activity
20242026
collaborators

10 papers

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Diode Effect in Nonlinear High-Kinetic-Inductance Transmission Line Resonators

Niklas Gaiser, Ciprian Padurariu, Björn Kubala +2

High-kinetic-inductance (HKI) transmission lines provide a promising platform for compact nonlinear superconducting microwave devices. Existing theoretical descriptions are typical…

quant-ph2026

Stroboscopic detection of itinerant microwave photons

Hanna Zeller, Lukas Danner, Max Hofheinz +4

We present a novel scheme to detect itinerant microwave radiation at the single photon level. Using existing Josephson-photonics devices, where two microwave cavities are coupled b…

quant-ph2026

Dressed-State Optomechanics in the Few-Photon Regime

Surangana Sengupta, Björn Kubala, Joachim Ankerhold +1

Efficient optomechanical cooling typically requires high photon occupancy to maximize cooling power, a constraint that generally limits the degree of coherent quantum control avail…

cond-mat.supr-con2026

Signatures of Dynes superconductivity in the THz response of ALD-grown NbN thin films

Frederik Bolle, Yayi Lin, Ozan Saritas +6

The frequency-dependent complex optical conductivity reflects key properties of superconductors, such as the energy gap in the density of states (DOS) and the superfluid density. F…

quant-ph2025

Optomechanical Cooling without Residual Heating

Surangana Sengupta, Björn Kubala, Joachim Ankerhold +1

Resolved-sideband cooling is a standard technique in cavity optomechanics enabling quantum control of mechanical motion, but its performance is ultimately limited by quantum backac…

quant-ph2025

Fast initialization of Bell states with Schrödinger cats in multi-mode systems

Miriam Resch, Ciprian Padurariu, Björn Kubala +1

Schrödinger cat states play an important role for applications in continuous variable quantum information technologies. As macroscopic superpositions they are inherently protected…