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We have developed a contact-less technique for the real time measurement of a-thermal (Cooper-pair breaking) phonons in an absorber held at sub-Kelvin temperatures. In particular, a thin-film aluminum superconducting resonator was realized…

The tunnelling of cooper pairs across a Josephson junction (JJ) allow for the nonlinear inductance necessary to construct superconducting qubits, amplifiers, and various other quantum circuits. An alternative approach using hybrid…

In this letter, we investigate the dynamics of a single superconducting artificial atom capacitively coupled to a transmission line with a characteristic impedance comparable or larger than the quantum resistance. In this regime, microwaves…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-07 Emely Wiegand , Benjamin Rousseaux , Göran Johansson

Massive mechanical resonators operating at the quantum scale can enable a large variety of applications in quantum technologies, as well as fundamental tests of quantum theory. Of crucial importance in that direction, is both their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-04 Marios Kounalakis , Yaroslav M. Blanter , Gary A. Steele

Gate-tunable transmon qubits are based on quantum conductors used as weak links within hybrid Josephson junctions. These gatemons have been implemented in just a handful of systems, all relying on extended conductors, namely epitaxial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-29 H. Riechert , S. Annabi , A. Peugeot , H. Duprez , M. Hantute , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , E. Arrighi , J. Griesmar , J. -D. Pillet , L. Bretheau

We have developed a low-loss, ultra-small radio frequency $(RF)$ metamaterial operating at $\sim$76 MHz. This miniaturized medium is made up of planar spiral elements with diameter as small as $\sim$$\lambda$/658 ($\lambda$ is the free…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-18 Cihan Kurter , John Abrahams , Steven M. Anlage

We fabricate a microscale electromechanical system, in which a suspended superconducting membrane, treated as a mechanical oscillator, capacitively couples to a superconducting microwave resonator. As the microwave driving power increases,…

Microwave storage and retrieval are essential capabilities for superconducting quantum circuits. Here, we demonstrate an on-chip multimode resonator in which strong parametric modulation induces a large and tunable normal-mode splitting…

We experimentally investigate a superconducting circuit composed of two flux qubits ultrastrongly coupled to a common LC resonator. Owing to the large anharmonicity of the flux qubits, the system can be described well by a generalized Dicke…

Silicon spin qubits have emerged as a promising path to large-scale quantum processors. In this prospect, the development of scalable qubit readout schemes involving a minimal device overhead is a compelling step. Here we report the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-09 A. Crippa , R. Ezzouch , A. Aprá , A. Amisse , L. Houtin , B. Bertrand , M. Vinet , M. Urdampilleta , T. Meunier , M. Sanquer , X. Jehl , R. Maurand , S. De Franceschi

We describe transmon qubit dynamics in the presence of noise introduced by an impedance-matched resistor ($50\,\mathrm{\Omega}$) that is embedded in the qubit control line. To obtain the time evolution, we rigorously derive the circuit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-14 Antti Vaaranta , Marco Cattaneo , Russell E. Lake

Modular architectures are a promising route toward scalable superconducting quantum processors, but finite fabrication yield and the lack of high quality temporary interconnects impose fundamental limitations on system size. Here, we…

Coupled electromechanical resonators that can be independently driven/detected and easily integrated with external circuits are essential for exploring mechanical modes based signal processing. Here, we present a room temperature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-13 Alok Pokharel , Hao Xu , Srisaran Venkatachalam , Eddy Collin , Xin Zhou

We report on the realization of a superinductor, a dissipationless element whose microwave impedance greatly exceeds the resistance quantum. The design of the superinductor, implemented as a ladder of nanoscale Josephson junctions, enables…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-03-05 M. T. Bell , I. A. Sadovskyy , L. B. Ioffe , A. Yu. Kitaev , M. E. Gershenson

In superconducting qubits, suppression of spontaneous emission is essential to achieve fast dispersive measurement and reset without sacrificing qubit lifetime. We show that resonator-mediated decay of the qubit mode to the feedline can be…

Superconducting circuits are a promising platform for implementing fault-tolerant quantum computers, quantum limited amplifiers, ultra-low power superconducting electronics, and sensors with ultimate sensitivity. Typically, circuit…

The Schwinger oscillator construct of angular momentum, applied to the superconducting transmon and its transmission-line readout, modeled as capacitvely coupled quantum oscillators, provides a natural and robust description of a qubit. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-19 R. P. Erickson

Transitions in an artificial atom, driven non-adiabatically through an energy-level avoided crossing, can be controlled by carefully engineering the driving protocol. We have driven a superconducting persistent-current qubit with a…

The transmon, a fabrication-friendly superconducting qubit, remains a leading candidate for scalable quantum computing. Recent advances in tunable couplers have accelerated progress toward high-performance quantum processors. However,…

We present theoretical transmission spectra of a strongly driven, damped, flux qubit coupled to a dissipative resonator in the ultrastrong coupling regime. Such a qubit-oscillator system, described within a dissipative Rabi model,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-22 L. Magazzù , P. Forn-Díaz , M. Grifoni