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Kinetic inductance traveling-wave parametric amplifiers (KI-TWPA) have a wide instantaneous bandwidth with near quantum-limited performance and a relatively high dynamic range. Because of this, they are suitable readout devices for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-15 Farzad Faramarzi , Ryan Stephenson , Sasha Sypkens , Byeong H. Eom , Henry LeDuc , Peter Day

We have developed a recently proposed Josephson traveling-wave parametric amplifier with three-wave mixing [A. B. Zorin, Phys. Rev. Applied 6, 034006, 2016]. The amplifier consists of a microwave transmission line formed by a serial array…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-05-09 A. B. Zorin , M. Khabipov , J. Dietel , R. Dolata

We present experimental results on a Josephson parametric amplifier tailored for readout of ultra-sensitive thermal microwave detectors. In particular, we discuss the impact of fabrication details on the performance. We show that the small…

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

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…

Josephson traveling wave parametric amplifiers with heterogeneously spaced junctions are theoretically investigated. We consider unit cells with three junctions and characterize their interaction by spatially displaced fields defined by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-10 M. A. Gali Labarias , T. Yamada , Y. Nakashima , Y. Urade , J. Claramunt , K. Inomata

In this contribution we present JosephsonCircuitsOptimizer.jl (JCO), a simulation and optimization framework based on the JosephsonCircuits.jl library for Julia. It models superconducting circuits that include Josephson junctions (JJs) and…

Squeezing of the electromagnetic vacuum is an essential metrological technique used to reduce quantum noise in applications spanning gravitational wave detection, biological microscopy, and quantum information science. In superconducting…

We developed and experimentally tested a Symmetric Traveling Wave Parametric Amplifier (STWPA) based on Three-Wave Mixing, using the new concept of a Symmetric rf- SQUID. This allows to fully control the second and third order…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-04-23 Alessandro Miano , Oleg A. Mukhanov

Low-noise amplification atmicrowave frequencies has become increasingly important for the research related to superconducting qubits and nanoelectromechanical systems. The fundamental limit of added noise by a phase-preserving amplifier is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-21 Pasi Lähteenmäki , Visa Vesterinen , Juha Hassel , G. S. Paraoanu , Heikki Seppä , Pertti Hakonen

We present a quantum mechanical model for a four-wave mixing Josephson traveling-wave parametric amplifier including substrate losses and associated thermal fluctuations. Under the assumption of a strong undepleted classical pump tone, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-17 Yongjie Yuan , Michael Haider , Johannes A. Russer , Peter Russer , Christian Jirauschek

The advent of ultra-low noise microwave amplifiers revolutionized several research fields demanding quantum-limited technologies. Exploiting a theoretical bimodal description of a linear phase-preserving amplifier, in this contribution we…

Broadband quantum-limited amplifiers are essential for quantum information processing, yet challenges in design and fabrication continue to hinder their widespread applications. Here, we introduce the broadband merged-element Josephson…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-18 Yuting Sun , Xianke Li , Qingyu Wang , Tairong Bai , Xudong Liao , Dong Lan , Jie Zhao , Yang Yu

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

Non-linearity of the current-phase relationship of a Josephson junction is the key resource for a Josephson parametric amplifier (JPA), the only device in which the quantum limit has so far been achieved at microwave frequencies. A standard…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-23 Bogdan A. Kochetov , Arkady Fedorov

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…

Recent progress in solid state quantum information processing has stimulated the search for ultra-low-noise amplifiers and frequency converters in the microwave frequency range, which could attain the ultimate limit imposed by quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 N. Bergeal , F. Schackert , M. Metcalfe , R. Vijay , V. E. Manucharyan , L. Frunzio , D. E. Prober , R. J. Schoelkopf , S. M. Girvin , M. H. Devoret

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…