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We study microwave-driven cooling in a superconducting flux qubit subjected to environment noises. For the weak decoherence, our analytical results agree well with the experimental observations near the degeneracy point and show that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-06-04 Lingjie Du , Yang Yu

We report the cooling of electrons in nanoelectronic Coulomb blockade thermometers below 4 mK. Above 7 mK the devices are in good thermal contact with the environment, well isolated from electrical noise, and not susceptible to…

Low-temperature systems play a vital role in a variety of scientific research applications, including the next generation of cosmology and astrophysics telescopes. More ambitious cryogenic applications require precise estimates of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-30 Henry E. Nachman , Oorie Desai , Nicholas Galitzki , Daniel Lee , JB Lloyd , Tannishtha Nandi , Ani Pagni , Ray Radebaugh , Elle C. Shaw

Reducing the thermal noises in microwave (MW) resonators can bring about significant progress in many research fields. In this study, we consider using three-level or four-level systems as "quantum refrigerators" to cool down MW resonators…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-27 Han-Jia Bi , Sheng-Wen Li

We present an improved nuclear refrigerator reaching 0.3 mK, aimed at microkelvin nanoelectronic experiments, and use it to investigate metallic Coulomb blockade thermometers (CBTs) with various resistances R. The high-R devices cool to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-17 L. Casparis , M. Meschke , D. Maradan , A. C. Clark , C. Scheller , K. K. Schwarzwalder , J. P. Pekola , D. M. Zumbuhl

Purpose: A novel dissolution dynamic nuclear polarization (dDNP) polarizer platform is presented. The polarizer meets a number of key requirements for in vitro, pre-clinical and clinical applications. Method: It uses no liquid cryogens,…

Superconducting microwave amplifiers are essential for sensitive signal readout in superconducting quantum processors. Typically based on Josephson Junctions, these amplifiers require operation at milli-Kelvin temperatures to achieve…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-07 Mingrui Xu , Yufeng Wu , Wei Dai , Hong X. Tang

We report local time-resolved thermometry in a silicon nanowire quantum dot device designed to host a linear array of spin qubits. Using two alternative measurement schemes based on rf reflectometry, we are able to probe either local…

Cryogenic temperatures are the prerequisite for many advanced scientific applications and technologies. The accurate determination of temperature in this range and at the submicrometer scale is, however, nontrivial. This is due to the fact…

Superconducting quantum computers have emerged as a leading platform for next-generation computing, offering exceptional scalability and unprecedented computational speeds. However, scaling these systems to millions of qubits for practical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-21 Yong-Bok Lee , Connor Devitt , Xu Zhu , Nicholas Yost , Yabei Gu , Sunil A. Bhave

Enabling temperature dependent experiments in Atomic Force Microscopy is of great interest to study materials and surface properties at the nanoscale. By studying Curie temperature of multiferroic materials, temperature based phase…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-07-19 A. del Moral , J. C. González-Rosillo , A. Gómez , T. Puig , X. Obradors

We studied noise properties of microwave signals transmitted through the cryogenic resonator. The experiments were performed with the 11.342 GHz sapphire loaded cavity resonator cooled to 6.2 K. Based on the measured transmission…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-02-23 Eugene Ivanov , Michael Tobar

Measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution (MDI-QKD), enhances quantum cryptography by mitigating detector-side vulnerabilities. This study analyzes MDI-QKD performance in thermal-loss and phase noise channels, modeled as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-15 Heyang Peng , Seid Koudia , Leonardo Oleynik , Symeon Chatzinotas

Spin qubits in gate-defined quantum dots (QDs) are emerging as a leading technology due to their scalability and long coherence times. However, maintaining these qubits at ultra-low temperatures typically requires complex cryogenic systems.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-29 Daryoosh Vashaee , Jahanfar Abouie

Highly coherent mechanical resonators are invaluable to ultrasensitive detection techniques by enabling detection of small forces. Studying mechanical resonators in a thermal equilibrium state at millikelvin temperatures provides a…

The latest generation of cosmic microwave background (CMB) telescopes is searching for the undetected faint signature of gravitational waves from inflation in the polarized signal of the CMB. To achieve the unprecedented levels of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-08 Darcy Barron , Matt Atlas , Brian Keating , Ron Quillin , Nathan Stebor , Brandon Wilson

Understanding heat transport is relevant to develop efficient strategies for thermal management in microelectronics for instance, as well as for fundamental science purposes. However, measuring temperatures in nanostructured environments…

Ultralow dissipation plays an important role in sensing applications and exploring macroscopic quantum phenomena using micro-and nano-mechanical systems. We report a diamagnetic-levitated micro-mechanical oscillator operating at a low…

The quantum bits (qubits) on which superconducting quantum computers are based have energy scales corresponding to photons with GHz frequencies. The energy of photons in the gigahertz domain is too low to allow transmission through the…

A fundamental challenge of the quantum revolution is to efficiently interface the quantum computing systems operating at cryogenic temperatures with room temperature electronics and media for high data-rate communication. Current approaches…