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Resonant phase-matched Josephson traveling-wave parametric amplifiers (RPM JTWPAs) play a key role in quantum computing and quantum information applications due to their low-noise, broadband amplification, and quadrature squeezing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 M. A. Gali Labarias , T. Yamada , Y. Nakashima , Y. Urade , K. Inomata

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

Parametric amplification is essential for quantum measurement, enabling the amplification of weak microwave signals with minimal added noise. While Josephson-junction-based amplifiers have become standard in superconducting quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-04 Danial Davoudi , Abdul Mohamed , Shabir Barzanjeh

Superconducting resonators and parametric amplifiers are important components in scientific systems such as kinetic inductance detector arrays, frequency-domain multiplexers for other superconducting bolometers, spin-ensemble based…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-10-18 Songyuan Zhao , Stafford Withington , Christopher Niall Thomas

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…

Superconducting parametric amplifiers are crucial components in microwave quantum circuits for enabling quantum-limited signal readout. The best-performing such amplifiers are often based on Josephson junctions, which however are sensitive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-17 Mingrui Xu , Risheng Cheng , Yufeng Wu , Gangqiang Liu , Hong X. Tang

Broadband quantum-limited parametric amplifiers (PAs) are essential components in quantum information science and technology. Impedance-engineered resonator-based PAs and traveling-wave PAs are the primary approaches to overcome the…

Predicting the performance of traveling-wave parametric amplifiers (TWPAs) based on nonlinear elements like superconducting Josephson junctions (JJs) is vital for qubit read-out in quantum computers. The purpose of this article is twofold:…

We demonstrate a high dynamic range Josephson parametric amplifier (JPA) in which the active nonlinear element is implemented using an array of rf-SQUIDs. The device is matched to the 50 $\Omega$ environment with a Klopfenstein-taper…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-04 T. C. White , Alex Opremcak , George Sterling , Alexander Korotkov , Daniel Sank , Rajeev Acharya , Markus Ansmann , Frank Arute , Kunal Arya , Joseph C. Bardin , Andreas Bengtsson , Alexandre Bourassa , Jenna Bovaird , Leon Brill , Bob B. Buckley , David A. Buell , Tim Burger , Brian Burkett , Nicholas Bushnell , Zijun Chen , Ben Chiaro , Josh Cogan , Roberto Collins , Alexander L. Crook , Ben Curtin , Sean Demura , Andrew Dunsworth , Catherine Erickson , Reza Fatemi , Leslie Flores-Burgos , Ebrahim Forati , Brooks Foxen , William Giang , Marissa Giustina , Alejandro Grajales Dau , Michael C. Hamilton , Sean D. Harrington , Jeremy Hilton , Markus Hoffmann , Sabrina Hong , Trent Huang , Ashley Huff , Justin Iveland , Evan Jeffrey , Márika Kieferová , Seon Kim , Paul V. Klimov , Fedor Kostritsa , John Mark Kreikebaum , David Landhuis , Pavel Laptev , Lily Laws , Kenny Lee , Brian J. Lester , Alexander Lill , Wayne Liu , Aditya Locharla , Erik Lucero , Trevor McCourt , Matt McEwen , Xiao Mi , Kevin C. Miao , Shirin Montazeri , Alexis Morvan , Matthew Neeley , Charles Neill , Ani Nersisyan , Jiun How Ng , Anthony Nguyen , Murray Nguyen , Rebecca Potter , Chris Quintana , Pedram Roushan , Kannan Sankaragomathi , Kevin J. Satzinger , Christopher Schuster , Michael J. Shearn , Aaron Shorter , Vladimir Shvarts , Jindra Skruzny , W. Clarke Smith , Marco Szalay , Alfredo Torres , Bryan Woo , Z. Jamie Yao , Ping Yeh , Juhwan Yoo , Grayson Young , Ningfeng Zhu , Nicholas Zobrist , Yu Chen , Anthony Megrant , Julian Kelly , Ofer Naaman

Degenerate parametric amplifiers (DPAs) exhibit the unique property of phase-sensitive gain and can be used to noiselessly amplify small signals or squeeze field fluctuations beneath the vacuum level. In the microwave domain, these…

Manipulating the propagation of electromagnetic waves through sub-wavelength sized artificial structures is the core function of metamaterials. Resonant structures, such as split ring resonators, play the role of artificial "atoms" and…

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…

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

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

We propose and demonstrate a new read-out technique for a superconducting qubit by dispersively coupling it to a Josephson parametric oscillator. We employ a tunable quarter-wavelength superconducting resonator and modulate its resonant…

Superinductors have become a crucial component in the superconducting circuit toolbox, playing a key role in the development of more robust qubits. Enhancing the performance of these devices can be achieved by suspending the superinductors…

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

It has recently become possible to encode the quantum state of superconducting qubits and the position of nanomechanical oscillators into the states of microwave fields. However, to make an ideal measurement of the state of a qubit, or to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-02-04 M. A. Castellanos-Beltran , K. D. Irwin , G. C. Hilton , L. R. Vale , K. W. Lehnert

High-fidelity quantum non-demolition qubit measurement is critical to error correction and rapid qubit feedback in large-scale quantum computing. High-fidelity readout requires passing a short and strong pulse through the qubit's readout…