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We present a simple home made solution enabling in-situ RF reflectometry measurements with a millikelvin scanning tunneling microscope (mk-STM). The additions described below were made using RF best practices following similar detection…

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We demonstrate an experimental method for direct 2D and 3D imaging of magnetic radio-frequency (rf) field distribution in metal-dielectric structures based on traveling wave (TW) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) at ultra-high field (> 7T).…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-01-19 A. Tonyushkin , D. K. Deelchand , P. -F. Van de Moortele , G. Adriany , A. Kiruluta

Spatial separation of Majorana zero modes distinguishes trivial from topological midgap states and is key to topological protection in quantum computing applications. Although signatures of Majorana zero modes in tunneling spectroscopy have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-28 M. T. Deng , S. Vaitiekénas , E. Prada , P. San-Jose , J. Nygård , P. Krogstrup , R. Aguado , C. M. Marcus

The interaction of photons and coherent quantum systems can be employed to detect electromagnetic radiation with remarkable sensitivity. We introduce a quantum radiometer based on the photon-induced-dephasing process of a superconducting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-12 Zhixin Wang , Mingrui Xu , Xu Han , Wei Fu , Shruti Puri , S. M. Girvin , Hong X. Tang , S. Shankar , M. H. Devoret

To confirm the Majorana signatures, significant effort has been devoted to distinguishing between Majorana zero modes (MZMs) and spatially separated quasi-Majorana modes (QMMs). Because both MZMs and QMMs cause a quantized zero-bias peak in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-22 Donghao Liu , Zhan Cao , Xin Liu , Hao Zhang , Dong E. Liu

We study multiband semiconducting nanowires proximity-coupled with an s-wave superconductor and calculate the topological phase diagram as a function of the chemical potential and magnetic field. The non-trivial topological state…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-03-19 Tudor Stanescu , Roman M. Lutchyn , S. Das Sarma

We use frequency entangled photons, generated via spontaneous parametric down conversion, to measure the broadband spectral response of an array of gold nanoparticles exhibiting Fano-type plasmon resonance. Refractive index sensing of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-27 Dmitry A. Kalashnikov , Zhenying Pan , Arseniy I. Kuznetsov , Leonid A. Krivitsky

We present a self-calibrating, SI-traceable broadband Rydberg-atom-based radio-frequency (RF) electric field probe (the Rydberg Field Probe or RFP) and measurement instrument (Rydberg Field Measurement System or RFMS). The RFMS comprises an…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-08-12 David Alexander Anderson , Rachel Elizabeth Sapiro , Georg Raithel

Fast, high-fidelity measurement is a key ingredient for quantum error correction. Conventional approaches to the measurement of superconducting qubits, involving linear amplification of a microwave probe tone followed by heterodyne…

Magnetic torque is used to actuate nano-torsional resonators, which are fabricated by focused-ion-beam milling of permalloy coated silicon nitride membranes. Optical interferometry is used to measure the mechanical response of two torsion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-03-09 J. P. Davis , D. Vick , D. C. Fortin , J. A. J. Burgess , W. K. Hiebert , M. R. Freeman

It was predicted by Tewari [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 100}, 027001 (2008)] that a teleportationlike electron transfer phenomenon is one of the novel consequences of the existence of Majorana fermion, because of the inherently nonlocal nature.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-26 Peiyue Wang , Yunshan Cao , Ming Gong , Shu-Shen Li , Xin-Qi Li

We probe electro-mechanical properties of InAs nanowire (diameter ~ 100 nm) resonators where the suspended nanowire (NW) is also the active channel of a field effect transistor (FET). We observe and explain the non-monotonic dispersion of…

We achieve high detectivity terahertz sensing using a silicon nitride nanomechanical resonator functionalized with a metasurface absorber. High performances are achieved by striking a fine balance between the frequency stability of the…

We present measurements of a hybrid system consisting of a microwave transmission-line resonator and a lateral quantum dot defined on a GaAs heterostructure. The two subsystems are separately characterized and their interaction is studied…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-06-30 T. Frey , P. J. Leek , M. Beck , K. Ensslin , A. Wallraff , T. Ihn

We applied a tabletop, ultrafast, high-harmonic generation (HHG) source to measure the element-specific ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) in ultra-thin magnetic alloys and multilayers on an opaque Si substrate. We demonstrate a continuous wave…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-04-25 Michael Tanksalvala , Anthony Kos , Jacob Wisser , Scott Diddams , Hans T. Nembach , Justin M. Shaw

A sensor that integrates high sensitivity micro-Hall effect magnetometry and high-frequency electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy capabilities on a single semiconductor chip is presented. The Hall-effect magnetometer was fabricated…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 H. M. Quddusi , C. M. Ramsey , J. C. Gonzalez-Pons , J. J. Henderson , E. del Barco , G. de Loubens , A. D. Kent

Superconducting qubits are a leading platform for scalable quantum computing and quantum error correction. One feature of this platform is the ability to perform projective measurements orders of magnitude more quickly than qubit…

Superconducting nanowire single photon detectors are capable of single-photon detection across a large spectral range, with near unity detection efficiency, picosecond timing jitter, and sub-10 $\mu$m position resolution at rates as high as…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-03-18 T. Polakovic , W. R. Armstrong , V. Yefremenko , J. E. Pearson , K. Hafidi , G. Karapetrov , Z. -E. Meziani , V. Novosad

We investigate a heterostructure system with a spin-orbit coupled semiconductor sandwiched by an s-wave superconductor and a ferromagnetic insulator, which supports Majorana fermions (MFs) at the superconducting vortex cores. We propose a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-19 Long-Hua Wu , Qi-Feng Liang , Zhi Wang , Xiao Hu

A multimode microcavity sensor based on a self-interference microring resonator is demonstrated experimentally. The proposed multimode sensing method is implemented by recording wideband transmission spectra that consist of multiple…