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Josephson parametric amplifiers have become a critical tool in superconducting device physics due to their high gain and quantum-limited noise. Traveling wave parametric amplifiers (TWPAs) promise similar noise performance while allowing…

Superconducting traveling-wave parametric amplifiers (TWPA) have emerged as highly versatile devices, offering broadband amplification with quantum-limited noise performance. They hold significant potential for addressing the readout…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-24 M. T. Bell

We extend the theory for a Josephson junction travelling wave parametric amplifier (TWPA) operating in the three-wave mixing regime and we propose a scheme for achieving high gain. The continuous three-mode model [P. K. Tien, J. Appl. Phys.…

The operating principle of traveling-wave parametric amplifiers is typically understood in terms of the standard coupled mode theory, which describes the evolution of forward propagating waves without any reflections, i.e. for perfect…

Josephson traveling-wave parametric amplifiers (JTWPAs) are wideband, ultralow-noise amplifiers used to enable the readout of superconducting qubits. While individual JTWPAs have achieved high performance, behavior between devices is…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-08-13 Samuel T. Elkin , Michael Haider , Thomas E. Roth

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

Traveling-Wave Parametric Amplifiers (TWPAs) are ubiquitous in superconducting circuit readout, providing high gain with near-quantum-limited noise performance across a wide bandwidth. Their operation, however, relies on a strong microwave…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-16 C. Denney , K. Genter , K. Cicak , J. D. Teufel , J. Aumentado , F. Lecocq , M. Malnou

Superconducting traveling-wave parametric amplifiers (TWPAs) are essential elements for enhancing the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and thus the read-out fidelity of superconducting qubits because of their high gain and near quantum-limited…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-13 Daryoush Shiri , Likai Yang , Saesun Kim , Mohamed A. Hassan , Philip Krantz , Eric T. Holland

A traveling wave parametric amplifier (TWPA) composed of a transmission line made up of a chain of coupled asymmetric superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs) is proposed. The unique nature of this transmission line is that its…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-09-16 M. T. Bell , A. Samolov

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

Traveling-wave parametric amplifiers (TWPAs) have become an essential tool for the readout of quantum circuits and the search for dark matter. We report on the implementation of an rf-SQUID-based Josephson TWPA with an average saturation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-29 Victor Gaydamachenko , Christoph Kissling , Lukas Grünhaupt

Traveling Wave Parametric Amplifiers (TWPAs) are extensively employed in experiments involving weak microwave signals for their highly desirable quantum-limited and broadband characteristics. However, TWPAs' broadband nature comes with the…

We have performed a quantum mechanical analysis of travelling-wave parametric amplifiers (TWPAs) in order to investigate five experimental phenomena related to their operations, namely the effect of impedance mismatch, the presence of upper…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-29 Songyuan Zhao , Stafford Withington

Recent progress in quantum computing and the development of novel detector technologies for astrophysics is driving the need for high-gain, broadband, and quantum-limited amplifiers. We present a purely traveling-wave parametric amplifier…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-27 Nikita Klimovich , Peter Day , Shibo Shu , Byeong Ho Eom , Henry Leduc , Andrew Beyer

Josephson traveling wave parametric amplifiers enable the amplification of weak microwave signals close to the quantum limit with large bandwidth, which has a broad range of applications in superconducting quantum computing and in the…

The relentless scaling of classical microelectronics has been enabled by the precision and reproducibility of deep-ultraviolet (DUV) optical lithography. Implementing large-scale superconducting quantum processors will require cryogenic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Hao Li , Marco Scigliuzzo , Evgenii Guzovskii , Seog-Tae Han , Kyungho Han , Tobias J. Kippenberg

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 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

We develop a concept of the traveling-wave Josephson parametric amplifier exploiting quadratic nonlinearity of a serial array of one-junction SQUIDs embedded in a superconducting transmission line. The external magnetic flux applied to the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-09-20 A. B. Zorin
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