Two-level system hyperpolarization using a quantum Szilard engine

M Spiecker, P Paluch, N Gosling, N Drucker… - Nature Physics, 2023 - nature.com
The innate complexity of solid-state physics exposes superconducting quantum circuits to
interactions with uncontrolled degrees of freedom degrading their coherence. By …

Granular aluminium nanojunction fluxonium qubit

D Rieger, S Günzler, M Spiecker, P Paluch, P Winkel… - Nature Materials, 2023 - nature.com
Mesoscopic Josephson junctions, consisting of overlapping superconducting electrodes
separated by a nanometre-thin oxide layer, provide a precious source of nonlinearity for …

Magnetic field-resilient quantum-limited parametric amplifier

M Xu, R Cheng, Y Wu, G Liu, HX Tang - PRX Quantum, 2023 - APS
Superconducting parametric amplifiers are crucial components in microwave quantum
circuits for enabling quantum-limited signal readout. The best-performing such amplifiers are …

Fano interference in microwave resonator measurements

D Rieger, S Günzler, M Spiecker, A Nambisan… - Physical Review …, 2023 - APS
Resonator measurements are a simple but powerful tool to characterize a material's
microwave response. The losses of a resonant mode are quantified by its internal quality …

Evolution of Flux Noise in Superconducting Qubits with Weak Magnetic Fields

DA Rower, L Ateshian, LH Li, M Hays, D Bluvstein… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
The microscopic description of 1/f magnetic flux noise in superconducting circuits has
remained an open question for several decades despite extensive experimental and …

Implementation of a transmon qubit using superconducting granular aluminum

P Winkel, K Borisov, L Grünhaupt, D Rieger… - Physical Review X, 2020 - APS
The high kinetic inductance offered by granular aluminum (grAl) has recently been
employed for linear inductors in superconducting high-impedance qubits and kinetic …

Magnetic field resilient high kinetic inductance superconducting niobium nitride coplanar waveguide resonators

CX Yu, S Zihlmann… - Applied Physics …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
We characterize niobium nitride (NbN) λ/2 coplanar waveguide resonators, which were
fabricated from a 10-nm-thick film on silicon dioxide grown by sputter deposition. For films …

Magnetic Field Resilience of Three-Dimensional Transmons with Thin-Film Josephson Junctions Approaching 1 T

J Krause, C Dickel, E Vaal, M Vielmetter, J Feng… - Physical review applied, 2022 - APS
Magnetic-field-resilient superconducting circuits enable sensing applications and hybrid
quantum computing architectures involving spin or topological qubits and electromechanical …

[HTML][HTML] Performance of high impedance resonators in dirty dielectric environments

JH Ungerer, D Sarmah, A Kononov, J Ridderbos… - EPJ Quantum …, 2023 - Springer
High-impedance resonators are a promising contender for realizing long-distance
entangling gates between spin qubits. Often, the fabrication of spin qubits relies on the use …

Nonlinear Meissner effect in coplanar resonators

J Makita, C Sundahl, G Ciovati, CB Eom… - Physical Review …, 2022 - APS
We investigated the nonlinear Meissner effect (NLME) in Nb 3 Sn thin-film coplanar
resonators by measuring the resonance frequency as a function of a parallel magnetic field …