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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

Josephson Parametric Amplifiers (JPA) are nonlinear devices that are used for quantum sensing and qubit readout in the microwave regime. While JPAs regularly operate in the quantum limit, their gain saturates for very small (few photons)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-18 Chenxu Liu , Tzu-Chiao Chien , Michael Hatridge , David Pekker

Due to their unique properties as lossless, nonlinear circuit elements, Josephson junctions lie at the heart of superconducting quantum information processing. Previously, we demonstrated a two-layer, submicrometer-scale overlap junction…

Degenerate parametric amplifiers (DPAs) exhibit the unique property of phase-sensitive gain and can be used to noiselessly amplify small signals or squeeze field fluctuations beneath the vacuum level. In the microwave domain, these…

Highly sensitive, broadband bolometers are of great interest because of their versatile usage in wide areas starting from dark matter search, radio astronomy, material science, and qubit readouts in cQED experiments. There have been…

Superconducting parametric amplifiers are crucial components in microwave quantum circuits for enabling quantum-limited signal readout. The best-performing such amplifiers are often based on Josephson junctions, which however are sensitive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-17 Mingrui Xu , Risheng Cheng , Yufeng Wu , Gangqiang Liu , Hong X. Tang

We describe a wide-band Josephson Parametric Amplifier (JPA) that is impedance-matched using an integrated compact superconducting transmission line transformer. The impedance transformer consists of two broadside coupled transmission lines…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-20 Leonardo Ranzani , Guilhem Ribeill , Brian Hassick , Kin Chung Fong

Graphene Josephson junctions (JJ) provide a promising platform for ultra-broadband quantum sensing of light owing to graphene's frequency-independent absorption, vanishing electronic heat capacity, and weak electron-phonon coupling, which…

The ability to manipulate quantum information encoded in microwave fields has led to a renewed interest in Josephson parametric amplifiers (JPAs). For these applications the ability of JPAs to amplify signals with the least amount of added…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. A. Castellanos-Beltran , K. D. Irwin , L. R. Vale , G. C. Hilton , K. W. Lehnert

Josephson parametric amplifier (JPA) engineering is a significant component in the quantum two-mode squeezed radar (QTMS), to enhance, for instance, radar performance and the detection range or bandwidth. In this study, we apply quantum…

Quantum computing systems and fundamental physics experiments using superconducting technologies frequently require signal amplification chains operating near the quantum limit of added noise. Both Josephson parametric amplifiers (JPAs) and…

Many experiments operating at millikelvin temperatures with signal frequencies in the microwave regime are beginning to incorporate Josephson Parametric Amplifiers (JPA) as their first amplification stage. While there are implementations…

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

Van der Waals (vW) Josephson junctions (JJs) realized by stacking materials such as few-layered NbSe2, offers a new landscape to realize superconducting quantum devices with superior properties owing to its crystalline nature and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-22 Annu Anns Sunny , H Choubey , A Khola , S Narayanan , R Bharadwaj , P Gireesan , Madhu Thalakulam

We present a Josephson traveling-wave parametric amplifier (JTWPA) based on a low-loss coplanar lumped-element waveguide architecture. By employing open-stub capacitors and Manhattan-pattern junctions, our device achieves an insertion loss…

Josephson parametric amplifiers (JPA) have become key devices in quantum science and technology with superconducting circuits. In particular, they can be utilized as quantum-limited amplifiers or as a source of squeezed microwave fields.…

Broadband quantum-limited amplifiers are essential for quantum information processing, yet challenges in design and fabrication continue to hinder their widespread applications. Here, we introduce the broadband merged-element Josephson…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-18 Yuting Sun , Xianke Li , Qingyu Wang , Tairong Bai , Xudong Liao , Dong Lan , Jie Zhao , Yang Yu

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…

We introduce a novel near-quantum-limited amplifier with a large tunable bandwidth and high dynamic range - the Josephson Array Mode Parametric Amplifier (JAMPA). The signal and idler modes involved in the amplification process are realized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-18 V. V. Sivak , S. Shankar , G. Liu , J. Aumentado , M. H. Devoret