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We report experimental results on characteristics of SFIFS junctions and multi-terminal SFIFSIS devices (where S, I, and F denote a superconductor (Nb), an insulator (AlOx), and a ferromagnetic material (Ni), respectively). The SFIFS…

Interconnection studies require solving numerous instances of the AC load or power flow (AC PF) problem to simulate diverse scenarios as power systems navigate the ongoing energy transition. To expedite such studies, this work leverages…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-18 Thinh Viet Le , Md Obaidur Rahman , Vassilis Kekatos

Single-Flux Quantum (SFQ) digital logic is typically energy efficient and fast, and logic that uses ballistic and reversible principles provides a new platform to improve efficiency. We are studying long Josephson junctions (long JJs), SFQs…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 Han Cai , Liuqi Yu , Waltraut Wustmann , Ryan Clarke , Kevin D. Osborn

The single flux quantum (SFQ) digital superconducting logic family has been proposed for the scalable control of next-generation superconducting qubit arrays. In the initial implementation, SFQ-based gate fidelity was limited by…

Josephson junction circuits, such as superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs) and single-flux-quantum (SFQ) circuits, have been applied in both analog and digital systems for their ultralow-noise, high-speed, and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-07-07 Yongliang Wang

Josephson junction field-effect transistors (JJFETs) have recently re-emerged as promising candidates for superconducting computing. For JJFETs to perform Boolean logic operations, the so-called gain factor $\alpha_{R}$ must be larger than…

Exascale computing and its associated applications have required increasing degrees of efficiency. Semiconductor-Transistor-based Circuits (STbCs) have struggled with increasing the GHz frequency while dealing with power dissipation issues.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Junyao Zhang , Paul Bogdan , Shahin Nazarian

The rapid-pace growing demand for high-performance computation and big-data manipulation entails substantial increase in global power consumption, and challenging thermal management. Thus, there is a need in allocating competitive…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-05-29 Nikolay Gusarov , Rajesh Mandal , Issa Salameh , Itamar Holzman , Shahar Kvatinsky , Yachin Ivry

We report the first experimental demonstration of recently proposed energy-efficient single flux quantum logic, eSFQ. This logic can represent the next generation of RSFQ logic eliminating dominant static power dissipation associated with a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-11 Mark Hans Volkmann , Anubhav Sahu , Coenrad Johan Fourie , Oleg A. Mukhanov

The Single Flux Quantum (SFQ) logic family is a novel digital logic as it provides ultra-fast and energy-efficient circuits. For large-scale SFQ circuit design, specialized electronic design automation (EDA) tools are required due to the…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Shucheng Yang , Xiaoping Gao , Ruoting Yang , Jie Ren , Zhen Wang

We introduce Josephson junction and inductor models in Keysight ADS that feature an auxiliary flux port, and facilitate the expression of flux quantization conditions in simulation of superconducting microwave circuits. We present several…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-08-16 Ofer Naaman , Ted White , Mohamed Awida Hassan , Derek Slater , Sean Mcilvane , Edwin Yeung , Philip Krantz

We theoretically investigate an opportunity to implement a source of highly spin-polarized ac current on the basis of superconductor/weak ferromagnet/superconductor (SFS) voltage-biased junction in the regime of essential proximity effect…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-10-18 A. M. Bobkov , I. V. Bobkova

We propose a superconducting circuit architecture suitable for digital-analog quantum computing (DAQC) based on an enhanced NISQ family of nearest-neighbor interactions. DAQC makes a smart use of digital steps (single qubit rotations) and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-17 J. Yu , J. C. Retamal , M. Sanz , E. Solano , F. Albarrán-Arriagada

We show a novel method for controlling the coupling of flux-based qubits by means of a superconducting transformer with variable flux transfer function. The device is realized by inserting a small hysteretic dc SQUID with unshunted…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Cosmelli , M. G. Castellano , F. Chiarello , R. Leoni , D. Simeone , G. Torrioli , P. Carelli

We review the salient features of two advanced nodes of an 8-Nb-layer fully planarized process developed recently at MIT Lincoln Laboratory for fabricating Single Flux Quantum(SFQ) digital circuits with very large scale integration on…

Rapid Single Flux Quantum (RSFQ) circuits are the most evolved superconductor logic family. However, the need to clock each cell and the deep pipeline causes a complex clock network with a large skew. This results in lower throughput and…

We propose and demonstrate the functioning of a special Rapid Single Flux Quantum (RSFQ) circuit with frequency-dependent damping. This damping is achieved by shunting individual Josephson junctions by pieces of open-ended RC transmission…

Superconductivity · Physics 2008-10-19 E. M. Tolkacheva , D. V. Balashov , M. I. Khabipov , A. B. Zorin

The superconducting fluxonium circuit is an RF-SQUID-type flux qubit that uses a large inductance built from an array of Josephson junctions or a high kinetic inductance material. This inductance suppresses charge sensitivity exponentially…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-01 I. N. Moskalenko , I. S. Besedin , I. A. Simakov , A. V. Ustinov

DC-voltage-biased Josephson junctions have been recently employed in superconducting circuits for Hamiltonian engineering, demonstrating microwave amplification, single photon sources and entangled photon generation. Compared to more…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Thiziri Aissaoui , Anil Murani , Raphaël Lescanne , Alain Sarlette

The non-dissipative non-linearity of a Josephson junction converts macroscopic superconducting circuits into artificial atoms, enabling some of the best controlled quantum bits (qubits) today. Three fundamental types of superconducting…