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We develop a technique to overcome phase-mismatch in Josephson-junction traveling wave parametric amplifiers in order to achieve high gain over a broad bandwidth. Using "resonant phase matching," we design a compact superconducting device…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-10-15 Kevin O'Brien , Chris Macklin , Irfan Siddiqi , Xiang Zhang

Low-noise amplification atmicrowave frequencies has become increasingly important for the research related to superconducting qubits and nanoelectromechanical systems. The fundamental limit of added noise by a phase-preserving amplifier is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-21 Pasi Lähteenmäki , Visa Vesterinen , Juha Hassel , G. S. Paraoanu , Heikki Seppä , Pertti Hakonen

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

Josephson junction parametric amplifiers are playing a crucial role in the readout chain in superconducting quantum information experiments. However, their integration with current 3D cavity implementations poses the problem of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-23 A. Narla , K. M. Sliwa , M. Hatridge , S. Shankar , L. Frunzio , R. J. Schoelkopf , M. H. Devoret

Superconducting traveling-wave parametric amplifiers (TWPAs) are increasingly used in various applications, including quantum computing, quantum sensing, and dark matter detection. However, one important characteristic of these amplifiers,…

An amplifier combining noise performances as close as possible to the quantum limit with large bandwidth and high saturation power is highly desirable for many solid state quantum technologies such as high fidelity qubit readout or high…

Operating superconducting qubits at elevated temperatures offers increased cooling power and thus system scalability, but requires suppression of thermal photons to preserve coherence and readout fidelity. This motivates migration to higher…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-22 Z. Hao , J. Cochran , Y. -C. Chang , H. M. Cole , S. Shankar

The relentless scaling of classical microelectronics has been enabled by the precision and reproducibility of deep-ultraviolet (DUV) optical lithography. Implementing large-scale superconducting quantum processors will require cryogenic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Hao Li , Marco Scigliuzzo , Evgenii Guzovskii , Seog-Tae Han , Kyungho Han , Tobias J. Kippenberg

We present a new quantum-limited Josephson-junction-based 3-wave-mixing parametric amplifier, the SNAIL Parametric Amplifier (SPA), which uses an array of SNAILs (Superconducting Nonlinear Asymmetric Inductive eLements) as the source of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-21 N. E. Frattini , V. V. Sivak , A. Lingenfelter , S. Shankar , M. H. Devoret

We demonstrate a high dynamic range Josephson parametric amplifier (JPA) in which the active nonlinear element is implemented using an array of rf-SQUIDs. The device is matched to the 50 $\Omega$ environment with a Klopfenstein-taper…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-04 T. C. White , Alex Opremcak , George Sterling , Alexander Korotkov , Daniel Sank , Rajeev Acharya , Markus Ansmann , Frank Arute , Kunal Arya , Joseph C. Bardin , Andreas Bengtsson , Alexandre Bourassa , Jenna Bovaird , Leon Brill , Bob B. Buckley , David A. Buell , Tim Burger , Brian Burkett , Nicholas Bushnell , Zijun Chen , Ben Chiaro , Josh Cogan , Roberto Collins , Alexander L. Crook , Ben Curtin , Sean Demura , Andrew Dunsworth , Catherine Erickson , Reza Fatemi , Leslie Flores-Burgos , Ebrahim Forati , Brooks Foxen , William Giang , Marissa Giustina , Alejandro Grajales Dau , Michael C. Hamilton , Sean D. Harrington , Jeremy Hilton , Markus Hoffmann , Sabrina Hong , Trent Huang , Ashley Huff , Justin Iveland , Evan Jeffrey , Márika Kieferová , Seon Kim , Paul V. Klimov , Fedor Kostritsa , John Mark Kreikebaum , David Landhuis , Pavel Laptev , Lily Laws , Kenny Lee , Brian J. Lester , Alexander Lill , Wayne Liu , Aditya Locharla , Erik Lucero , Trevor McCourt , Matt McEwen , Xiao Mi , Kevin C. Miao , Shirin Montazeri , Alexis Morvan , Matthew Neeley , Charles Neill , Ani Nersisyan , Jiun How Ng , Anthony Nguyen , Murray Nguyen , Rebecca Potter , Chris Quintana , Pedram Roushan , Kannan Sankaragomathi , Kevin J. Satzinger , Christopher Schuster , Michael J. Shearn , Aaron Shorter , Vladimir Shvarts , Jindra Skruzny , W. Clarke Smith , Marco Szalay , Alfredo Torres , Bryan Woo , Z. Jamie Yao , Ping Yeh , Juhwan Yoo , Grayson Young , Ningfeng Zhu , Nicholas Zobrist , Yu Chen , Anthony Megrant , Julian Kelly , Ofer Naaman

We demonstrate a narrow band phase sensitive amplifier in the pump degenerate configuration which employs ps pump pulses. Control of the amplifier bandwidth is achieved via changes of the pump spectral width. A phase sensitive gain between…

Optics · Physics 2016-08-17 Alexander Gershikov , Gad Eisenstein

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…

A process which strongly amplifies both quadrature amplitudes of an oscillatory signal necessarily adds noise. Alternatively, if the information in one quadrature is lost in phase-sensitive amplification, it is possible to completely…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-14 C. F. Ockeloen-Korppi , E. Damskägg , J. -M. Pirkkalainen , T. T. Heikkilä , F. Massel , M. A. Sillanpää

A particularly simple setup is introduced to study the influence of time-delayed coherent feedback on the optical squeezing properties of the degenerate parametric amplifier (DPA). The possibility for significantly enhanced squeezing is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-10 Nikolett Német , Scott Parkins

Superconducting traveling-wave parametric amplifiers have emerged as highly promising devices for near-quantum-limited broadband amplification of microwave signals and are essential for high quantum-efficiency microwave readout lines.…

We have realized a microwave quantum-limited amplifier that is directional and can therefore function without the front circulator needed in many quantum measurements. The amplification takes place in only one direction between the input…

We study the dynamics of a driven atomic Josephson junction that we propose as a parametric amplifier. By periodically modulating the position of the barrier, we induce a small current across the junction, serving as our input signal. The…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-05-29 Vijay Pal Singh , Luigi Amico , Ludwig Mathey

We demonstrate a radio-frequency parametric amplifier that exploits the gate-tunable quantum capacitance of an ultra high mobility two dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in a GaAs heterostructure at cryogenic temperatures. The prototype…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-27 A. El Kass , C. T. Jin , J. D. Watson , G. C. Gardner , S. Fallahi , M. J. Manfra , D. J. Reilly

Superconducting Parametric Amplifiers (SPAs) have seen great interest in recent years due to their high gain and quantum limited noise performance. Among these amplifiers, resonant SPAs have been widely developed for experiments where ultra…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-04-30 V. Gilles , T. Sweetnam , B. Mohammadian , M. A. McCulloch , L. Piccirillo

We theoretically investigate a near-quantum-limited parametric amplifier based on the nonlinear dynamics of quasiparticles flowing through a superconducting-insulator-superconducting junction. Photon-assisted tunneling, resulting from the…