Superconducting nanowires for single‐photon detection: progress, challenges, and opportunities

I Holzman, Y Ivry - Advanced Quantum Technologies, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Single‐photon detectors and nanoscale superconducting devices are two major candidates
for realizing quantum technologies. Superconducting‐nanowire single‐photon detectors …

[HTML][HTML] Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors: A perspective on evolution, state-of-the-art, future developments, and applications

I Esmaeil Zadeh, J Chang, JWN Los, S Gyger… - Applied Physics …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Two decades after their demonstration, superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors
(SNSPDs) have become indispensable tools for quantum photonics as well as for many …

Unconventional applications of superconducting nanowire single photon detectors

T Polakovic, W Armstrong, G Karapetrov, ZE Meziani… - Nanomaterials, 2020 - mdpi.com
Superconducting nanowire single photon detectors are becoming a dominant technology in
quantum optics and quantum communication, primarily because of their low timing jitter and …

Can the double-slit experiment distinguish between quantum interpretations?

A Ayatollah Rafsanjani, MJ Kazemi… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Despite the astonishing successes of quantum mechanics, due to some fundamental
problems such as the measurement problem and quantum arrival time problem, the …

Superconducting nanowires as high-rate photon detectors in strong magnetic fields

T Polakovic, WR Armstrong, V Yefremenko… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Superconducting nanowire single photon detectors are capable of single-photon detection
across a large spectral range with near unity detection efficiency, picosecond timing jitter …

The potential and challenges of time-resolved single-photon detection based on current-carrying superconducting nanowires

H Zhang, L Xiao, B Luo, J Guo… - Journal of Physics D …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Superconducting nanowire-based devices are being hailed as promising single-photon
detectors that exhibit excellent combined properties. In particular, their unrivalled time …

Multifunctional superconducting nanowire quantum sensors

BJ Lawrie, CE Marvinney, YY Pai, MA Feldman… - Physical Review …, 2021 - APS
Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) offer high-quantum-efficiency
and low-dark-count-rate single-photon detection. In a growing number of cases, large …

Fluctuation mechanisms in superconductors

H Bartolf - … in Superconductors: Nanowire Single-Photon Counters …, 2015 - Springer
Thermodynamic fluctuations in superconductors have been studied for many decades
because they influence basically all properties of a superconductor, eg conductivity …

Efficient low-energy single-electron detection using a large-area superconducting microstrip

M Shigefuji, A Osada, M Yabuno, S Miki, H Terai… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Superconducting strip single-photon detectors (SSPDs) are excellent tools not only for
single-photon detection but also for single-particle detection owing to their high detection …

Beam tests of SNSPDs with 120 GeV protons

S Lee, T Polakovic, W Armstrong, A Dibos… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2024 - Elsevier
We report the test results for a 120 GeV proton beam incident on superconducting nanowire
particle detectors of various wire sizes. NbN devices with the same sensitive area were …