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We describe a pulsed rotating supersonic beam source, evolved from an ancestral device [M. Gupta and D. Herschbach, J. Phys. Chem. A 105, 1626 (2001)]. The beam emerges from a nozzle near the tip of a hollow rotor which can be spun at…

Based on the principles of microwave circuit interferometry we have constructed a Reduced Noise Amplifier (RNA) with power spectral density of phase, as well as amplitude, fluctuations close to -170 dBc/Hz at 1 kHz offset. The RNA has been…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-03-23 Eugene N. Ivanov , Michael E. Tobar

We demonstrate a high bit-rate quantum random number generator by interferometric detection of phase diffusion in a gain-switched DFB laser diode. Gain switching at few-GHz frequencies produces a train of bright pulses with nearly equal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 C. Abellan , W. Amaya , M. Jofre , M. Curty , A. Acin , J. Capmany , V. Pruneri , M. W. Mitchell

Tunable, low-loss, narrowband, and frequency-stabilized filters play a critical role in the realization of transceivers for efficient signal processing in telecommunications and sensing applications in the presence of strong interference…

We demonstrate a stable CMOS-compatible on-chip multiple-wavelength source by filtering and modulating individual lines from a frequency comb generated by a microring resonator optical parametric oscillator.. We show comb operation in a…

We present control schemes for open quantum systems that combine decoupling and universal control methods with coding procedures. By exploiting a general algebraic approach, we show how appropriate encodings of quantum states result in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Lorenza Viola , Emanuel Knill , Seth Lloyd

By strongly driving a cyclic-transition three-level artificial atom, demonstrated by such as a flux-based superconducting circuit, we show that coherent microwave signals can be excited along a coupled one-dimensional transmission line.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 W. Z. Jia , L. F. Wei , Z. D. Wang

In superconducting electronics, the ability to control the frequency of microwave wave packets is crucial for several applications, such as the operation of superconducting quantum processors and the readout of superconducting sensors. We…

We experimentally demonstrate quantum behavior of a macroscopic atomic spin oscillator in the acoustic frequency range. Quantum back-action of the spin measurement, ponderomotive squeezing of light, and oscillator spring softening are…

We propose a new type of cryogenic current amplifiers, in which low-frequency power spectrum of current can be measured through a measurement of microwave response of a superconducting resonant circuit shunted by a series array of Josephson…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-08-14 Yuma Okazaki , Nobu-hisa Kaneko

Bright sources of quantum microwave light are an important building block for various quantum technological applications. Josephson junctions coupled to microwave cavities are a particularly versatile and simple source for microwaves with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-03 Lukas Danner , Florian Höhe , Ciprian Padurariu , Joachim Ankerhold , Björn Kubala

Single-photon sources are of great interest because they are key elements in different promising applications of quantum technologies. Here we demonstrate a highly efficient tunable on-demand microwave single-photon source based on a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-11 Yu Zhou , Zhihui Peng , Yuta Horiuchi , O. V. Astafiev , J. S. Tsai

A low maintenance long-term operational cryogenic sapphire oscillator has been implemented at 11.2 GHz using an ultra-low-vibration cryostat and pulse-tube cryocooler. It is currently the world's most stable microwave oscillator employing a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2011-01-12 John G. Hartnett , Nitin R. Nand

We analyze the dynamics of a continuously observed, damped, microwave driven solid state charge qubit. The qubit consists of a single electron in a double well potential, coupled to an oscillating electric field, and which is continuously…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. D. Barrett , T. M. Stace

We address the experimentally relevant problem of robust mitigation of dephasing noise acting on a qubit. We first present an extension of a method for representing $1/\omega^{\alpha}$ noise developed by Kuopanportti et al. to the efficient…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-06-01 Kevin C. Young , Dylan J Gorman , K. Birgitta Whaley

A low noise constant current source used for measuring the $1/f$ noise in disordered systems in ohmic as well as non-ohmic regime is described. The source can supply low noise constant current starting from as low as 1 $\mu$A to a few tens…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-05-20 D. Talukdar , R. K. Chakraborty , Suvendu Bose , K. K. Bardhan

Quantum sensors, qubits sensitive to external fields, have become powerful detectors for various small acoustic and electromagnetic fields. A major key to their success have been dynamical decoupling protocols which enhance sensitivity to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-24 Timo Joas , Andreas M. Waeber , Georg Braunbeck , Friedemann Reinhard

Agile rf sources are a common requirement for control systems in quantum science and technology platforms. The direct digital synthesizer (DDS) often fills this role by allowing programmable control of the rf signals. Due to limitations of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-09-20 Ethan Huegler , Joshua C Hill , David H Meyer

An ideal music synthesizer should be both interactive and expressive, generating high-fidelity audio in realtime for arbitrary combinations of instruments and notes. Recent neural synthesizers have exhibited a tradeoff between…

Noisy voltage sources can be a limiting factor for fundamental physics experiments as well as for device applications in quantum information, mesoscopic circuits, magnetometry, and other fields. The best commercial DC voltage sources can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-05 J. -L. Smirr , P. Manset , Ç. Ö. Girit