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Dilution refrigerator

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Mechanically induced correlated errors on superconducting qubits with relaxation times exceeding 0.4 ms

Tobias Kippenberg, Marco Scigliuzzo, Amir Youssefi, Jiahe Pan, Mahdi Chegnizadeh, Shingo Kono, Xuxin Wang

Superconducting qubits are among the most advanced candidates for achieving fault-tolerant quantum computing. Despite recent significant advancements in the qubit lifetimes, the origin of the loss mechanism for state-of-the-art qubits is still subject to i ...

Nature Portfolio2024

Scanning SQUID microscopy in a cryogen-free dilution refrigerator

Philip Johannes Walter Moll

We report a scanning superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) microscope in a cryogen-free dilution refrigerator with a base temperature at the sample stage of at least 30 mK. The microscope is rigidly mounted to the mixing chamber plate to opti ...

2021

Completion of the Commissioning of the EDIPO Test Facility

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Boris Stepanov, Rainer Wesche, Kamil Sedlák, Stephen Alfred March

The main coils of the new European DIPOle (EDIPO) test facility, which is able to provide a background magnetic field up to 12.35 T, were commissioned at the Center for Research in Plasma Physics in July 2013. A field homogeneity of +/-1% was achieved over ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2016

An ultra-low temperature scanning Hall probe microscope for magnetic imaging below 40 mK

Henrik Moodysson Rønnow, Julian Piatek

We describe the design of a low temperature scanning Hall probe microscope (SHPM) for a dilution refrigerator system. A detachable SHPM head with 25.4 mm OD and 200 mm length is integrated at the end of the mixing chamber base plate of the dilution refrige ...

American Institute of Physics2014

Evanescent straight tapered-fiber coupling of ultra-high Q optomechanical micro-resonators in a low-vibration helium-4 exchange-gas cryostat

Tobias Kippenberg, Albert Schliesser

We developed an apparatus to couple a 50-mu m diameter whispering-gallery silica microtoroidal resonator in a helium-4 cryostat using a straight optical tapered-fiber at 1550 nm wavelength. On a top-loading probe specifically adapted for increased mechanic ...

Amer Inst Physics2013

A 10 mK scanning tunneling microscope operating in ultra high vacuum and high magnetic fields

Klaus Kern

We present design and performance of a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) that operates at temperatures down to 10 mK providing ultimate energy resolution on the atomic scale. The STM is attached to a dilution refrigerator with direct access to an ultra h ...

Amer Inst Physics2013

Dynamical photothermal response of optical whispering-gallery silica microresonators in helium-4 cryogenic environments

Tobias Kippenberg, Albert Schliesser, Xiaoqing Zhou

We present optical measurements of the photothermal response of a whispering-gallery silica microresonator in a helium-4 exchange gas cryostat. Using transient-mode numerical simulations, we discuss the various heat propagation mechanisms. (C) 2011 Optical ...

Ieee2012

Ultra Low Temperature Susceptometer and Magnetometer : Study of the Spin Glass Series LiHox Er1-x F4

Julian Piatek

The first part of this thesis discusses technical details relating to measurements of magnetic properties at ultra low temperatures. The implementation of AC susceptibility at temperatures down to 30 mK is introduced and used as a platform to showcase sele ...

EPFL2012

Single-photon and photon-number-resolving detectors based on superconducting nanowires

Nanowire superconducting single photon detectors (SSPDs) [1] are characterized by very high sensitivity in the near infrared (detection efficiency η up to 30%, for a dark count rate DK of few Hz), speed (up to ∼1 GHz repetition rate) and time resolution (j ...

EPFL2009