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Publications (21)

quant-ph2022

Electron-spin spectral diffusion in an erbium doped crystal at millikelvin temperatures

Milos Rančić, Marianne Le Dantec, Sen Lin +9

Erbium-doped crystals offer a versatile platform for hybrid quantum devices because they combine magnetically-sensitive electron-spin transitions with telecom-wavelength optical tr…

quant-ph2024

Cyclically operated Single Microwave Photon Counter with sensitivity

Léo Balembois, Jaime Travesedo, Louis Pallegoix +7

Single photon detection played an important role in the development of quantum optics. Its implementation in the microwave domain is challenging because the photon energy is 5 orde…

cond-mat.mes-hall2017

Design of a Cooper pair box electrometer for application to solid-state and astroparticle physics

Leandro Tosi, Denis Vion, Hélène le Sueur

We describe the design and principle of operation of a fast and sensitive electrometer operated at millikelvin temperatures, which aims at replacing conventional semiconducting cha…

quant-ph2024

Individual solid-state nuclear spin qubits with coherence exceeding seconds

James O'Sullivan, Jaime Travesedo, Louis Pallegoix +14

The ability to coherently control and read out qubits with long coherence times in a scalable system is a crucial requirement for any quantum processor. Nuclear spins in the solid…

quant-ph2023

Single electron-spin-resonance detection by microwave photon counting

Zhiren Wang, Léo Balembois, Milos Rančić +10

Electron spin resonance (ESR) spectroscopy is the method of choice for characterizing paramagnetic impurities, with applications ranging from chemistry to quantum computing, but it…

cond-mat.supr-con2011

The Bright Side of Coulomb Blockade

Max Hofheinz, Fabien Portier, Quentin Baudouin +5

We explore the photonic (bright) side of dynamical Coulomb blockade (DCB) by measuring the radiation emitted by a dc voltage-biased Josephson junction embedded in a microwave reson…

quant-ph2016

Manipulating Fock states of a harmonic oscillator while preserving its linearity

Kristinn Juliusson, Simon Bernon, Xin Zhou +7

We present a new scheme for controlling the quantum state of a harmonic oscillator by coupling it to an anharmonic multilevel system (MLS) with first to second excited state transi…

quant-ph2025

Noise Mitigation in Single Microwave Photon Counting by Cascaded Quantum Measurements

Alexandre S. May, Leo Sutevski, Jeanne Solard +7

While single-photon counting is routinely achieved in the optical domain, operational single microwave photon detectors (SMPDs) have only recently been demonstrated. SMPDs are crit…

cond-mat.mes-hall2014

Tunable microwave impedance matching to a high impedance source using a Josephson metamaterial

Carles Altimiras, Olivier Parlavecchio, Philippe Joyez +4

We report the efficient coupling of a microwave circuit to a high impedance conductor. We use an impedance transformer consisting of a co-planar resonator whose inn…

cond-mat.mes-hall2014

Flux Qubits with Long Coherence Times for Hybrid Quantum Circuits

Michael Stern, Gianluigi Catelani, Yuimaru Kubo +5

We present measurements of superconducting flux qubits embedded in a three dimensional copper cavity. The qubits are fabricated on a sapphire substrate and are measured by coupling…

quant-ph2019

Radiative cooling of a spin ensemble

Bartolo Albanese, Sebastian Probst, Vishal Ranjan +8

Physical systems reach thermal equilibrium through energy exchange with their environment, and for spins in solids the relevant environment is almost always the host lattice in whi…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019

Pulsed electron spin resonance spectroscopy in the Purcell regime

Vishal Ranjan, Sebastian Probst, Bartolo Albanese +8

When spin relaxation is governed by spontaneous emission of a photon into the resonator used for signal detection (the Purcell effect), the relaxation time depends on the spi…

quant-ph2010

Single-shot qubit readout in circuit Quantum Electrodynamics

François Mallet, Florian R. Ong, Agustin Palacios-Laloy +4

The future development of quantum information using superconducting circuits requires Josephson qubits [1] with long coherence times combined to a high-fidelity readout. Major prog…

quant-ph2026

Enhancing the sensitivity of single microwave photon detection with bandwidth tunability

Louis Pallegoix, Jaime Travesedo, Alexandre S. May +4

We report on the characteristics of a microwave photon counter device based on a superconducting transmon qubit. Its design is similar to [arXiv:2307.03614], with an additional ban…

quant-ph2021

Twenty-three millisecond electron spin coherence of erbium ions in a natural-abundance crystal

Marianne Le Dantec, Miloš Rančić, Sen Lin +12

Erbium ions doped into crystals have unique properties for quantum information processing, because of their optical transition at 1.5 m and of the large magnetic moment of thei…

quant-ph2021

Detecting spins with a microwave photon counter

Emanuele Albertinale, Léo Balembois, Eric Billaud +7

Quantum emitters respond to resonant illumination by radiating electromagnetic fields. A component of these fields is phase-coherent with the driving tone, while another one is inc…

quant-ph2020

Electron Spin Resonance spectroscopy with femtoliter detection volume

Vishal Ranjan, Sebastian Probst, Bartolo Albanese +5

We report electron spin resonance measurements of donors in silicon at millikelvin temperatures using a superconducting planar micro-resonator and a Josephson Parametric Ampli…

quant-ph2010

Experimental violation of a Bell's inequality in time with weak measurement

Agustin Palacios-Laloy, François Mallet, François Nguyen +4

The violation of J. Bell's inequality with two entangled and spatially separated quantum two- level systems (TLS) is often considered as the most prominent demonstration that natur…

quant-ph2024

Month-long-lifetime microwave spectral holes in an erbium-doped scheelite crystal at millikelvin temperature

Zhiren Wang, Sen Lin, Marianne Le Dantec +9

Rare-earth-ion (REI) ensembles in crystals have remarkable optical and spin properties characterized by narrow homogeneous linewidths relative to the inhomogeneous ensemble broaden…

quant-ph2022

Microwave fluorescence detection of spin echoes

Eric Billaud, Leo Balembois, Marianne Le Dantec +9

Counting the microwave photons emitted by an ensemble of electron spins when they relax radiatively has recently been proposed as a sensitive method for electron paramagnetic reson…

quant-ph2010

Single-shot qubit readout in circuit Quantum Electrodynamics

François Mallet, Florian R. Ong, Agustin Palacios-Laloy +4

The future development of quantum information using superconducting circuits requires Josephson qubits with long coherence times combined to a high-delity readout. Major progress i…