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We present a method for fabricating Josephson junctions and superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs) which is based on the local anodization of niobium strip lines 3 to 6.5 nm-thick under the voltage-biased tip of an Atomic…

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This study maps the quantum landscape of superconducting diodes (SDs) \cite{nadeem23} onto the quantum technology architecture, which is currently constrained by fundamental challenges in control and scalability. In the existing…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-17 Muhammad Nadeem , Xiaolin Wang

Niobium nitride (NbN) is a metallic superconductor that is widely used for superconducting electronics due to its high transition temperature ($T_c$) and kinetic inductance. Processing-induced damage negatively affects the performance of…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-04 Azmain A. Hossain , Sela Murphy , David S. Catherall , Anthony J. Ardizzi , Austin J. Minnich

Artificially engineered topological superconductivity has emerged as a viable route to create Majorana modes, exotic quasiparticles which have raised great expectations for storing and manipulating information in topological quantum…

A scalable superconducting architecture for adiabatic quantum computers is proposed. The architecture is based on time-independent, nearest-neighbor interqubit couplings: it can handle any problem in the class NP even in the presence of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 William M. Kaminsky , Seth Lloyd , Terry P. Orlando

The cost of enabling connectivity in Noisy-Intermediate-Scale-Quantum devices is an important factor in determining computational power. We have created a qubit routing algorithm which enables efficient global connectivity in a previously…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-20 Mark Webber , Steven Herbert , Sebastian Weidt , Winfried K. Hensinger

In this paper, we have built a numerical p-n Si/GaAs heterojunction model using a quantum-mechanical tunneling theory with various quantum tunneling interfacial materials including two-dimensional semiconductors such as hexagonal boron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-26 Md Nazmul Hasan , Chenxi Li , Junyu Lai , Jung-Hun Seo

Reduced transmon qubit $T_1$ coherence times have been linked to the amorphous oxide layers formed by thin film capacitors during processing. Because Ta or Ta capped Nb capacitors exhibit overall superior qubit performance to those…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-17 P. Graham Pritchard , James M. Rondinelli

Microscopic inhomogeneity within superconducting films is a critical bottleneck hindering the performance and scalability of quantum circuits. All-nitride Josephson Junctions (JJs) have attracted substantial attention for their potential to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 Prachi Garg , Danqing Wang , Hong X. Tang , Baishakhi Mazumder

The ability to simulate realistically the electronic structure of superconducting materials is important to understand and predict various properties emerging in both the superconducting topological and spintronics realms. We introduce a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-12-19 Uriel A. Aceves Rodriguez , Filipe Guimarães , Samir Lounis

Superconductivity at oxide interfaces has intrigued researchers for decades, yet the underlying pairing mechanism remains elusive. Here we demonstrate that proximity to a ferroelectric quantum critical point dramatically enhances…

Increasing integration scale of superconductor electronics (SCE) requires employing kinetic inductors and self-shunted Josephson junctions (JJs) for miniaturizing inductors and JJs. We have been developing a ten-superconductor-layer…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-12-02 Sergey K. Tolpygo , Ravi Rastogi , David Kim , Terence J. Weir , Neel Parmar , Evan B. Golden

Niobium-zirconium (Nb-Zr) alloy is an old superconductor that is a promising new candidate for superconducting radio-frequency (SRF) cavity applications. Using density-functional and Eliashberg theories, we show that addition of Zr to a Nb…

Topological superconductivity is a state of matter that can host Majorana modes, the building blocks of a topological quantum computer. Many experimental platforms predicted to show such a topological state rely on proximity-induced…

Proximity-induced superconductivity in three dimensional (3D) topological insulators forms a new quantum phase of matter and accommodates exotic quasiparticles such as Majorana bound states. One of the biggest drawbacks of the commonly…

Rock-salt type niobium nitride ($\delta$-NbN) is a well-known superconductor having superconducting transition temperature (Tc) $\approx$ 18\,K and a large superconducting gap $\approx$3\,meV. The Tc of $\delta$-NbN thin film exhibits a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-10-12 Shailesh Kalal , Sanjay Nayak , Akhil Tayal , Jens Birch , Rajeev Rawat , Mukul Gupta

Materials imperfections in Nniobium based superconducting quantum circuits, in particular, two-level-system (TLS) defects, are a major source of decoherence, ultimately limiting the performance of quantum computation and sensing. Thus,…

We report on the first realization of Nb-based \textit{all-metallic} gated Dayem nano-bridge field-effect transistors (Nb-FETs). These Josephson devices operate up to a temperature of $\sim 3$ K, and exhibit full suppression of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Giorgio De Simoni , Claudio Puglia , Francesco Giazotto

Shallow nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond are promising quantum sensors but suffer from noise-induced short coherence times due to bulk and surface impurities. We present interfacial engineering via oxygen termination and graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-04 Wing Ki Lo , Yaowen Zhang , Ho Yin Chow , Jiahao Wu , Man Yin Leung , Kin On Ho , Xuliang Du , Yifan Chen , Yang Shen , Ding Pan , Sen Yang

The realization of a scalable quantum information processor has emerged over the past decade as one of the central challenges at the interface of fundamental science and engineering. Much progress has been made towards this goal. Indeed,…