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We show that a system of Josephson junctions coupled via low-resistance tunneling contacts to graphene substrate(s) may effectively operate as a current switching device. The effect is based on the dissipation-driven…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 Roman M. Lutchyn , Victor Galitski , Gil Refael , S. Das Sarma

We describe in this paper how the nonlinear Josephson inductance is the crucial circuit element for all Josephson qubits. We discuss the three types of qubit circuits, and show how these circuits use this nonlinearity in unique manners. We…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 John M. Martinis , Kevin Osborne

Hybrid semiconductor-superconductor qubits have recently emerged as a promising alternative to traditional platforms, combining material advantages with device-level tunability. A defining feature is their gate-tunable Josephson coupling,…

Spin chains have long been considered an effective medium for long-range interactions, entanglement generation, and quantum state transfer. In this work, we explore the properties of a spin chain implemented with superconducting flux…

Conventional superconductor/insulator/superconductor (SIS) Josephson junctions, devices where two superconductors are separated by a tunnel barrier are technologically important as elements in quantum circuits, particularly with their key…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-19 Venkat Chandrasekhar

We show that a complete set of one-bit gates can be realized by coupling the two logical states of a phase qubit to a third level (at higher energy) using microwave pulses. Thus, one can achieve coherent control without invoking any…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. H. S. Amin , A. Yu. Smirnov , Alec Maassen van den Brink

Superconducting qubits, realized by incorporating Josephson junctions into superconducting circuits, behave as artificial atoms with anharmonic energy spectra and can be precisely controlled and measured using microwave cavities within the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-04 Roson Nongthombam , Urmimala Dewan , Amarendra K. Sarma

Circuit quantum electrodynamics (QED) has emerged as a promising platform for implementing quantum computation and simulation. Typically, junctions in these systems are of a sufficiently small size, such that only the lowest plasma…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-22 Andrey Grankin , Alicia J. Kollár , Mohammad Hafezi

We describe the design for a scalable, solid-state quantum-information-processing architecture based on the integration of GHz-frequency nanomechanical resonators with Josephson tunnel junctions, which has the potential for demonstrating a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Michael R. Geller , Andrew N. Cleland

The Josephson junction is typically tuned by a magnetic field or electrostatic gates to realize a superconducting transistor, which manipulates the supercurrent in integrated superconducting circuits. However, this tunable method does not…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-27 Guo-Jian Qiao , Zhi-Lei Zhang , Sheng-Wen Li , C. P. Sun

Josephson junctions with a phase drop pi in the ground state allow to create vortices of supercurrent carrying only half of the magnetic flux quantum Phi_0~2.07*10^-15 Wb. Such semifluxons have two-fold degenerate ground states denoted up…

Superconductivity · Physics 2008-12-10 Andreas Dewes , Tobias Gaber , Dieter Koelle , Reinhold Kleiner , Edward Goldobin

We propose a method to achieve strong coupling between a spin ensemble and a large Josephson junctions (LJJ). Then, the strong coupling between two spin ensembles can be induced by a LJJ. A non-adiabatic holonomic single-qubit quantum gates…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-15 Feng-Yang Zhang , Wenlin Li , Chui-Ping Yang

A quantum-mechanical model for the interaction of Josephson vortices (fluxons) embedded in superconducting transmission line is presented. The vortices interact through emission and absorption of linear waves (electromagnetic cavity modes).…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 M. V. Fistul , A. V. Ustinov

We introduce an efficient tensor network toolbox to compute the low-energy excitations of large-scale superconducting quantum circuits up to a desired accuracy. We benchmark this algorithm on the fluxonium qubit, a superconducting quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-26 Agustin Di Paolo , Thomas E. Baker , Alexandre Foley , David Sénéchal , Alexandre Blais

We theoretically investigate the supercurrent flow in a Josephson junction consisting of two spin-split superconductors combined by a normal metal weak link. The normal metal may be driven out of equilibrium, thus modifying the electron and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-08-06 Chi Sun , Jacob Linder

Qubits on solid state devices could potentially provide the rapid control necessary for developing scalable quantum information processors. Materials innovation and design breakthroughs have increased functionality and coherence of qubits…

We study the capacitance-coupled Josephson junction array beyond the small-coupling limit. We find that, when the scale of the system is large, its Hamiltonian can be obtained without the small-coupling approximation and the system can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Liang-Hui Du , Xingxiang Zhou , Yong-Jian Han , Guang-Can Guo , Zheng-Wei Zhou

In this paper, we consider a system consisting of two capacitively coupled superconducting islands via Josephson junctions. We show that it can be reduced to two coupling harmonic oscillators under certain conditions, and solved exactly in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mou Yang , Le-Man Kuang

We implemented, optimized and fully tested over multiple runs a superconducting Josephson junction fabrication process tailored for the integrated digital circuits that are used for control and readout of superconducting qubits operating at…

The charge-phase Josephson qubit based on a superconducting single charge transistor inserted in a low-inductance superconducting loop is considered. The loop is inductively coupled to a radio-frequency driven tank circuit enabling the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. B. Zorin