YBCO microwave resonators for strong collective coupling with spin ensembles

Abstract

Coplanar microwave resonators made of 330 nm-thick superconducting YBCO have been realized and characterized in a wide temperature ($T$, 2-100 K) and magnetic field ($B$, 0-7 T) range. The quality factor $Q_L$ exceeds 10${}^4$ below 55 K and it slightly decreases for increasing fields, remaining 90$\%$ of $Q_L(B=0)$ for $B=7$ T and $T=2$ K. These features allow the coherent coupling of resonant photons with a spin ensemble at finite temperature and magnetic field. To demonstrate this, collective strong coupling was achieved by using DPPH organic radical placed at the magnetic antinode of the fundamental mode: the in-plane magnetic field is used to tune the spin frequency gap splitting across the single-mode cavity resonance at 7.75 GHz, where clear anticrossings are observed with a splitting as large as $\sim 82$ MHz at $T=2$ K. The spin-cavity collective coupling rate is shown to scale as the square root of the number of active spins in the ensemble.

to appear in Appl. Phys. Lett

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