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Circulators and directional amplifiers are crucial non-reciprocal signal routing and processing components involved in microwave readout chains for a variety of applications. They are particularly important in the field of superconducting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-11 K. M. Sliwa , M. Hatridge , A. Narla , S. Shankar , L. Frunzio , R. J. Schoelkopf , M. H. Devoret

Parametric amplifiers play a crucial role in modern quantum technology by enabling the enhancement of weak signals with minimal added noise. Traditionally, Josephson junctions have been the primary choice for constructing parametric…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-07 Simone Frasca , Camille Roy , Guillaume Beaulieu , Pasquale Scarlino

Superconducting traveling-wave parametric amplifiers (TWPAs) are essential elements for enhancing the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and thus the read-out fidelity of superconducting qubits because of their high gain and near quantum-limited…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-13 Daryoush Shiri , Likai Yang , Saesun Kim , Mohamed A. Hassan , Philip Krantz , Eric T. Holland

Parametric down-conversion is a widely exploited technique in optics to produce entangled states of photons for quantum information processing and quantum sensing. In the microwave domain, devices based on Josephson junctions, such as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-14 Yufeng Wu , Mingrui Xu , Hong X. Tang

We present an experimentally implementable method to couple Josephson charge qubits and to generate and detect macroscopic entangled states. A large-junction superconducting quantum interference device is used in the qubit circuit for both…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Q. You , J. S. Tsai , Franco Nori

We consider the propagation of a classical electromagnetic wave through a transmission line, formed by identical superconducting charge qubits inside a superconducting resonator. Since the qubits can be in a coherent superposition of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 A. L. Rakhmanov , A. M. Zagoskin , Sergey Savel'ev , Franco Nori

Quantum illumination (QI) is a quantum sensing protocol mainly for target detection which uses entangled signal-idler photon pairs to enhance the detection efficiency of low-reflectivity objects immersed in thermal noisy environments.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-26 Qizhi Cai , Jinkun Liao , Bohai Shen , Guangcan Guo , Qiang Zhou

The fundamental noise limit of a phase-preserving amplifier at frequency $\omega /2\pi $ is the standard quantum limit $T_{q}=\hbar \omega /2k_{B}$. In the microwave range, the best candidates have been amplifiers based on superconducting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-06-03 Pasi Lähteenmäki , Visa Vesterinen , Juha Hassel , Heikki Seppä , Pertti Hakonen

Nonreciprocal microwave devices play several critical roles in high-fidelity, quantum-nondemolition (QND) measurement schemes. They separate input from output, impose unidirectional routing of readout signals, and protect the quantum…

Parametric converters are parametric amplifiers that mix two spatially separate nondegenerate modes and are commonly used for amplifying and squeezing microwave signals in quantum computing and sensing. In Josephson parametric converters,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-13 M. Khalifa , P. Feldmann , J. Salfi

Single-photon detectors are an essential part of the toolbox of modern quantum optics for implementing quantum technologies and enabling tests of fundamental physics. The low energy of microwave photons, the natural signal path for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 Lukas Danner , Max Hofheinz , Nicolas Bourlet , Ciprian Padurariu , Joachim Ankerhold , Björn Kubala

Microwave parametric amplifiers based on Josephson junctions have become a key component of many quantum information experiments. One key limitation which has not been well predicted by theory is the gain saturation behavior which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-06 G. Liu , T. -C. Chien , X. Cao , O. Lanes , E. Alpern , D. Pekker , M. Hatridge

Josephson meta-materials have recently emerged as very promising platform for superconducting quantum science and technologies. Their distinguishing potential resides in ability to engineer them at sub-wavelength scales, which allows…

In this paper, we introduce a method of using a double-layer resist lift-off process to prepare the capacitor dielectric layer for fabricating impedance-engineered Josephson parametric amplifiers (IMPAs). Compared with traditional…

We extend the theory for a Josephson junction travelling wave parametric amplifier (TWPA) operating in the three-wave mixing regime and we propose a scheme for achieving high gain. The continuous three-mode model [P. K. Tien, J. Appl. Phys.…

Nature sets fundamental limits regarding how accurate the amplification of analog signals may be. For instance, a linear amplifier unavoidably adds some noise which amounts to half a photon at best. While for most applications much higher…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-15 S. Jebari , F. Blanchet , A. Grimm , D. Hazra , R. Albert , P. Joyez , D. Vion , D. Esteve , F. Portier , M. Hofheinz

Josephson parametric devices are widely used in superconducting quantum computing research but suffer from an inherent gain-bandwidth trade-off. This limitation is partly overcome by coupling the device to its input/output transmission line…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-18 Rui Yang , Zheng Shi , Zhirong Lin , Waltraut Wustmann

The axion, a hypothetical elementary pseudoscalar, is expected to solve the strong CP problem of QCD and is also a promising candidate for dark matter. The most sensitive axion search experiments operate at millikelvin temperatures and…

The axion is a hypothetical particle, a promising candidate for dark matter, and a solution to the strong CP problem. Axion haloscope search experiments deal with a signal power comparable to noise uncertainty at millikelvin temperature. We…

We study different architectures for a photonic crystal in the microwave regime based on superconducting transmission lines interrupted by Josephson junctions, both in one and two dimensions. A study of the scattering properties of a single…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-07-13 David Zueco , Juan José Mazo , Enrique Solano , Juan José García-Ripoll