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Publications (9)

quant-ph2025

High-Q cavity coupled to a high permittivity dielectric resonator for sensing applications

Shahnam Gorgi Zadeh, Alberto Ghirri, Sergio Pagano +3

The use of high-quality factor resonators is of undoubted interest for high-precision measurements and for applications in quantum technologies. Novel types of microwave sensors ca…

physics.ins-det2023

The future search for low-frequency axions and new physics with the FLASH resonant cavity experiment at Frascati National Laboratories

David Alesini, Danilo Babusci, Paolo Beltrame +25

We present a proposal for a new experiment, the FINUDA magnet for Light Axion SearcH (FLASH), a large resonant-cavity haloscope in a high static magnetic field which is planned to…

cond-mat.supr-con2024

Nonlinear Behavior of Josephson Traveling Wave Parametric Amplifiers

Claudio Guarcello, Felix Ahrens, Guerino Avallone +40

Recent advancements in quantum technologies and advanced detection experiments have underscored the pressing need for the detection of exceedingly weak signals within the microwave…

hep-ex2025

Search for post-inflationary QCD axions with a quantum-limited tunable microwave receiver

Giosuè Sardo Infirri, David Alesini, Caterina Braggio +22

A search for cosmological axions has been performed by scanning a frequency region of MHz centered at about GHz, corresponding to an axion mass eV.…

astro-ph.IM2026

Global detector network to search for high-frequency gravitational waves (GravNet): conceptual design

Dorian Amaral, Diego Blas, Yuliia Borysenkova +30

We propose GravNet (Global detector network to search for high-frequency gravitational waves), a novel experimental scheme enabling the search for gravitational waves in the MHz to…

quant-ph2024

Broadband parametric amplification in DARTWARS

Marco Faverzani, Pietro Campana, Rodolfo Carobene +46

Superconducting parametric amplifiers offer the capability to amplify feeble signals with extremely low levels of added noise, potentially reaching quantum-limited amplification. T…

quant-ph2024

Characterization of a Transmon Qubit in a 3D Cavity for Quantum Machine Learning and Photon Counting

Alessandro D'Elia, Boulos Alfakes, Anas Alkhazaleh +19

In this paper we report the use of superconducting transmon qubit in a 3D cavity for quantum machine learning and photon counting applications. We first describe the realization an…

quant-ph2024

Design and simulation of a transmon qubit chip for Axion detection

Roberto Moretti, Hervè Atsè Corti, Danilo Labranca +54

Quantum Sensing is a rapidly expanding research field that finds one of its applications in Fundamental Physics, as the search for Dark Matter. Devices based on superconducting qub…

quant-ph2024

Development of KI-TWPAs for the DARTWARS project

Felix Ahrens, Elena Ferri, Guerino Avallone +40

Noise at the quantum limit over a broad bandwidth is a fundamental requirement for future cryogenic experiments for neutrino mass measurements, dark matter searches and Cosmic Micr…