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20102026
most citedOtto refrigerator based on a superconducting qubit: classical and quantum performance

151 citations · 377 across the 25 of their papers we have counts for

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25 papers

quant-ph2026

Thermalization and dephasing in an isolated system of coupled qubits

Jukka P. Pekola, Bayan Karimi

A system evolving unitarily does not dephase or thermalize by definition. Yet, if one considers a part of a unitary system, situation is different. Here we analyze an isolated set…

quant-ph2026

Heat transport in driven quantum systems: Comparison between the Floquet-Redfield equation and the master equation in the instantaneous eigenbasis

Luca Magazzù, Christoforus Dimas Satrya, Aleksandr S. Strelnikov +2

We provide a comprehensive study of heat transport in periodically driven quantum systems using a master equation approach in the Floquet basis. Starting from the exact, formal exp…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Heat measurement of quantum interference

Christoforus Dimas Satrya, Aleksandr S. Strelnikov, Luca Magazzù +5

Coherence is a key property of quantum systems, and it plays a central role in the operation and performance of quantum heat engines and refrigerators. Despite its importance for t…

quant-ph2025

Probing strongly driven and strongly coupled superconducting qubit-resonator system

Oleh V. Ivakhnenko, Christoforus Dimas Satrya, Yu-Cheng Chang +5

We investigated a strongly driven qubit strongly connected to a quantum resonator. The measured system was a superconducting flux qubit coupled to a coplanar-waveguide resonator wh…

quant-ph2025★ 1 cited

A blueprint for experiments exploring the Poincaré quantum recurrence theorem

Bayan Karimi, Xuntao Wu, Andrew N. Cleland +1

The quantum form of the Poincaré recurrence theorem stipulates that a system with a time-independent Hamiltonian and discrete energy levels returns arbitrarily close to its initial…

quant-ph2025

Thermal rectification in a qubit-resonator system

Luca Magazzù, Elisabetta Paladino, Jukka P. Pekola +1

A qubit-oscillator junction connecting as a series two bosonic heat baths at different temperatures can display heat valve and diode effects. In particular, the rectification can c…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Quantum-Ready Microwave Detection with Scalable Graphene Bolometers in the Strong Localization Regime

Yu-Cheng Chang, Federico Chianese, Naveen Shetty +8

Exploiting quantum interference of charge carriers, epitaxial graphene grown on silicon carbide emerges as a game-changing platform for ultra-sensitive bolometric sensing, featurin…

quant-ph2025★ 33 cited

Roadmap on Quantum Thermodynamics

Steve Campbell, Irene D'Amico, Mario A. Ciampini +66

The last two decades has seen quantum thermodynamics become a well established field of research in its own right. In that time, it has demonstrated a remarkably broad applicabilit…

quant-ph2024

Strong-coupling quantum thermodynamics using a superconducting flux qubit

Rishabh Upadhyay, Bayan Karimi, Diego Subero +4

Thermodynamics in quantum circuits aims to find improved functionalities of thermal machines, highlight fundamental phenomena peculiar to quantum nature in thermodynamics, and poin…

quant-ph2024

Thermal spectrometer for superconducting circuits

Christoforus Dimas Satrya, Yu-Cheng Chang, Aleksandr S. Strelnikov +5

Superconducting circuits provide a versatile and controllable platform for studies of fundamental quantum phenomena as well as for quantum technology applications. A conventional t…

quant-ph2024★ 10 cited

Thermometry Based on a Superconducting Qubit

Dmitrii S. Lvov, Sergei A. Lemziakov, Elias Ankerhold +2

We report temperature measurements using a transmon qubit by detecting the population of its first three energy levels, after applying a sequence of -pulses and performing proje…

quant-ph2024

Thermalization via three-wave mixing

Jukka P. Pekola, Bayan Karimi

We discuss thermalization in a multimode quantum cavity under unitary evolution. According to general principles, an isolated system with quadratic couplings does not exhibit therm…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024

Bolometric detection of Josephson radiation

Bayan Karimi, Gorm Ole Steffensen, Andrew P. Higginbotham +3

A Josephson junction (JJ) has been under intensive study ever since 1960's. Yet even in the present era of building quantum information processing devices based on many JJs, open q…

quant-ph2024★ 10 cited

Dicke superradiant enhancement of the heat current in circuit QED

Gian Marcello Andolina, Paolo Andrea Erdman, Frank Noé +2

Collective effects, such as Dicke superradiant emission, can enhance the performance of a quantum device. Here, we study the heat current flowing between a cold and a hot bath thro…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022★ 25 cited

Bolometric detection of Josephson inductance in a highly resistive environment

Diego Subero, Olivier Maillet, Dmitry S. Golubev +8

The Josephson junction is a building block of quantum circuits. Its behavior, well understood when treated as an isolated entity, is strongly affected by coupling to an electromagn…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022★ 25 cited

Calorimetry of a Quantum Phase Slip

E. Gümüş, D. Majidi, D. Nikolić +8

In a Josephson junction, which is the central element in superconducting quantum technology, irreversibility arises from abrupt slips of the gauge-invariant quantum phase differenc…

cond-mat.mes-hall2017★ 2 cited

Hybrid single-electron turnstiles with thick superconducting electrodes for improved quasiparticle relaxation

J. T. Peltonen, A. Moisio, V. F. Maisi +3

We demonstrate shadow evaporation-based fabrication of high-quality ultrasmall normal metal -- insulator -- superconductor tunnel junctions where the thickness of the superconducti…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 151 cited

Otto refrigerator based on a superconducting qubit: classical and quantum performance

B. Karimi, J. P. Pekola

We analyse a quantum Otto refrigerator based on a superconducting qubit coupled to two LC-resonators each including a resistor acting as a reservoir. We find various operation regi…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 15 cited

Thermal conductance of Nb thin films at sub-kelvin temperatures

A. V. Feshchenko, O. -P. Saira, J. T. Peltonen +1

We determine the thermal conductance of thin niobium (Nb) wires on a silica substrate in the temperature range of 0.1 - 0.6 K using electron thermometry based on normal metal-insul…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 11 cited

High-performance electronic cooling with superconducting tunnel junctions

H Courtois, Hung Q. Nguyen, Clemens Winkelmann +1

When biased at a voltage just below a superconductor's energy gap, a tunnel junction between this superconductor and a normal metal cools the latter. While the study of such device…

cond-mat.mes-hall2015★ 4 cited

On-chip error counting for hybrid metallic single-electron turnstiles

J. T. Peltonen, V. F. Maisi, S. Singh +2

We perform in-situ detection of individual electrons pumped through a single-electron turnstile based on ultrasmall normal metal - insulator - superconductor tunnel junctions. In o…

cond-mat.mes-hall2015★ 21 cited

Low-temperature characterization of Nb-Cu-Nb weak links with Ar ion-cleaned interfaces

R. N. Jabdaraghi, J. T. Peltonen, O. -P. Saira +1

We characterize niobium-based lateral Superconductor (S) - Normal metal (N) - Superconductor weak links through low-temperature switching current measurements and tunnel spectrosco…

cond-mat.mes-hall2014★ 31 cited

Experimental realization of a Coulomb blockade refrigerator

A. V. Feshchenko, J. V. Koski, J. P. Pekola

We present an experimental realization of a Coulomb blockade refrigerator (CBR) based on a single - electron transistor (SET). In the present structure, the SET island is interrupt…

cond-mat.mes-hall2011★ 10 cited

Laterally proximized aluminum tunnel junctions

J. V. Koski, J. T. Peltonen, M. Meschke +1

This letter presents experiments on junctions fabricated by a new technique that enables the use of high quality aluminum oxide tunnel barriers with normal metal electrodes at low…