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In superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs), the superconducting diode effect may be generated by interference of multiple harmonic components in the current-phase relationships (CPRs) of different branches forming SQUID loops.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-16 Wyatt Gibbons , Teng Zhang , Kevin Barrow , Tyler Lindemann , Jukka I. Väyrynen , Michael J. Manfra

Superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs) are state-of-the-art in ultra-sensitive magnetometry; however, conventional SQUID devices are fundamentally limited by the inherently nonlinear and periodic nature of their transfer…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-03-02 Angelo Greco , Giorgio De Simoni , Francesco Giazotto

We study the effect of an external magnetic field on the transport properties of a quantum dot using a recently developed extension of the functional renormalization group approach to non-equilibrium situations. We discuss in particular the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-07-03 Riccardo Gezzi , Andreas Dirks , Thomas Pruschke

We present a scheme to achieve maximally entangled states, controlled phase-shift gate, and SWAP gate for two superconducting-quantum-interference-device (SQUID) qubits, by placing SQUIDs in a microwave cavity. We also show how to transfer…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Chui-Ping Yang , Shih-I Chu , Siyuan Han

Nano-fabricated superconducting quantum interference device (nano-SQUID) is a direct and sensitive flux probe useful for magnetic imaging of quantum materials and mesoscopic devices. Enabled by functionalities of superconductive integrated…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-05-23 B. K. Xiang , S. Y. Wang , Y. F. Wang , J. J. Zhu , H. T. Xu , Y. H. Wang

Superconducting diodes, characterized by the nonreciprocal supercurrent flow, have gained significant attention for their potential in dissipationless electronics. This study presents a superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID)…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-02-28 Xingjun Wu , Ji-Yin Wang , Haitian Su , Shili Yan , Dong Pan , Jianhua Zhao , Po Zhang , H. Q. Xu

We propose a superconducting qubit design, based on a tunable RF-SQUID and nanowire kinetic inductors, which has a dramatically reduced transverse electromagnetic coupling to its environment, so that its excited state should be metastable.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-22 Andrew J. Kerman

Exploiting the intrinsic nonlinearity of superconducting Josephson junctions, we propose a scalable circuit with superconducting qubits (SCQs) which is very similar to the successful one now being used for trapped ions. The SCQs are coupled…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-25 Yu-xi Liu , L. F. Wei , J. R. Johansson , J. S. Tsai , Franco Nori

We investigate the dynamical Casimir effect in a coplanar waveguide (CPW) terminated by a superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID). Changing the magnetic flux through the SQUID parametrically modulates the boundary condition of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-12-07 J. R. Johansson , G. Johansson , C. M. Wilson , Franco Nori

The magnetic field is shown to affect significantly non-equilibrium quasiparticle (QP) distributions under conditions of inverse proximity effect on the remarkable example of a single-electron hybrid turnstile. This effect suppresses the…

We review and discuss some recent developments on the unconventional interaction between superconducting systems and the local gravitational field. While it is known that gravitational perturbations (such as gravitational waves) can affect…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-18 Antonio Gallerati , Giovanni Ummarino

We consider, for the first time, the effects of strong capacitive and inductive coupling between radio frequency Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices (rf SQUIDs) in an overlapping metamaterial geometry when driven by rf flux at and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-06-28 Jingnan Cai , Robin Cantor , Johanne Hizanidis , Nikos Lazarides , Steven M. Anlage

By quickly modifying the shape of the effective potential of a double SQUID flux qubit from a single-well to a double-well condition, we experimentally observe an anomalous behavior, namely an alternance of resonance peaks, in the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-17 F. Chiarello , S. Spilla , M. G. Castellano , C. Cosmelli , A. Messina , R. Migliore , A. Napoli , G. Torrioli

We show that elastic interactions of an array of self-assembled quantum dots in a parent material matrix are markedly distinct from the elastic field created by a single point defect, and can explain the observed abrupt…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Kunert , E. Schoell

We present a general mechanism for large charge and spin Josephson diode effects in strongly spin-polarized superconductor-ferromagnet hybrid structures with a noncoplanar spin texture, formulated in terms of quantum-geometric phases. We…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-11-03 Niklas L. Schulz , Danilo Nikolić , Matthias Eschrig

A phase-slip flux qubit, exactly dual to a charge qubit, is composed of a superconducting loop interrupted by a phase-slip junction. Here we propose a tunable phase-slip flux qubit by replacing the phase-slip junction with a charge-related…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-15 Hu Zhao , Tiefu Li , Jianshe Liu , Wei Chen , J. Q. You

By coupling a harmonic oscillator to a quantum system it is possible to perform a dispersive measurement that is quantum non-demolition (QND), with minimal backaction. A non-linear oscillator has the advantage of measurement gain, but what…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-09-12 O. Naaman , J. Aumentado , L. Friedland , J. S. Wurtele , I. Siddiqi

Quantum system abruptly driven from its stationary phase can reveal nontrivial dynamics upon approaching a new final state. We investigate here such dynamics for a correlated quantum dot sandwiched between the metallic and superconducting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-28 K. Wrześniewski , B. Baran , R. Taranko , T. Domański , I. Weymann

Starting from the reduced dynamical model of a two-junction quantum interference device, a quantum analog of the system has been exhibited, in order to extend the well known properties of this device to the quantum regime. By finding…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 F. Romeo , R. De Luca

A procedure for demonstrating quantum coherence and measuring decoherence times between different fluxoid states of a SQUID by using ``adiabatic inversion'' is discussed. One fluxoid state is smoothly transferred into the other, like a spin…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Silvestrini , L. Stodolsky