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Thouless pumping in Josephson junction arrays

Stavros Athanasiou

Recent advancements in fabrication techniques have enabled unprecedented clean interfaces and gate tunability in semiconductor-superconductor heterostructures. Inspired by these developments, we propose protocols to realize Thouless quantum pumping in elec ...

Scipost Foundation2024

Three-wave-mixing quantum-limited kinetic inductance parametric amplifier operating at 6 T near 1 K

Pasquale Scarlino, Simone Frasca, Guillaume Beaulieu, Camille René Charles Roy

Parametric amplifiers play a crucial role in modern quantum technology by enabling the enhancement of weak signals with minimal added noise. Traditionally, Josephson junctions have been the primary choice for constructing parametric amplifiers. Nevertheles ...

American Physical Society (APS)2024

Algebraic and Boolean Methods for SFQ Superconducting Circuits

Giovanni De Micheli, Alessandro Tempia Calvino

Rapid single-flux quantum (RSFQ) is one of the most advanced and promising superconducting logic families, offering exceptional energy efficiency and speed. RSFQ technology requires delay registers (DFFs) and splitter cells to satisfy the path-balancing an ...

2024

Mitigation of frequency collisions in superconducting quantum processors

Marco Scigliuzzo

The reproducibility of qubit parameters is a challenge for scaling up superconducting quantum processors. Signal cross talk imposes constraints on the frequency separation between neighboring qubits. The frequency uncertainty of transmon qubits arising fro ...

Amer Physical Soc2023

NbN films with high kinetic inductance for high-quality compact superconducting resonators

Edoardo Charbon, Pasquale Scarlino, Fabrizio Minganti, Simone Frasca, Marco Scigliuzzo, Fabian Oppliger, Vincent Jean Yves Jouanny

Niobium nitride (NbN) is a particularly promising material for quantum technology applications, as it shows the degree of reproducibility necessary for large-scale superconducting circuits. We demonstrate that resonators based on NbN thin films present a o ...

American Physical Society (APS)2023

High-Kinetic Inductance Superconducting Technology for Quantum Applications

Simone Frasca

Superconducting materials present unique properties, which make a potential technological platform based on superconductors extremely appealing for a wide set of applications, both classical and not. Among these classes of materials, high-kinetic inductanc ...

EPFL2023

Superconducting quantum interference at the atomic scale

Klaus Kern, Haonan Huang

A single spin in a Josephson junction can reverse the flow of the supercurrent by changing the sign of the superconducting phase difference across it. At mesoscopic length scales, these pi-junctions are employed in various applications, such as finding the ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2022

Extracting transport channel transmissions in scanning tunneling microscopy using superconducting excess current

Klaus Kern, Jacob Senkpiel

Transport through quantum coherent conductors, such as atomic junctions, is described by conduction channels. Information about the number of channels and their transmissions can be extracted from various sources, such as multiple Andreev reflections, dyna ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2022

Controlling superconductivity of CeIrIn5 microstructures by substrate selection

Philip Johannes Walter Moll, Matthias Carsten Putzke, Chunyu Guo, Maarten Ruud van Delft, Joshua Alan Wolfe Straquadine

Superconductor/metal interfaces are usually fabricated in heterostructures that join these dissimilar materials. A conceptually different approach has recently exploited the strain sensitivity of heavy-fermion superconductors, selectively transforming regi ...

AIP Publishing2022

Resonant Inelastic X-Ray Scattering Study of Electron-Exciton Coupling in High-T-c Cuprates

Fabrizio Carbone, Thorsten Schmitt, Ivan Madan, Christophe Berthod, Yi Tseng, Francesco Barantani

Explaining the mechanism of superconductivity in the high-T-c cuprates requires an understanding of what causes electrons to form Cooper pairs. Pairing can be mediated by phonons, the screened Coulomb force, spin or charge fluctuations, excitons, or by a c ...

American Physical Society2022

Energy Efficient Sensing using Steep Slope Devices

Teodor Rosca

Today, we are witnessing the Internet of Things (IoT) revolution, which facilitates and improves our lives in many aspects, but comes with several challenges related to the technology deployment at large scales. Handling ever growing amounts of information ...

EPFL2022

Tunneling processes through magnetic impurities on superconducting surfaces: Yu-Shiba-Rusinov states and the Josephson effect

Haonan Huang

Magnetic impurities generate a wealth of phenomena on surfaces. On metals, conducting electrons screen the magnetic moment giving rise to the Kondo effect. On superconductors, the Yu-Shiba-Rusinov (YSR) states emerge inside the superconducting gap due to t ...

EPFL2021

Single channel Josephson effect in a high transmission atomic contact

Klaus Kern, Jacob Senkpiel

The Josephson effect in scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) is an excellent tool to probe the properties of a superconductor on a local scale. We use atomic manipulation in a low temperature STM to create mesoscopic single channel contacts and study the Jo ...

NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP2020

Bosonic superfluid transport in a quantum point contact

Jean-Philippe Brantut

We present a microscopic theory of heat and particle transport of an interacting, low-temperature Bose- Einstein condensate in a quantum point contact.We show that, in contrast to charged, fermionic superconductors, bosonic systems feature tunneling proces ...

2020

Local control theory for superconducting qubits

Ivano Tavernelli, Sara Bonella

In this work, we develop a method to design control pulses for fixed-frequency superconducting qubits coupled via tunable couplers based on local control theory, an approach commonly employed to steer chemical reactions. Local control theory provides an al ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2019

Low-temperature growth of n(++)-GaN by metalorganic chemical vapor deposition to achieve low-resistivity tunnel junctions on blue light emitting diodes

Nicolas Grandjean, Jean-François Carlin, Pirouz Sohi, Yao Chen

We report on low-resistivity GaN tunnel junctions (TJ) on blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs). Si-doped n(++)-GaN layers are grown by metalorganic chemical vapor deposition directly on LED epiwafers. Low growth temperature (

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2019

Robustness of Yu-Shiba-Rusinov resonances in the presence of a complex superconducting order parameter

Klaus Kern, Jacob Senkpiel

Robust quantum systems rely on having a protective environment with minimized relaxation channels. Super-conducting gaps play an important role in the design of such environments. The interaction of localized single spins with a conventional superconductor ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2019

Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy with Superconducting Junctions : From Single Channel Transport to Local Pair Breaking Potentials

Jacob Senkpiel

This thesis contains two major topics, the restriction of tunneling to only a few channels in the scanning tunneling microscope (STM) and the interaction of local magnetic impurities with superconductivity. At a temperature of 15mK, the quantum back-action ...

EPFL2018

Novel Digital and Radio Frequency Electronic Functions Enabled by Steep-Slope Phase-Change Devices

Emanuele Andrea Casu

In the past half-century, the semiconductor industry has relied on the scaling of complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) transistor dimensions and on material and geometrical innovations to increase the computational density. Approaching the end of ...

EPFL2018

Mastering the statistical properties of microcavity polaritons

Albert Adiyatullin

Microcavity polaritons are hybrid quasiparticles emerging from the strong coupling between quantum well excitons and light in the resonator. Their unique half-light half-matter nature brings in specific properties like low effective mass, nonlinearity due ...

EPFL2017