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Double-Pumped Kerr Parametric Amplifier Beyond the Gain-Bandwidth Limit
Nicolas Zapata, Najmeh Etehadi Abari, Mitchell Field +5
Superconducting standingwave parametric amplifiers are crucial for the readout of microwave quantum devices. Despite significant improvements in recent years, the need to operat…
Low crosstalk modular flip-chip architecture for coupled superconducting qubits
Soeren Ihssen, Simon Geisert, Gabriel Jauma +10
We present a flip-chip architecture for an array of coupled superconducting qubits, in which circuit components reside inside individual microwave enclosures. In contrast to other…
Pure kinetic inductance coupling for cQED with flux qubits
Simon Geisert, Soeren Ihssen, Patrick Winkel +11
We demonstrate a qubit-readout architecture where the dispersive coupling is entirely mediated by a kinetic inductance. This allows us to engineer the dispersive shift of the reado…
Demonstrating a superconducting dual-rail cavity qubit with erasure-detected logical measurements
Kevin S. Chou, Tali Shemma, Heather McCarrick +31
A critical challenge in developing scalable error-corrected quantum systems is the accumulation of errors while performing operations and measurements. One promising approach is to…
Observation of Josephson Harmonics in Tunnel Junctions
Dennis Willsch, Dennis Rieger, Patrick Winkel +27
Approaches to developing large-scale superconducting quantum processors must cope with the numerous microscopic degrees of freedom that are ubiquitous in solid-state devices. State…
Dual-rail encoding with superconducting cavities
James D. Teoh, Patrick Winkel, Harshvardhan K. Babla +15
The design of quantum hardware that reduces and mitigates errors is essential for practical quantum error correction (QEC) and useful quantum computation. To this end, we introduce…
Two-level system hyperpolarization using a quantum Szilard engine
Martin Spiecker, Patrick Paluch, Nicolas Gosling +16
The innate complexity of solid state physics exposes superconducting quantum circuits to interactions with uncontrolled degrees of freedom degrading their coherence. By using a sim…
Gralmonium: Granular Aluminum Nano-Junction Fluxonium Qubit
D. Rieger, S. Günzler, M. Spiecker +7
Mesoscopic Josephson junctions (JJs), consisting of overlapping superconducting electrodes separated by a nanometer thin oxide layer, provide a precious source of nonlinearity for…
Operating in a deep underground facility improves the locking of gradiometric fluxonium qubits at the sweet spots
Daria Gusenkova, Francesco Valenti, Martin Spiecker +14
We demonstrate flux-bias locking and operation of a gradiometric fluxonium artificial atom using two symmetric granular aluminum (grAl) loops to implement the superinductor. The gr…
Superconducting microwave magnetometer for absolute flux detection
Simon Günzler, Patrick Winkel, Dennis Rieger +5
Superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs) are among the most sensitive detectors for out-of-plane magnetic field components. However, due to their periodic response wit…
Minimizing the discrimination time for quantum states of an artificial atom
Ivan Takmakov, Patrick Winkel, Farshad Foroughi +9
Fast discrimination between quantum states of superconducting artificial atoms is an important ingredient for quantum information processing. In circuit quantum electrodynamics, in…
Quantum non-demolition dispersive readout of a superconducting artificial atom using large photon numbers
Daria Gusenkova, Martin Spiecker, Richard Gebauer +13
Reading out the state of superconducting artificial atoms typically relies on dispersive coupling to a readout resonator. For a given system noise temperature, increasing the circu…
Superconducting granular aluminum resonators resilient to magnetic fields up to 1 Tesla
K. Borisov, D. Rieger, P. Winkel +8
High kinetic inductance materials constitute a valuable resource for superconducting quantum circuits and hybrid architectures. Superconducting granular aluminum (grAl) reaches kin…
State preparation of a fluxonium qubit with feedback from a custom FPGA-based platform
Richard Gebauer, Nick Karcher, Daria Gusenkova +12
We developed a versatile integrated control and readout instrument for experiments with superconducting quantum bits (qubits), based on a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) platf…
Implementation of a transmon qubit using superconducting granular aluminum
Patrick Winkel, Kiril Borisov, Lukas Grünhaupt +6
The high kinetic inductance offered by granular aluminum (grAl) has recently been employed for linear inductors in superconducting high-impedance qubits and kinetic inductance dete…
Non-degenerate parametric amplifiers based on dispersion engineered Josephson junction arrays
Patrick Winkel, Ivan Takmakov, Dennis Rieger +12
Determining the state of a qubit on a timescale much shorter than its relaxation time is an essential requirement for quantum information processing. With the aid of a new type of…
Onset of phase diffusion in high kinetic inductance granular aluminum micro-SQUIDs
Felix Friedrich, Patrick Winkel, Kiril Borisov +4
Superconducting granular aluminum is attracting increasing interest due to its high kinetic inductance and low dissipation, favoring its use in kinetic inductance particle detector…
Interplay between kinetic inductance, non-linearity and quasiparticle dynamics in granular aluminum MKIDs
Francesco Valenti, Fábio Henriques, Gianluigi Catelani +13
Microwave kinetic inductance detectors (MKIDs) are thin film, cryogenic, superconducting resonators. Incident Cooper pair-breaking radiation increases their kinetic inductance, the…
Granular aluminum: A superconducting material for high impedance quantum circuits
Lukas Grünhaupt, Martin Spiecker, Daria Gusenkova +8
Superconducting quantum information processing machines are predominantly based on microwave circuits with relatively low characteristic impedance, of about 100 Ohm, and small anha…
Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics of Granular Aluminum Resonators
N. Maleeva, L. Grünhaupt, T. Klein +12
The introduction of crystalline defects or dopants can give rise to so-called "dirty superconductors", characterized by reduced coherence length and quasiparticle mean free path. I…
Magnetotransport in ferromagnetic Mn5Ge3, Mn5Ge3C0.8, and Mn5Si3C0.8 thin films
Christoph Sürgers, Gerda Fischer, Patrick Winkel +1
The electrical resistivity, anisotropic magnetoresistance (AMR), and anomalous Hall effect of ferromagnetic Mn5Ge3, Mn5Ge3C0.8, and Mn5Si3C0.8 thin films has been investigated. The…