The superconducting quasicharge qubit

IV Pechenezhskiy, RA Mencia, LB Nguyen, YH Lin… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
The non-dissipative nonlinearity of Josephson junctions converts macroscopic
superconducting circuits into artificial atoms, enabling some of the best-controlled qubits …

Evidence of dual Shapiro steps in a Josephson junction array

N Crescini, S Cailleaux, W Guichard, C Naud… - Nature Physics, 2023 - nature.com
The modern primary voltage standard is based on the ac Josephson effect and the ensuing
Shapiro steps, where a microwave tone applied to a Josephson junction yields a constant …

Surpassing the resistance quantum with a geometric superinductor

M Peruzzo, A Trioni, F Hassani, M Zemlicka… - Physical Review Applied, 2020 - APS
Superinductors have a characteristic impedance exceeding the resistance quantum RQ≈
6.45 k Ω, which leads to a suppression of ground-state charge fluctuations. Applications …

Hybrid rf SQUID qubit based on high kinetic inductance

JT Peltonen, P Coumou, ZH Peng, TM Klapwijk… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
We report development and microwave characterization of rf SQUID (Superconducting
QUantum Interference Device) qubits, consisting of an aluminium-based Josephson junction …

On-chip ac driving for dual Shapiro steps

D Scheer, F Hassler - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
A single Josephson junction in the phase-slip regime exhibits Bloch oscillations in the
voltage when biased with a dc current I dc. The frequency of the oscillation is given by π I …

Perturbative fluctuation dissipation relation for nonequilibrium finite-frequency noise in quantum circuits

B Roussel, P Degiovanni, I Safi - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
We develop a general perturbative computation of finite-frequency quantum noise that
applies, in particular, to both good or weakly transmitting strongly correlated conductors …

Quantized current steps due to the synchronization of microwaves with Bloch oscillations in small Josephson junctions

RS Shaikhaidarov, KH Kim, J Dunstan… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Synchronization of Bloch oscillations in small Josephson junctions (JJs) under microwave
radiation, which leads to current quantization, has been proposed as an effect that is dual to …

Charge control of blockade of Cooper pair tunneling in highly disordered TiN nanowires in an inductive environment

SE De Graaf, R Shaikhaidarov, T Lindström… - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
A central problem in understanding the superconductor-insulator transition in disordered
superconductors is that the properties of grains and intergrain medium cannot be …

Dual Shapiro steps of a phase-slip junction in the presence of a parasitic capacitance

L Arndt, A Roy, F Hassler - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
Bloch oscillations in a single Josephson junction in the phase-slip regime relate current to
frequency. They can be measured by applying a periodic drive to a dc-biased, small …

Driven quantum circuits and conductors: A unifying perturbative approach

I Safi - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
We develop and exploit an out-of-equilibrium theory, valid in arbitrary dimensions, which
does not require initial thermalization. It is perturbative with respect to a weak time …