activity
20192026
most citedReducing the impact of radioactivity on quantum circuits in a deep-underground facility

160 citations · 232 across the 4 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

physics.ins-det2026

Exploring the proximity effect of thin tungsten-aluminum films for phonon-mediated kinetic inductance detectors

G. Del Castello, M. Mancuso, A. Langenkämper +18

Lowering the energy threshold of phonon-mediated kinetic inductance detectors is a key step toward next-generation cryogenic calorimeter arrays with large target mass and high sens…

physics.ins-det2026

Quantitative characterization of superconducting qubits as particle detectors

Francesco De Dominicis, Raja Yasir Mehmood Khan, Dounia L Helis +22

Ionizing radiation is a major source of correlated errors in superconducting quantum processors, yet the mechanisms responsible for the qubit response to particle interactions rema…

physics.ins-det2026

Impact of the position effects in the energy calibration of the BULLKID detector

Matteo Folcarelli, Matteo Cappelli, Giorgio Del Castello +6

BULLKID is a cryogenic solid-state detector based on an array of silicon dice equipped with Kinetic Inductance Detectors (KIDs) for low-mass dark matter searches and coherent elast…

physics.ins-det2026★ 1 cited

Enhanced Athermal Phonon Responsivity in a Kinetic Inductance Detector with Integrated Phonon Collectors

Leonardo Pesce, Alessio Ludovico De Santis, Martino Calvo +10

Cryogenic phonon detectors are adopted in light dark matter searches and coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering experiments as they can achieve low energy thresholds. The pho…

quant-ph2025

A Cryogenic Muon Tagging System Based on Kinetic Inductance Detectors for Superconducting Quantum Processors

Ambra Mariani, Laura Cardani, Mustafa Bal +16

Ionizing radiation has emerged as a potential limiting factor for superconducting quantum processors, inducing quasiparticle bursts and correlated errors that challenge fault-toler…

quant-ph2024

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…

physics.ins-det2021★ 16 cited

Final results of CALDER: Kinetic inductance light detectors to search for rare events

Laura Cardani, Nicola Casali, Ivan Colantoni +6

The next generation of bolometric experiments searching for rave events, in particular for the neutrino-less double beta decay, needs fast, high-sensitivity and easy-to-scale cryog…

cond-mat.supr-con2020★ 160 cited

Reducing the impact of radioactivity on quantum circuits in a deep-underground facility

Laura Cardani, Francesco Valenti, Nicola Casali +20

As quantum coherence times of superconducting circuits have increased from nanoseconds to hundreds of microseconds, they are currently one of the leading platforms for quantum info…

nucl-ex2019★ 55 cited

Evidence of Single State Dominance in the Two-Neutrino Double- Decay of Se-82 with CUPID-0

O. Azzolini, J. W. Beeman, F. Bellini +42

We report on the measurement of the two-neutrino double- decay of Se performed for the first time with cryogenic calorimeters, in the framework of the CUPID-0~experiment.…