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We find that the upper critical field in a two-dimensional disordered superconductor can increase essentially at low temperatures. This happens due to the formation of local superconducting islands weakly coupled via the Josephson effect.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 Victor Galitski , A. I. Larkin

The loss in superconducting microwave resonators at low-photon number and low temperatures is not well understood but has implications for achievable coherence times in superconducting qubits. We have fabricated single-layer resonators with…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-19 Moe S. Khalil , F. C. Wellstood , Kevin D. Osborn

We study the contribution of quantum phase fluctuations in the superconducting order parameter to the low--temperature resistivity $\rho(T)$ of a dirty and inhomogeneous superconducting wire. In particular, we account for random spatial…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-01-27 G. Venketeswara Pai , E. Shimshoni , N. Andrei

The low frequency complex impedance of a high resistivity 92 {\mu}{\Omega} cm and 100 nm thick TiN superconducting film has been measured via the transmission of several high sensitivity GHz microresonators, down to Tc/50. The temperature…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-12 P. Diener , H. Schellevis , J. J. A. Baselmans

Through a comprehensive free energy analysis, we demonstrate that finite temperature can simultaneously weaken superconductivity and mitigate spin polarization induced depairing, leading to potential non-monotonic temperature-dependent…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-11-25 Xusheng Wang , Lianyi He , Shuai-hua Ji

We study the superconducting proximity effect between a conventional semiconductor and a disordered s-wave superconductor. We calculate the effective momentum relaxation rate in the semiconductor due to processes involving electron…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-04-25 Roman M. Lutchyn , Tudor D. Stanescu , S. Das Sarma

In this paper, we investigate thermal entanglement in a superconducting-quantum-interference-device qubit coupled to a cavity field. We show that the entanglement can be manipulated by varying temperature and an effective controlling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Hai-Zhong Pan , Le-Man Kuang

Superconducting quantum phase transitions tuned by disorder (d), paramagnetic impurity (MI) and perpendicular magnetic field (B) have been studied in homogeneously disordered ultrathin a-Pb films. The MI-tuned transition is characterized by…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 J. S. Parker , D. E. Read , A. Kumar , P. Xiong

Disordered superconductors offer new impedance regimes for quantum circuits, enable a pathway to protected qubits, and can improve superconducting detectors due to their high kinetic inductance and sheet resistance. The performance of these…

Superconducting quantum technologies require qubit systems whose properties meet several often conflicting requirements, such as long coherence times and high anharmonicity. Here, we provide an engineering framework based on a generalized…

Through the integration of semiconductors or complex oxides into metal resonators, tunable metamaterials have been achieved by a change of environment using an external stimulus. Metals provide high conductivity to realize a strong resonant…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-17 Ranjan Singh , Jie Xiong , Abul K. Azad , Hao Yang , Stuart A. Trugman , Q. X. Jia , Antoinette J. Taylor , Hou-Tong Chen

Low-loss superconducting rf devices are required when used for quantum computation. Here, we present a series of measurements and simulations showing that conducting losses in the packaging of our superconducting resonator devices affect…

In addition to their central role in quantum information processing, qubits have proven to be useful tools in a range of other applications such as enhanced quantum sensing and as spectrometers of quantum noise. Here we show that a…

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Pure quantum phenomena are characterized by intrinsic recurrences in space and time. We use such an intrinsic periodicity as a quantization condition to derive the essential phenomenology of superconductivity. The resulting description is…

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We have investigated temporal fluctuation of superconducting qubits via the time-resolved measurement for an IBM Quantum system. We found that the qubit error rate abruptly changes during specific time intervals. Each high error state…

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The association of quantum Griffiths singularity (QGS) to the magnetic-field-induced superconductor-metal transition predicts the unconventional diverging behaviour of dynamical critical exponent in low disorder crystalline two-dimensional…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-06-25 Sachin Yadav , M. P. Saravanan , Sangeeta Sahoo

Due to their high kinetic inductance, highly disordered superconducting thin films are a potential hardware for the realization of compact, low-noise elements in cryoelectronic applications. However, high disorder typically results in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-02-12 J. Lorenz , S. Linzen , M. Ziegler , G. Oelsner , R. Stolz , F. S. Tautz , F. Lüpke , E. Il'ichev

As a part of my doctoral thesis, I studied the effect of phase fluctuations in two dimensional (2D) and three dimensional (3D) superconducting films of conventional s-wave superconductor, NbN, by measuring the electrodynamics response…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-04-10 Mintu Mondal

Adoption of fast, parametric coupling elements has improved the performance of superconducting qubits, enabling recent demonstrations of quantum advantage in randomized sampling problems. The development of low loss, high contrast couplers…

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