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Josephson junction parametric amplifiers are playing a crucial role in the readout chain in superconducting quantum information experiments. However, their integration with current 3D cavity implementations poses the problem of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-23 A. Narla , K. M. Sliwa , M. Hatridge , S. Shankar , L. Frunzio , R. J. Schoelkopf , M. H. Devoret

An intrinsic Josephson junction has been successfully fabricated without any micro-fabrication technique. Two Bi2212 whiskers were crossed with one another and joined by post-annealing. The inter-whisker electrical transport properties were…

Josephson junctions and junction arrays are well studied devices in superconductivity. With external magnetic fields one can modulate the phase in a long junction and create traveling, solitonic waves of magnetic flux, called fluxons.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. Walser , E. Goldobin , O. Crasser , D. Koelle , R. Kleiner , W. P. Schleich

The dynamics of overdamped Josephson junctions under varying microwave-driving conditions have been studied through numerical simulations using the resistively-shunted junction (RSJ) model, with a focus on primary voltage metrology…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-08-19 Paolo Durandetto

The continuous miniaturisation of metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) from long- to short-channel architectures has advanced beyond the predictions of Moore's Law. Continued advances in semiconductor electronics,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-30 Yusheng Xiong , Kaveh Delfanazari

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 develop a technique to overcome phase-mismatch in Josephson-junction traveling wave parametric amplifiers in order to achieve high gain over a broad bandwidth. Using "resonant phase matching," we design a compact superconducting device…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-10-15 Kevin O'Brien , Chris Macklin , Irfan Siddiqi , Xiang Zhang

Scaling of quantum computers to fault-tolerant levels relies critically on the integration of energy-efficient, stable, and reproducible qubit control and readout electronics. In comparison to traditional semiconductor control electronics…

We demonstrate a high-frequency generator operating at ~200GHz based on flipping a semifluxon in a Josephson junction of moderate normalized length. The semifluxon spontaneously appears at the $\pi$ discontinuity of the Josephson phase…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-02-14 M. Paramonov , M. Yu. Fominsky , V. P. Koshelets , B. Neumeier , D. Koelle , R. Kleiner , E. Goldobin

We report low temperature, microwave transmission measurements on a new switchable and tunable class of nonlinear metamaterials. A wireless two dimensional array of Josephson junctions (JJ) is probed as a metamaterial where each plaquette…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-01-26 L. L. A. Adams

Due to their unique properties as lossless, nonlinear circuit elements, Josephson junctions lie at the heart of superconducting quantum information processing. Previously, we demonstrated a two-layer, submicrometer-scale overlap junction…

Noisy voltage sources can be a limiting factor for fundamental physics experiments as well as for device applications in quantum information, mesoscopic circuits, magnetometry, and other fields. The best commercial DC voltage sources can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-05 J. -L. Smirr , P. Manset , Ç. Ö. Girit

We introduce a simplified fabrication technique for Josephson junctions and demonstrate superconducting Xmon qubits with $T_1$ relaxation times averaging above 50$~\mu$s ($Q>$1.5$\times$ 10$^6$). Current shadow-evaporation techniques for…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-02-24 A. Osman , J. Simon , A. Bengtsson , S. Kosen , P. Krantz , D. Perez , M. Scigliuzzo , Jonas Bylander , A. Fadavi Roudsari

Two superconductors coupled by a weak link support an equilibrium Josephson electrical current which depends on the phase difference $\varphi$ between the superconducting condensates [1]. Yet, when a temperature gradient is imposed across…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-25 Antonio Fornieri , Giuliano Timossi , Pauli Virtanen , Paolo Solinas , Francesco Giazotto

Fluxonium qubits are recognized for their high coherence times and high operation fidelities, attributed to their unique design incorporating a superinductor, which is typically implemented using an array of over 100 Josephson junctions.…

According to the statistical distribution laws, all the elementary particles in the real 3+1-dimensional world must and only be chosen as either bosons or fermions, without exception and not both. Here, we experimentally verified that a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 P. H. Ouyang , S. R. He , Y. Z. Wang , Y. Q. Chai , J. X. He , H. Chang , L. F. Wei

We investigate one-dimensional Josephson junction arrays with generalized unit cells as a circuit approach to engineer microwave band gaps. An array described by a lattice with a basis can be designed to have a gap in the electromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Carsten Hutter , Erik A. Tholén , Kai Stannigel , Jack Lidmar , David Haviland

By irradiating with a single ultrafast laser pulse a superconducting electrode of a Josephson junction it is possible to drive the quasiparticles (qp's) distribution strongly out of equilibrium. The behavior of the Josephson device can,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 P. Lucignano , G. Rotoli , E. Santamato , A. Tagliacozzo

New resonance steps are found in the experimental current-voltage characteristics of long, discrete, one-dimensional Josephson junction arrays with open boundaries and in an external magnetic field. The junctions are underdamped, connected…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-30 A. E. Duwel , S. Watanabe , E. Trias , T. P. Orlando , H. S. J. van der Zant , S. H. Strogatz

Axions detection requires the ultimate sensitivity down to the single photon limit. In the microwave region this corresponds to energies in the yJ range. This extreme sensitivity has to be combined with an extremely low dark count rate,…