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We propose a nanoscale device consisting of a double quantum dot with a full exchange and pair hopping interaction. In this design, the current can only flow through the upper dot, but is sensitive to the spin state of the lower dot. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-25 Pierre Lombardo , Imam Makhfudz , Steffen Schäfer , Roland Hayn

We develop a theory of coherent quantum oscillations in two, in general interacting, qubits measured continuously by a mesoscopic detector with arbitrary non-linearity and discuss an example of SQUID magnetometer that can operate as such a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Wenjin Mao , Dmitri V. Averin , Francesco Plastina , Rosario Fazio

Sensors based on spin qubits in 2D crystals offer the prospect of nanoscale sensing volumes, where the close proximity of the sensor and source could provide access to otherwise inaccessible signals. For AC magnetometry, the sensitivity and…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-03-14 Charlie J. Patrickson , Simon Baber , Blanka B. Gaál , Andrew J. Ramsay , Isaac J. Luxmoore

In applications for high-Tc superconducting DC-SQUIDs such as biomagnetism, nondestructive evaluation and the relaxation of magnetic nanoparticles, it is important to maintain reliable sensor performance over an extended time period. We…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 P Seidel , C Becker , A Steppke , M Buettner , H Schneidewind , V Grosse , G Zieger , F Schmidl

NanoSQUIDs are quantum sensors that excel in detecting a small change in magnetic flux with high sensitivity and high spatial resolution. Here, we employ resist-free direct-write Ga+ Focused Ion Beam Induced Deposition (FIBID) techniques to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-03-11 Fabian Sigloch , Soraya Sangiao , Pablo Orús , José María de Teresa

The real-time flux dynamics of up to three superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs) are studied by numerically solving the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation. The numerical results are used to scrutinize the mapping of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-03 Madita Willsch , Dennis Willsch , Fengping Jin , Hans De Raedt , Kristel Michielsen

We control transition frequency of a superconducting flux qubit coupled to a frequency-tunable resonator comprising a direct current superconducting quantum interference device (dc-SQUID) by microwave driving. The dc-SQUID mediates the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-08 Hiraku Toida , Takuya Ohrai , Yuichiro Matsuzaki , Kosuke Kakuyanagi , Shiro Saito

Inductance is a key parameter when optimizing the performance of superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) magnetometers made from the high temperature superconductor YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{7-x}$ (YBCO) because lower SQUID inductance…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-01-29 S. Ruffieux , A. Kalaboukhov , M. Xie , M. Chukharkin , C. Pfeiffer , S. Sepehri , J. F. Schneiderman , D. Winkler

Scanning probe microscopy with multi-qubit sensors offers the potential to improve imaging speed and measure previously inaccessible quantities, such as two-point correlations. We develop a multiplexed quantum sensing approach with scanning…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-09 William S. Huxter , Federico Dalmagioni , Christian L. Degen

Efficient detection of magnetic fields is central to many areas of research and has important practical applications ranging from materials science to geomagnetism. High sensitivity detectors are commonly built using direct…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-07 Mustafa Bal , Chunqing Deng , Jean-Luc Orgiazzi , Florian Ong , Adrian Lupascu

We propose and demonstrate wide-band capacitance measurements on a semiconductor double-quantum dot (DQD) to study tunneling dynamics. By applying phase-tunable high-frequency signals independently to the DQD and a nearby…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Takeshi Ota , Toshiaki Hayashi , Koji Muraki , Toshimasa Fujisawa

We propose and demonstrate two practical mitigation methods to attenuate the cosmic muon flux, compatible with experiments involving superconducting qubits: shallow underground sites and specific device orientation. Using a…

Currently a way is lacking to detect unambiguously the possible phase coherence of an exciton condensate in an electron-hole double layer. Here we show that despite the fact that excitons are charge-neutral, the double layer exciton…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-02-01 Louk Rademaker , Jan Zaanen , Hans Hilgenkamp

Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices (SQUIDs) can have excellent spin sensitivity depending on their magnetic flux noise, pick-up loop diameter, and distance from the sample. We report a family of scanning SQUID susceptometers with…

We propose a scheme to implement variable coupling between two flux qubits using the screening current response of a dc Superconducting QUantum Interference Device (SQUID). The coupling strength is adjusted by the current bias applied to…

Practical performance of quantum sensors is often curtailed by uncontrolled environmental drift (bias-field instability, temperature fluctuations, mechanical vibration), background fields, and imperfect control pulses. This motivates…

Atom interferometers are reaching sensitivities fundamentally constrained by quantum fluctuations. A main challenge is to integrate entanglement into quantum sensing protocols to enhance precision while ensuring robustness against noise and…

We propose a method to design a magnetic field detector using a noisy two-qubit system. The system evolves under a noisy Heisenberg interaction Hamiltonian, and we investigate its behavior by calculating both the $l_1$-norm of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-04 George Biswas , Sayan Sengupta , Anindya Biswas

We present a method to identify spurious signals generated by finite-width pulses in quantum sensing experiments and apply it to recently proposed dynamical decoupling sequences for accurate spectral interpretation. We first study the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-28 J. F. Haase , Z. -Y. Wang , J. Casanova , M. B. Plenio

This paper reports on the design optimization done for Double Sided silicon microStrip Detectors(DSSDs) to reduce the Equivalent Noise Charge (ENC) and to maximize the breakdown voltage and Charge Collection Efficiency. Various isolation…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-12 S. Chatterji , M. Singla , W. F. J. Mueller , J. M. Heuser