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most citedTunneling dynamics between superconducting bound states at the atomic limit

59 citations · 403 across the 32 of their papers we have counts for

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32 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 +3

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★ 2 cited

Quantum Coherence in Superconducting Vortex States

Ameya Nambisan, Simon Günzler, Dennis Rieger +13

Abrikosov vortices, where the superconducting gap is completely suppressed in the core, are dissipative, semi-classical entities that impact applications from high-current-density…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Amplification and Detection of Single Itinerant Microwave Photons

Lukas Danner, Max Hofheinz, Nicolas Bourlet +3

Single-photon detectors are an essential part of the toolbox of modern quantum optics for implementing quantum technologies and enabling tests of fundamental physics. The low energ…

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…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024

Quantum microwaves: stabilizing squeezed light by phase locking

Lukas Danner, Florian Höhe, Ciprian Padurariu +2

Bright sources of quantum microwave light are an important building block for various quantum technological applications. Josephson junctions coupled to microwave cavities are a pa…

cond-mat.supr-con2023

Quartet currents in a biased three-terminal diffusive Josephson junction

T. Jonckheere, J. Rech, C. Padurariu +3

Biasing a three-terminal Josephson junction (TTJ) with symmetrical voltages leads to new kinds of DC currents, namely quartet Josephson currents and phase-dependent multip…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023

Quantum Synchronization in Presence of Shot Noise

Florian Höhe, Lukas Danner, Ciprian Padurariu +3

Synchronization is a widespread phenomenon encountered in many natural and engineered systems with nonlinear classical dynamics. How synchronization concepts and mechanisms transfe…

cond-mat.supr-con2023★ 11 cited

Tracking a Spin-Polarized Superconducting Bound State across a Quantum Phase Transition

Sujoy Karan, Haonan Huang, Alexander Ivanovic +5

The magnetic exchange coupling between magnetic impurities and a superconductor induce so-called Yu-Shiba-Rusinov (YSR) states which undergo a quantum phase transition (QPT) upon i…

cond-mat.supr-con2023★ 6 cited

Microwave Excitation of Atomic Scale Superconducting Bound States

Janis Siebrecht, Haonan Huang, Piotr Kot +6

Magnetic impurities on superconductors lead to bound states within the superconducting gap, so called Yu-Shiba-Rusinov (YSR) states. They are parity protected, which enhances their…

cond-mat.supr-con2022★ 12 cited

Universal scaling of tunable Yu-Shiba-Rusinov states across the quantum phase transition

Haonan Huang, Sujoy Karan, Ciprian Padurariu +5

Quantum magnetic impurities give rise to a wealth of phenomena attracting tremendous research interest in recent years. On a normal metal, magnetic impurities generate the correlat…

cond-mat.supr-con2021★ 30 cited

Emission of photon multiplets by a dc-biased superconducting circuit

G. C. Ménard, A. Peugeot, C. Padurariu +12

We observe the emission of bunches of photons by a circuit made of a microwave resonator in series with a voltage-biased tunable Josephson junction. The bunches are…

physics.app-ph2021★ 1 cited

Compact Itinerant Microwave Photonics with Superconducting High-Kinetic Inductance Microstrips

Samuel Goldstein, Guy Pardo, Naftali Kirsh +5

Microwave photonics is a remarkably powerful system for quantum simulation and technologies, but its integration in superconducting circuits, superior in many aspects, is constrain…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021★ 16 cited

Injection locking and synchronization in Josephson photonics devices

Lukas Danner, Ciprian Padurariu, Joachim Ankerhold +1

Injection locking can stabilize a source of radiation, leading to an efficient suppression of noise-induced spectral broadening and therefore, to a narrow spectrum. The technique i…

cond-mat.supr-con2021★ 35 cited

Superconducting Quantum Interference at the Atomic Scale

S. Karan, H. Huang, C. Padurariu +9

A single spin in a Josephson junction can reverse the flow of the supercurrent. At mesoscopic length scales, such -junctions are employed in various instances from finding the p…

cond-mat.supr-con2020

Spin-dependent tunneling between individual superconducting bound states

Haonan Huang, Jacob Senkpiel, Ciprian Padurariu +9

Magnetic impurities on superconductors induce discrete bound levels inside the superconducting gap, known as Yu-Shiba-Rusinov (YSR) states. YSR levels are fully spin-polarized such…

cond-mat.mes-hall2020★ 22 cited

Noise and full counting statistics of a Cooper pair splitter

Nicklas Walldorf, Fredrik Brange, Ciprian Padurariu +1

We investigate theoretically the noise and the full counting statistics of electrons that are emitted from a superconductor into two spatially separated quantum dots by the splitti…

cond-mat.supr-con2019★ 59 cited

Tunneling dynamics between superconducting bound states at the atomic limit

Haonan Huang, Ciprian Padurariu, Jacob Senkpiel +7

Despite plenty of room at the bottom, there is a limit to the miniaturization of every process. For charge transport this is realized by the coupling of single discrete energy leve…

cond-mat.supr-con2019★ 12 cited

Magnetic Impurities on Superconducting Surfaces: Phase Transitions and the Role of Impurity-Substrate Hybridization

Haonan Huang, Robert Drost, Jacob Senkpiel +7

Spin-dependent scattering from magnetic impurities inside a superconductor gives rise to Yu-Shiba-Rusinov (YSR) states within the superconducting gap. As such, YSR states have been…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019★ 1 cited

Hanbury Brown and Twiss Exchange Correlations in Graphene Box

Teemu Elo, Zhenbing Tan, Ciprian Padurariu +4

Quadratic detection in linear mesoscopic transport systems produces cross terms that can be viewed as interference signals reflecting statistical properties of charge carriers. In…

cond-mat.supr-con2018★ 16 cited

Single Channel Josephson Effect in a High Transmission Atomic Contact

Jacob Senkpiel, Simon Dambach, Markus Etzkorn +9

The Josephson effect in scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) is an excellent tool to probe the properties of the superconducting order parameter on a local scale through the Ambegao…