Publications (12)
Searches for New Particles, Dark Matter, and Gravitational Waves with SRF Cavities
Asher Berlin, Sergey Belomestnykh, Diego Blas +33
This is a Snowmass white paper on the utility of existing and future superconducting cavities to probe fundamental physics. Superconducting radio frequency (SRF) cavity technology…
An Improved Bound on Nonlinear Quantum Mechanics using a Cryogenic Radio Frequency Experiment
Oleksandr Melnychuk, Bianca Giaccone, Nicholas Bornman +9
There are strong arguments that quantum mechanics may be nonlinear in its dynamics. A discovery of nonlinearity would hint at a novel understanding of the interplay between gravity…
Overlap junctions for superconducting quantum electronics and amplifiers
Mustafa Bal, Junling Long, Ruichen Zhao +10
Due to their unique properties as lossless, nonlinear circuit elements, Josephson junctions lie at the heart of superconducting quantum information processing. Previously, we demon…
Ultracoherent superconducting cavity-based multiqudit platform with error-resilient control
Taeyoon Kim, Tanay Roy, Xinyuan You +26
Realizing the promise of quantum computing requires simultaneously increasing Hilbert-space size and coherence times. While qubit-based architectures have long been the dominant pa…
Improved Dark Photon Sensitivity from the Dark SRF Experiment
Saarik Kalia, Zhen Liu, Bianca Giaccone +15
We report the refined dark-photon exclusion bound from Dark SRF's pathfinder run. Our new result is driven by improved theoretical modeling of frequency instability in high-quality…
Deepest sensitivity to wavelike dark photon dark matter with superconducting radio frequency cavities
Raphael Cervantes, Jose Aumentado, Caterina Braggio +9
Wavelike, bosonic dark matter candidates like axions and dark photons can be detected using microwave cavities known as haloscopes. Traditionally, haloscopes consist of tunable cop…
Demonstrating magnetic field robustness and reducing temporal T1 noise in transmon qubits through magnetic field engineering
Bektur Abdisatarov, Tanay Roy, Daniel Bafia +10
The coherence of superconducting transmon qubits is often disrupted by fluctuations in the energy relaxation time (T1), limiting their performance for quantum computing. While back…
Design of axion and axion dark matter searches based on ultra high Q SRF cavities
Bianca Giaccone, Asher Berlin, Ivan Gonin +13
The Superconducting Quantum Materials and Systems center is developing searches for dark photons, axions and ALPs with the goal of improving upon the current state-of-the-art sensi…
Disentangling the Impact of Quasiparticles and Two-Level Systems on the Statistics of Superconducting Qubit Lifetime
Shaojiang Zhu, Xinyuan You, Ugur Alyanak +8
Temporal fluctuations in the superconducting qubit lifetime, , bring up additional challenges in building a fault-tolerant quantum computer. While the exact mechanisms remain…
Evaluating radiation impact on transmon qubits in above and underground facilities
Francesco De Dominicis, Tanay Roy, Ambra Mariani +20
Superconducting qubits can be sensitive to abrupt energy deposits caused by cosmic rays and ambient radioactivity. While previous studies have explored correlated effects in time a…
Phase-controlled improvement of photon lifetime in coupled superconducting cavities
Changqing Wang, Oleksandr S Melnychuk, Crispin Contreras-Martinez +9
High-quality cavities are crucial for various fundamental physical studies and applications. Here we find that by coupling two cavities directly or via a phase-tunable coupling cha…
Systematic Improvements in Transmon Qubit Coherence Enabled by Niobium Surface Encapsulation
Mustafa Bal, Akshay A. Murthy, Shaojiang Zhu +37
We present a novel transmon qubit fabrication technique that yields systematic improvements in T relaxation times. We fabricate devices using an encapsulation strategy that inv…