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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

Detection of low-reflectivity objects can be improved by the so-called quantum illumination procedure. However, quantum detection probability exponentially decays with the source bandwidth. The Josephson Parametric Amplifiers (JPAs)…

Josephson Parametric Amplifiers (JPAs) are key components in quantum information processing due to their ability to amplify weak quantum signals with near-quantum-limited noise performance. This is essential for applications such as qubit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-18 Ahmad Salmanogli , Hesam Zandi , Mahdi Esmaeili , Abolfazl Eskandari , Mohsen Akbari

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…

Josephson-junction based parametric amplifiers have become a ubiquitous component in superconducting quantum machines. Although parametric amplifiers regularly achieve near-quantum limited performance, they have many limitations, including…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-06 T. -C. Chien , O. Lanes , C. Liu , X. Cao , P. Lu , S. Motz , G. Liu , D. Pekker , M. Hatridge

We designed and fabricated an impedance matched Josephson junction parametric amplifier (JPA) working in the flux-pump mode for the broadband amplification of microwave signals. We developed a very simple fabrication method suitable for a…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Rui Yang , Hui Deng

Predicting the performance of traveling-wave parametric amplifiers (TWPAs) based on nonlinear elements like superconducting Josephson junctions (JJs) is vital for qubit read-out in quantum computers. The purpose of this article is twofold:…

High gain and large bandwidth of traveling-wave parametric amplifier exploiting the nonlinearity of Josephson Junctions can be achieved by fulfilling the so-called phase-matching condition. This condition is usually addressed by placing…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-08-12 Emil Rizvanov , Samuel Kern , Pavol Neilinger , Miroslav Grajcar

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.…

We have developed a concept for a traveling-wave parametric amplifier driven by a magnetic flux wave. The circuit consists of a serial array of symmetric dc SQUIDs coupled inductively to a separate superconducting LC transmission line…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-11-01 A. B. Zorin

Superconducting travelling wave parametric amplifiers (TWPAs) are broadband near-quantum limited microwave amplifiers commonly used for qubit readout and a wide range of other applications in quantum technologies. The performance of these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-06 S. H. Shin , M. Stanley , W. N. Wong , T. Sweetnam , A. Elarabi , T. Lindström , N. M. Ridler , S. E. de Graaf

We develop a quantum theory describing the input-output properties of Josephson traveling wave parametric amplifiers. This allows us to show how such a device can be used as a source of nonclassical radiation, and how dispersion engineering…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-12 Arne L. Grimsmo , Alexandre Blais

We develop the concept of quasi-phasematching (QPM) by implementing it in the recently proposed Josephson traveling-wave parametric amplifier (JTWPA) with three-wave mixing (3WM). The amplifier is based on a ladder transmission line…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-06-02 A. B. Zorin

Superconducting traveling-wave parametric amplifiers (TWPAs) are increasingly used in various applications, including quantum computing, quantum sensing, and dark matter detection. However, one important characteristic of these amplifiers,…

Superconducting traveling-wave parametric amplifiers have emerged as highly promising devices for near-quantum-limited broadband amplification of microwave signals and are essential for high quantum-efficiency microwave readout lines.…

We present an analysis of wave-mixing in recently developed Josephson Travelling Wave Parametric Amplifiers (JTWPAs). Circuit simulations performed using WRspice show the full behaviour of the JTWPA allowing propagation of all tones. The…

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

The recently proposed Josephson traveling-wave parametric amplifier (JTWPA) based on a ladder transmission line consisting of radio-frequency SQUIDs and exploiting three-wave mixing (3WM), has great potential in achieving both a gain of 20…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-30 Victor Gaydamachenko , Christoph Kissling , Ralf Dolata , Alexander B. Zorin

In the last few years, several groups have proposed and developed their own platforms demonstrating quantum-limited linear parametric amplification, with evident applications in quantum information and computation, electrical and optical…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-08-20 Luca Fasolo , Angelo Greco , Emanuele Enrico