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We present an extensive experimental and theoretical study of the proximity effect in InAs nanowires connected to superconducting electrodes. We fabricate and investigate devices with suspended gate-controlled nanowires and nonsuspended…

The superconducting proximity effect in semiconductor nanowires has recently enabled the study of new superconducting architectures, such as gate-tunable superconducting qubits and multiterminal Josephson junctions. As opposed to their…

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Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-13 Kin Chung Fong

The ability to non-dissipatively tune the Josephson coupling energy of Josephson junctions is a useful tool in frequency-tunable qubits. This is typically done by threading magnetic flux through two junctions connected in a loop, a geometry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-26 Maxwell Wisne , Venkat Chandrasekhar

Superconducting parametric amplifiers are commonly fabricated using planar transmission lines with a non-linear inductance provided by either Josephson junctions or the intrinsic kinetic inductance of the thin film. However, Banys et al.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-12-21 Valerio Gilles , Danielius Banys , Mark A. McCulloch , Lucio Piccirillo , Thomas Sweetnam

Integrating conventional superconductors with common III-V semiconductors provides a versatile platform to implement tunable Josephson junctions (JJs) and their applications. We propose that with gate-controlled time-dependent spin-orbit…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-11-09 David Monroe , Mohammad Alidoust , Igor Žutić

A crucial limit to measurement efficiencies of superconducting circuits comes from losses involved when coupling to an external quantum amplifier. Here, we realize a device circumventing this problem by directly embedding a two-level…

We investigate a semiconductor nanowire-based gatemon qubit with epitaxial Al on two facets of the nanowire, allowing gate control of wire density. Two segments have the Al removed, one forming a Josephson junction and the other operating…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-18 Alisa Danilenko , Deividas Sabonis , Georg W. Winkler , Oscar Erlandsson , Peter Krogstrup , Charles M. Marcus

The Josephson junction is the fundamental nonlinear building block of superconducting quantum technologies. Its macroscopic quantum tunneling physics underpins superconducting quantum computing, sensing, and communication, but scaling these…

Circulators and directional amplifiers are crucial non-reciprocal signal routing and processing components involved in microwave readout chains for a variety of applications. They are particularly important in the field of superconducting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-11 K. M. Sliwa , M. Hatridge , A. Narla , S. Shankar , L. Frunzio , R. J. Schoelkopf , M. H. Devoret

Superconductor qubits typically use aluminum-aluminum oxide tunnel junctions to provide the non-linear inductance. Junctions with semiconductor barriers make it possible to vary the superconductor material and explore beyond aluminum. We…

We present an experimental study of nanowire transmons at zero and applied in-plane magnetic field. With Josephson non-linearities provided by the nanowires, our qubits operate at higher magnetic fields than standard transmons. Nanowire…

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

At a superconductor (S)-normal metal (N) junction pairing correlations can "leak-out" into the N region. This proximity effect [1, 2] modifies the system transport properties and can lead to supercurrent flow in SNS junctions [3]. Recent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-03-15 S. Roddaro , A. Pescaglini , D. Ercolani , L. Sorba , F. Giazotto , F. Beltram

Quantum computing systems and fundamental physics experiments using superconducting technologies frequently require signal amplification chains operating near the quantum limit of added noise. Both Josephson parametric amplifiers (JPAs) and…

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

Superconducting qubits are solid state electrical circuits fabricated using techniques borrowed from conventional integrated circuits. They are based on the Josephson tunnel junction, the only non-dissipative, strongly non-linear circuit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. H. Devoret , A. Wallraff , J. M. Martinis

Nature sets fundamental limits regarding how accurate the amplification of analog signals may be. For instance, a linear amplifier unavoidably adds some noise which amounts to half a photon at best. While for most applications much higher…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-15 S. Jebari , F. Blanchet , A. Grimm , D. Hazra , R. Albert , P. Joyez , D. Vion , D. Esteve , F. Portier , M. Hofheinz

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

Full-shell nanowires (a semiconducting core fully wrapped by an epitaxial superconducting shell) have recently been introduced as promising hybrid quantum devices. Despite this, however, their properties when forming a Josephson junction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-04 G. Giavaras , R. Aguado