the two macroscopic states. The latter can be controlled via the height and wells form of the potential…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-04-02 V. I. Shnyrkov , A. A. Soroka , S. I. Melnik

Spectral density of current fluctuations in a short ballistic superconducting quantum point contact is calculated for arbitrary bias voltages $V$. Contrary to a common opinion that the supercurrent flow in Josephson junctions is coherent…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 D. Averin , H. Imam

We consider a superconducting coplanar waveguide resonator where the central conductor is interrupted by a series of uniformly spaced Josephson junctions. The device forms an extended medium that is optically nonlinear on the single photon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-18 Martin Leib , Michael J. Hartmann