Approaches to developing large-scale superconducting quantum processors must cope with
the numerous microscopic degrees of freedom that are ubiquitous in solid-state devices …

Mesoscopic Josephson junctions, consisting of overlapping superconducting electrodes
separated by a nanometre-thin oxide layer, provide a precious source of nonlinearity for …

When a topological insulator is incorporated into a Josephson junction, the system is
predicted to reveal the fractional Josephson effect with a 4π-periodic current–phase relation …

The high kinetic inductance offered by granular aluminum (grAl) has recently been
employed for linear inductors in superconducting high-impedance qubits and kinetic …

We report a superconducting kinetic inductance memory (SKIM) element, which can be
controlled exclusively by the bias supercurrent, without involving magnetic fields and …

We present scanning tunneling microscope (STM) measurements of the local electronic
structure of superconducting granular aluminium films. The STM spectra show a …

Fast discrimination between quantum states of superconducting artificial atoms is an
important ingredient for quantum information processing. In circuit quantum …

We investigate a granular aluminium quantum circuit with an anharmonicity of the order of its
decoherence rate in a three-dimensional microwave cavity. We perform single qubitlike …

Granular aluminum (grAl) is an applied quantum material. We present nano-
superconducting quantum interference devices (nanoSQUIDs) based on grAl thin films …

Superconducting circuits with nonlinear elements such as Josephson tunnel junctions or
kinetic inductance nanowires are the workhorse for microwave quantum and …