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We present a new style of fluxonium qubit, gatemonium, based on an all superconductorsemiconductor hybrid platform. The linear inductance is achieved using six hundred planar Al-InAs Josephson junctions (JJs) in series. By tuning the single…

In state-of-the-art silicon devices, mobility of the carrier is enhanced by the lattice strain from the back substrate. Such an extra control of device performance is significant in realizing high performance computing and should be valid…

Nanoscale superconductor-semiconductor hybrid devices are assembled from InAs semiconductor nanowires individually contacted by aluminum-based superconductor electrodes. Below 1 K, the high transparency of the contacts gives rise to…

A theoretical model of high-T_c Josephson Field Effect Transistors (JoFETs) based on a Ginzburg-Landau free energy expression whose parameters are field- and spatially- dependent is developed. This model is used to explain experimental data…

supr-con · Physics 2009-10-30 J. J. Betouras , R. Joynt , Z. -W. Dong , T. Venkatesan , P. Hadley

A new approach was developed for the design of front-end circuits for semiconductor radiation detectors. The readout scheme consists of a first stage made of only a few components located close to the detector, and of a remote second stage…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-09-02 L. Cassina , C. Cattadori , A. Giachero , C. Gotti , M. Maino , G. Pessina

We report the observation of Josephson diode effect (JDE) in hybrid devices made from semiconductor InAs nanosheets and superconductor Al contacts. By applying an in-plane magnetic field ($B_{\mathrm{xy}}$), we detect non-reciprocal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-17 Shili Yan , Yi Luo , Haitian Su , Han Gao , Xingjun Wu , Dong Pan , Jianhua Zhao , Ji-Yin Wang , Hongqi Xu

A tunable, multi-degree-of-freedom, parametrically excited amplifier is introduced as an apparatus capable of shifting slow, weak signals to higher frequencies, by exploiting the amplifier natural resonances via controlled parametric…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-10-16 Amit Dolev , Izhak Bucher

High-fidelity quantum non-demolition qubit measurement is critical to error correction and rapid qubit feedback in large-scale quantum computing. High-fidelity readout requires passing a short and strong pulse through the qubit's readout…

Josephson parametric converters (JPCs) are superconducting devices capable of performing nondegenerate, three-wave mixing in the microwave domain without losses. One drawback limiting their use in scalable quantum architectures is the large…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-02-22 Baleegh Abdo , Jose M. Chavez-Garcia , Markus Brink , George Keefe , Jerry M. Chow

We propose and demonstrate a new read-out technique for a superconducting qubit by dispersively coupling it to a Josephson parametric oscillator. We employ a tunable quarter-wavelength superconducting resonator and modulate its resonant…

We present an all-fiber design for a Tm-based fiber amplifier that can tune over 1992-2065 nm with 300-350 W single-frequency (<100 kHz) output. Over 180 W is achieved out to 2085 nm with <10% ASE content without utilizing ASE spectral…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-12 Reagan R. D. Weeks , Ryan A. Lane , Brian M. Anderson

We develop a theory for non-degenerate parametric resonance in a tunable superconducting cavity. We focus on nonlinear effects that are caused by nonlinear Josephson elements connected to the cavity. We analyze parametric amplification in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-31 Waltraut Wustmann , Vitaly Shumeiko

High-frequency performance of graphene field-effect transistors (GFETs) with boron-nitride gate dielectrics is investigated. Devices show saturating IV characteristics and fmax values as high as 34 GHz at 600-nm channel length. Bias…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-14 I. Meric , C. R. Dean , S. -J. Han , L. Wang , K. A. Jenkins , J. Hone , K. L. Shepard

Phase dynamics has been measured in a driven mesoscopic Josephson oscillator where the resonance is tuned either by magnetic flux or by gate charge modulation of the Josephson inductance. Phenomena are analyzed in terms of a "phase particle…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mika A. Sillanpaa , Leif Roschier , Pertti J. Hakonen

Resonant phase-matched Josephson traveling-wave parametric amplifiers (RPM JTWPAs) play a key role in quantum computing and quantum information applications due to their low-noise, broadband amplification, and quadrature squeezing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 M. A. Gali Labarias , T. Yamada , Y. Nakashima , Y. Urade , K. Inomata

Superconducting parametric amplifiers are commonly fabricated using planar transmission lines with a non-linear inductance provided by either Josephson junctions or the intrinsic kinetic inductance of the thin film. However, Banys et al.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-12-21 Valerio Gilles , Danielius Banys , Mark A. McCulloch , Lucio Piccirillo , Thomas Sweetnam

We present measurements of an amplifier based on a dc superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) with submicron Al-AlOx-Al Josephson junctions. The small junction size reduces their self-capacitance and allows for the use of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-19 M. P. DeFeo , P. Bhupathi , K. Yu , T. W. Heitmann , C. Song , R. McDermott , B. L. T. Plourde

We present a sensitive, tunable radio-frequency resonator designed to detect reactive changes in nanoelectronic devices down to dilution refrigerator temperatures. The resonator incorporates GaAs varicap diodes to allow electrical tuning of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-28 David J. Ibberson , Lisa A. Ibberson , Geoff Smithson , James A. Haigh , Sylvain Barraud , M. Fernando Gonzalez-Zalba

We report a gate-tunable Josephson diode effect in hybrid nanowire junctions consisting of a spin-orbit-coupled semiconductor core coated with epitaxial ferromagnetic insulator and superconductor shells. The wires display a hysteretic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-19 Sjoerd Telkamp , Junting Zhao , Saulius Vaitiekėnas

Gatemons are superconducting qubits resembling transmons, with a gate-tunable semiconducting weak link as the Josephson element. Here, we report a gatemon device featuring an aluminum microwave circuit on a Ge/SiGe heterostructure embedding…