6 papers
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…
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…