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Artificial transmission lines built with lumped-element inductors and capacitors form the backbone of broadband, nearly quantum-limited traveling-wave parametric amplifiers (TWPAs). When tailoring these transmission lines for parametric…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 M. Malnou

We present an impedance engineered Josephson parametric amplifier capable of providing bandwidth beyond the traditional gain-bandwidth product. We achieve this by introducing a positive linear slope in the imaginary component of the input…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-03 Tanay Roy , Suman Kundu , Madhavi Chand , A. M. Vadiraj , A. Ranadive , N. Nehra , Meghan P. Patankar , J. Aumentado , A. A. Clerk , R. Vijay

We have realized a microwave quantum-limited amplifier that is directional and can therefore function without the front circulator needed in many quantum measurements. The amplification takes place in only one direction between the input…

Nondegenerate Josephson mixers (JMs), formed by coupling two different transmission-line resonators to Josephson ring modulators (JRMs), are vital and versatile devices capable of processing microwave signals at the quantum limit. Owing to…

Circulators are nonreciprocal devices that enable directional signal routing. Nonreciprocity, which requires time-reversal symmetry breaking, can be produced in waveguides in which the propagation medium moves relative to the waveguide at a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-03 Dat Thanh Le , Arkady Fedorov , Thomas M. Stace

This paper presents a detailed theoretical review of the amplification process in Josephson Parametric Amplifiers (JPAs), which are crucial for quantum-limited signal amplification in superconducting circuits. The paper begins by outlining…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-31 Rajlaxmi Bhoite , Shraddhanjali Choudhury

The effect of Kerr-induced optical fiber nonlinearities in C-band (5 THz) EDFA and C+L-band (12.5 THz) Raman-amplified optical communication systems has been studied considering the impact of third-order fiber dispersion. The performance of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-25 Nikita A. Shevchenko , Tianhua Xu , Cenqin Jin , Domaniç Lavery , Robert I. Killey , Polina Bayvel

Kinetic inductance travelling wave parametric amplifiers (KI-TWPAs) have been simulated using Keysight's Advanced Design System (ADS). A lumped element representation of a superconducting transmission line has been developed using nonlinear…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-08-09 T. Sweetnam , D. Banys , V. Gilles , M. A. McCulloch , L. Piccirillo

We create a Josephson parametric amplifier from a transmission line resonator whose inner conductor is made from a series SQUID array. By changing the magnetic flux through the SQUID loops, we are able to adjust the circuit's resonance…

Superconductivity · Physics 2008-11-17 M. A. Castellanos-Beltran , K. W. Lehnert

We study diffusion of the Josephson phase in the asymmetric SQUID subjected to a time-periodic current and pierced by an external magnetic flux. We analyze a relation between phase diffusion and quality of transport characterized by the dc…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-06-01 Jakub Spiechowicz , Jerzy Łuczka

Driving quantum systems periodically in time plays an essential role in the coherent control of quantum states. The rotating wave approximation (RWA) is a good approximation technique for weak and nearly-resonance driven fields. However,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-07 Byoung-moo Ann , Wouter Kessels , Gary. A. Steele

With a large portfolio of elemental quantum components, superconducting quantum circuits have contributed to dramatic advances in microwave quantum optics. Of these elements, quantum-limited parametric amplifiers have proven to be essential…

We report on the microwave characterization of a novel one-dimensional Josephson metamaterial composed of a chain of asymmetric superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs) with nearest-neighbor coupling through common Josephson…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-11-22 Wenyuan Zhang , W. Huang , M. E. Gershenson , M. T. Bell

We report an experimental and theoretical study of the phase diffusion in small Josephson junctions under microwave irradiation. A peculiar enhancement of the phase diffusion by microwaves is observed. The enhancement manifests itself by a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 Y. Koval , M. V. Fistul , A. V. Ustinov

Advancing fault-tolerant quantum computing and fundamental science necessitates quantum-limited amplifiers with near-ideal quantum efficiency and multiplexing capability. However, existing solutions typically achieve one at the expense of…

The work aims to propose a new nonlinear characteristics model for a wideband radio amplifier of variable supply voltage. An extended Rapp model proposal is presented. The proposed model has been verified by measurements of three different…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-06 Kornelia Kostrzewska , Paweł Kryszkiewicz

Devices that achieve nonreciprocal microwave transmission are ubiquitous in radar and radio-frequency communication systems, and commonly rely on magnetically biased ferrite materials. Such devices are also indispensable in the readout…

We present a detailed simulation and design framework for realizing traveling wave parametric amplifiers (TWPAs) using the nonlinear kinetic inductance of disordered superconductors -- in our case niobium-titanium-nitride (NbTiN). These…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-11 L. Howe , A. Giachero , M. Vissers , P. Campana , J. Wheeler , J. Gao , J. Austermann , J. Hubmayr , A. Nucciotti , J. Ullom

A Superconducting QUantum Interference Device (SQUID) modulated by a fast oscillating magnetic flux can be used as a parametric amplifier, providing gain with very little added noise. Here, we develop linearized models to describe the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-03-24 K. M. Sundqvist , P. Delsing

Parametric converters are parametric amplifiers that mix two spatially separate nondegenerate modes and are commonly used for amplifying and squeezing microwave signals in quantum computing and sensing. In Josephson parametric converters,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-13 M. Khalifa , P. Feldmann , J. Salfi