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Adiabatic Quantum-Flux-Parametron (AQFP) logic is a promising emerging superconducting technology for ultra-low power digital circuits, offering orders of magnitude lower power consumption than CMOS. However, AQFP scalability is challenged…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Robert S. Aviles , Peter A. Beerel

A design of subkelvin single flux quantum (SFQ) circuits with reduced power dissipation and additional cooling of shunt resistors for superconducting qubit control circuits has been developed and characterized. We demonstrate operation of…

Flux transformers are the necessary component of all superconductor digital integrated circuits utilizing ac power for logic cell excitation and clocking, and flux biasing, e.g., Adiabatic Quantum Flux Parametron (AQFP), Reciprocal Quantum…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-02-03 Sergey K. Tolpygo

Quantum phase estimation (QPE) is a central algorithmic primitive that estimates eigenvalues of a Hamiltonian up to precision $\epsilon$ in Heisenberg-limited time $T=\Theta(1/\epsilon)$. Standard gate-based implementations of QPE require…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-22 Alexander Schmidhuber , Seth Lloyd

Adiabatic pulses are used extensively to enable robust control of quantum operations. We introduce a new approach to adiabatic control that uses the superadiabatic quality or $Q$-factor as a performance metric to design robust, high…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-25 Jonathan Vandermause , Chandrasekhar Ramanathan

We present the first direct comparison between gate-based quantum computing (GQC) and adiabatic quantum computing (AQC) paradigms for solving the AC power flow (PF) equations. The PF problem is reformulated as a combinatorial optimization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-09 Zeynab Kaseb , Matthias Moller , Peter Palensky , Pedro P. Vergara

We present the realization and characterization of a novel-concept interferometer, the superconducting quantum interference proximity transistor (SQUIPT). Its operation relies on the modulation with the magnetic field of the density of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-05 F. Giazotto , J. T. Peltonen , M. Meschke , J. P. Pekola

We discuss how a single Cooper-pair transistor may be used to detect the superconducting phase difference by using the phase dependence of the input capacitance from gate to the ground. The proposed device has a low power dissipation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Leif Roschier , Mika Sillanpaa , Pertti Hakonen

We propose an optimal method exploiting second order quantum phase transitions to perform high precision measurements of the control parameter at criticality. Our approach accesses the high fidelity susceptibility via the measurement of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-05 Luca Pezzè , Andreas Trenkwalder , Marco Fattori

A scalable superconducting architecture for adiabatic quantum computers is proposed. The architecture is based on time-independent, nearest-neighbor interqubit couplings: it can handle any problem in the class NP even in the presence of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 William M. Kaminsky , Seth Lloyd , Terry P. Orlando

Quantum adiabatic transfer is widely used in quantum computation and quantum simulation. However, the transfer speed is limited by the quantum adiabatic approximation condition, which hinders its application in quantum systems with a short…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-31 Wen Zheng , Jianwen Xu , Zhimin Wang , Yuqian Dong , Dong Lan , Xinsheng Tan , Yang Yu

The Landauer limit is to irreversible logic what the Carnot cycle is to heat engines. This limit is approached in the adiabatic Quantum Flux Parametron (aQFP) by copying the inputs of standard logic gates to produce reversible logic gates,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-04-08 Quentin Herr

Owing to their strong dipole moment and long coherence times, superconducting qubits have demonstrated remarkable success in hybrid quantum circuits. However, most qubit architectures are limited to the GHz frequency range, severely…

We demonstrate, for the first time, that a quantum flux parametron (QFP) is capable of acting as both isolator and amplifier in the readout circuit of a capacitively shunted flux qubit (CSFQ). By treating the QFP like a tunable coupler and…

We report the design and implementation of a high-performance superconducting quantum interference proximity transistor (SQUIPT) based on aluminum-copper (Al-Cu) technology. With the adoption of a thin and short copper nanowire we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-13 A. Ronzani , C. Altimiras , F. Giazotto

We show that the sensitivity of antenna-coupled field-effect transistors (FETs) to terahertz (THz) radiation improves continuously with decreasing temperature. The noise-equivalent power (NEP) of 540 GHz patch-antenna-coupled FETs decreases…

We show that an LC parametric transducer can be effectively used to monitor an adiabatic evolution of the superconducting flux qubit. We propose a new scheme to measure the qubit's state, which is a quantum nondemolition measurement. The…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Grajcar , A. Izmalkov , E. Il'ichev

Here we report the fabrication and characterization of fully superconducting quantum interference proximity transistors (SQUIPTs) based on the implementation of vanadium (V) in the superconducting loop. At low temperature, the devices show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-06 Nadia Ligato , Giampiero Marchegiani , Pauli Virtanen , Elia Strambini , Francesco Giazotto

We report a nanoscale device concept based on a highly doped $\delta$-layer tunnel junction embedded in a semiconductor for charge sensing. Recent advances in Atomic Precision Advanced Manufacturing (APAM) processes have enabled the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-16 Juan P. Mendez , Denis Mamaluy

We propose a sensitive new detector based on Cooper pair breaking in a superconductor. The quantum capacitor detector (QCD) exploits the extraordinary sensitivity of superconducting single-electron devices to the presence of quasiparticles…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-06-27 P. M. Echternach , M. D. Shaw , J. Bueno , P. K. Day , C. M. Bradford