Microwave photonics with superconducting quantum circuits

X Gu, AF Kockum, A Miranowicz, Y Liu, F Nori - Physics Reports, 2017 - Elsevier
In the past 20 years, impressive progress has been made both experimentally and
theoretically in superconducting quantum circuits, which provide a platform for manipulating …

Fifty years of the dynamical Casimir effect

V Dodonov - Physics, 2020 - mdpi.com
Physics | Free Full-Text | Fifty Years of the Dynamical Casimir Effect Next Article in Journal /
Special Issue History and Some Aspects of the Lamb Shift Previous Article in Journal Saga of …

[HTML][HTML] A quantum engineer's guide to superconducting qubits

P Krantz, M Kjaergaard, F Yan, TP Orlando… - Applied physics …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
The aim of this review is to provide quantum engineers with an introductory guide to the
central concepts and challenges in the rapidly accelerating field of superconducting …

Stabilization and operation of a Kerr-cat qubit

A Grimm, NE Frattini, S Puri, SO Mundhada, S Touzard… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Quantum superpositions of macroscopically distinct classical states—so-called Schrödinger
cat states—are a resource for quantum metrology, quantum communication and quantum …

Observation of pairwise level degeneracies and the quantum regime of the Arrhenius law in a double-well parametric oscillator

NE Frattini, RG Cortiñas, J Venkatraman, X Xiao, Q Su… - Physical Review X, 2024 - APS
By applying a microwave drive to a specially designed Josephson circuit, we have realized
a double-well model system: a Kerr oscillator submitted to a squeezing force. We have …

Observation of the dynamical Casimir effect in a superconducting circuit

CM Wilson, G Johansson, A Pourkabirian, M Simoen… - nature, 2011 - nature.com
One of the most surprising predictions of modern quantum theory is that the vacuum of
space is not empty. In fact, quantum theory predicts that it teems with virtual particles flitting …

Superconducting microresonators: Physics and applications

J Zmuidzinas - Annu. Rev. Condens. Matter Phys., 2012 - annualreviews.org
Interest in superconducting microresonators has grown dramatically over the past decade.
Resonator performance has improved substantially through the use of improved geometries …

Colloquium: Stimulating uncertainty: Amplifying the quantum vacuum <?format ?>with superconducting circuits

PD Nation, JR Johansson, MP Blencowe, F Nori - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2012 - APS
The ability to generate particles from the quantum vacuum is one of the most profound
consequences of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. Although the significance of vacuum …

Dissipation and ultrastrong coupling in circuit QED

F Beaudoin, JM Gambetta, A Blais - … Review A—Atomic, Molecular, and Optical …, 2011 - APS
Cavity and circuit QED study light-matter interaction at its most fundamental level. Yet, this
interaction is most often neglected when considering the coupling of this system with an …

Dynamical Casimir effect in a Josephson metamaterial

P Lähteenmäki, GS Paraoanu… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
The zero-point energy stored in the modes of an electromagnetic cavity has experimentally
detectable effects, giving rise to an attractive interaction between the opposite walls, the …