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We have prepared meta-atoms based on radio frequency superconducting quantum interference devices (RF SQUIDs) and examined their tunability with dc magnetic field, rf current, and temperature. RF SQUIDs are superconducting split ring…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-12-24 M. Trepanier , Daimeng Zhang , Oleg Mukhanov , Steven M. Anlage

We theoretically explore Josephson diode effect (JDE) in superconductor/quantum dot (QD)/superconductor junction in the presence of a magnetic field and Rashba spin-orbit interaction (RSOI). We calculate the Josephson current in our QD…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-05-08 Debika Debnath , Paramita Dutta

Atomtronics has the potential for engineering new types of functional devices, such as Josephson junctions (JJs). Previous studies have mainly focused on JJs whose ground states have 0 or $\pi $ superconducting phase difference across the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-10-19 Lei Jiang , Yong Xu , Chuanwei Zhang

Mesoscopic multi-terminal Josephson junctions are novel devices that provide weak coupling between several bulk superconductors through a common normal layer. Because of the nonlocal coupling of the superconducting banks, a current flow…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. H. S. Amin , A. N. Omelyanchouk , A. Blais , A. Maassen van den Brink , G. Rose , T. Duty , A. M. Zagoskin

Superconducting qubits with intrinsic noise protection offer a promising approach to improve the coherence of quantum information. Crucial to such protected qubits is the encoding of the logical quantum states into wavefunctions with…

In a standard Josephson junction the current is zero when the phase difference between the superconducting leads is zero. This condition is protected by parity and time-reversal symmetries. However, the combined presence of spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-14 William Mayer , Matthieu C. Dartiailh , Joseph Yuan , Kaushini S. Wickramasinghe , Enrico Rossi , Javad Shabani

It is now well established that a Josephson junction made from conventional spin-singlet superconductors containing ferromagnetic layers can carry spin-triplet supercurrent under certain conditions. The first experimental signature of that…

Exploiting the intrinsic nonlinearity of superconducting Josephson junctions, we propose a scalable circuit with superconducting qubits (SCQs) which is very similar to the successful one now being used for trapped ions. The SCQs are coupled…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-25 Yu-xi Liu , L. F. Wei , J. R. Johansson , J. S. Tsai , Franco Nori

Gate-tunable Josephson junctions embedded in a microwave environment provide a promising platform to in-situ engineer and optimize novel superconducting quantum circuits. The key quantity for the circuit design is the phase-dependent…

Voltage-tunable superconductor-semiconductor devices offer a unique platform to realize dynamic tunability in superconducting quantum circuits. By galvanically connecting a gated InAs-Al Josephson junction to a coplanar waveguide resonator,…

Superconducting quantum circuits typically use capacitive charge-based linear coupling schemes to control interactions between elements such as qubits. While simple and effective, this coupling scheme makes it difficult to satisfy competing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-04 Gihwan Kim , Andreas Butler , Oskar Painter

A Josephson qubit is designed via the application of a tensile strain to a topological insulator surface sandwiched between two s-wave superconductors. The strain applied leads to a shift in the Dirac point without changing the pre-existing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 Colin Benjamin

The superconducting phase qubit combines Josephson junctions into superconducting loops and defines one of the promising solid state device implementations for quantum computing. While conventional designs are based on magnetically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Blatter , V. B. Geshkenbein , L. Ioffe

Superconducting circuits incorporating Josephson tunnel junctions are widely used for fundamental research as well as for applications in fields such as quantum information and magnetometry. The quantum coherent nature of Josephson…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-04 L. Peyruchat , J. Griesmar , J. -D. Pillet , Ç. Ö. Girit

We report on the fabrication and electrical transport properties of gate-tunable superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs), made of semiconducting PbS nanowire contacted with PbIn superconducting electrodes. Applied with a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-08 Hong-Seok Kim , Bum-Kyu Kim , Yiming Yang , Xingyue Peng , Soon-Gul Lee , Dong Yu , Yong-Joo Doh

It is customary to use arrays of superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs) for implementing magnetic field-tunable inductors. Here, we demonstrate an equivalent tunability in a (SQUID-free) array of single Al/AlOx/Al Josephson…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-12-10 Roman Kuzmin , Nitish Mehta , Nicholas Grabon , Vladimir E. Manucharyan

We present a theory of a flux-tunable superconducting qubit, the "Fraunhofer qubit," based on the Fraunhofer interference in a wide ballistic Josephson junction. As magnetic flux threads the junction, the Josephson potential is effectively…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Longyu Ma , Tony Liu , Javad Shabani , Kasra Sardashti , Vladimir E. Manucharyan , Maxim G. Vavilov

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…

Superconducting circuits are exceptionally flexible, enabling many different devices from sensors to quantum computers. Separately, epitaxial semiconductor devices such as spin qubits in silicon offer more limited device variation but…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-03 Yun-Pil Shim , Charles Tahan

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…