Coherent suppression of electromagnetic dissipation due to superconducting quasiparticles

Nature

Volumn 508, Issue 7496, 2014, Pages 369-372

  Pop, Ioan M ^a   Geerlings, Kurtis ^a   Catelani, Gianluigi ^a,b   Schoelkopf, Robert J ^a   Glazman, Leonid I ^a   Devoret, Michel H ^a  

^a Yale University   (United States)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; NIOBIUM; QUANTUM DOT;

DISSIPATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; TRANSPORT PROCESS;

ARTICLE; DIRECT CURRENT; ELECTRON BEAM; IMPEDANCE; LOW TEMPERATURE; MAGNETIC FIELD; MICROTECHNOLOGY; OXIDATION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION; RELAXATION TIME; SUPERCONDUCTOR; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 84898958996     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature13017     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. Mattis, D. C. & Bardeen, J. Theory of the anomalous skin effect in normal and superconducting metals. Phys. Rev. 111, 412-417 (1958
2. Josephson, B. D. Possible new effects in superconductive tunnelling. Phys. Lett. 1, 251-253 (1962
3. Barone, A. & Paternó, G. Physics and Applications of the Josephson Effect Ch. 2 (Wiley-VCH, 2005
4. Clarke, J. & Braginski, A. I. The SQUID Handbook: Fundamentals and Technology of SQUIDs and SQUID Systems (Wiley, 2004
5. Langenberg, D. Physical interpretation of the cos Q term and implications for detectors. Rev. Phys. Appl. 9, 35-40 (1974
6. Giazotto, F. & Martinez-Perez, M. J. The Josephson heat interferometer. Nature 492, 401-405 (2012
7. Catelani, G. et al. Quasiparticle relaxation of superconducting qubits in the presence of flux. Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 077002 (2011
8. Catelani, G., Schoelkopf, R. J., Devoret, M. H. & Glazman, L. I. Relaxation and frequency shifts induced by quasiparticles in superconducting qubits. Phys. Rev. B 84, 064517 (2011
9. Leppäkangas, J., Marthaler, M. & Schö n, G. Phase-dependent quasiparticle tunneling in Josephson junctions:Measuring the cos termwith a superconducting charge qubit. Phys. Rev. B 84, 060505 (2011
10. Beenakker, C. W. J. Universal limit of critical-current fluctuations in mesoscopic Josephson junctions. Phys. Rev. Lett. 67, 3836-3839 (1991
11. Bretheau, L., Girit, C. O., Pothier, H., Esteve, D.& Urbina, C. Exciting Andreev pairs in a superconducting atomic contact. Nature 499, 312-315 (2013
12. Harris, R. E. Cosine and other terms in the Josephson tunneling current. Phys. Rev. B 10, 84-94 (1974
13. Pedersen, N. F., Finnegan, T. F.& Langenberg, D. N.Magnetic field dependence and Q of the Josephson plasma resonance. Phys. Rev. B 6, 4151-4159 (1972
14. Soerensen, O. H., Mygind, J. & Pedersen, N. F. Measured temperature dependence of the cos w conductance in Josephson tunnel junctions. Phys. Rev. Lett. 39, 1018-1021 (1977
15. Aumentado, J., Keller, M. W., Martinis, J. M. & Devoret, M. H. Nonequilibrium quasiparticles and 2e periodicity in single-Cooper-pair transistors. Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 066802 (2004
16. Ferguson, A. J., Court, N. A., Hudson, F. E. & Clark, R. G. Microsecond resolution of quasiparticle tunneling in the single-Cooper-pair transistor. Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 106603 (2006
17. Shaw, M. D., Lutchyn, R. M., Delsing, P. & Echternach, P. M. Kinetics of nonequilibrium quasiparticle tunneling in superconducting charge qubits. Phys. Rev. B 78, 024503 (2008
18. Martinis, J. M., Ansmann, M. & Aumentado, J. Energy decay in superconducting Josephson-junction qubits from nonequilibrium quasiparticle excitations. Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 097002 (2009
19. Sun, L. et al. Measurements of quasiparticle tunneling dynamics in a band-gap-engineered transmon qubit. Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 230509 (2012
20. Risté, D. et al. Millisecondcharge-parity fluctuations and induced decoherence in a superconducting transmon qubit. Nature Commun. 4, 1913 (2013
21. Manucharyan, V. E., Koch, J., Glazman, L. I. & Devoret, M. H. Fluxonium: Single Cooper-pair circuit free of charge offsets. Science 326, 113-116 (2009
22. Brooks, P., Kitaev, A.& Preskill, J. Protected gates for superconducting qubits. Phys. Rev. A 87, 052306 (2013
23. Masluk, N. A. Reducing the Losses of the Fluxonium Artificial Atom. PhD thesis, Yale Univ. (2012
24. Masluk, N. A., Pop, I. M., Kamal, A., Minev, Z. K. & Devoret, M. H. Microwave characterization of Josephson junction arrays: Implementing a low loss superinductance. Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 137002 (2012
25. Bell, M. T., Sadovskyy, I. A., Ioffe, L. B., Kitaev, A. Y. & Gershenson, M. E. Quantum superinductor with tunable nonlinearity. Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 137003 (2012
26. Paik, H. et al. Observation of high coherence in Josephson junction qubits measured in a three-dimensional circuit QED architecture. Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 240501 (2011
27. Wallraff, A. et al. Strong coupling of a single photon to a superconducting qubit using circuit quantum electrodynamics. Nature 431, 162-167 (2004
28. Santavicca, D. F. & Prober, D. E. Impedance-matched low-pass stripline filters. Meas. Sci. Technol. 19, 087001 (2008
29. Schoelkopf, R. J., Clerk, A. A., Girvin, S. M., Lehnert, K. W.& Devoret, M. H. in Quantum Noise in Mesoscopic Physics (eds Nazarov, Yu. V. & Blanter, Ya. M.) 175-204 (Kluwer Academic, 2002
30. Lecocq, F. et al. Junction fabrication by shadow evaporation without a suspended bridge. Nanotechnology 22, 315302 (2011
31. Dolan, G. J. Offset masks for lift-off photoprocessing. Appl. Phys. Lett. 31, 337-339 (1977
32. Pop, I. M. et al. Fabrication of stable and reproducible submicron tunnel junctions. J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B 30, 010607 (2012
33. Barends, R. et al. Minimizing quasiparticle generation from stray infrared light in superconducting quantum circuits. Appl. Phys. Lett. 99, 113507 (2011
34. Rigetti, C. et al. Superconducting qubit in a waveguide cavity with a coherence time approaching 0.1 ms. Phys. Rev. B 86, 100506 (2012
35. Corcoles, A. D. et al. Protecting superconductingqubits fromradiation.Appl.Phys. Lett. 99, 181906 (2011
36. Braginsky, V. B., Ilchenko, V. S. & Bagdassarov, K. S. Experimental-observation of fundamental microwave-Absorption in high-quality dielectric crystals. Phys. Lett. A 120, 300-305 (1987
37. Kos, F., Nigg, S. E. & Glazman, L. I. Frequency-dependent admittance of a short superconducting weak link. Phys. Rev. B 87, 174521 (2013
38. Beenakker, C. W. J. Transport Phenomena in Mesoscopic Systems (Springer, 1992
39. Zhu, G., Ferguson, D. G., Manucharyan, V. E. & Koch, J. Circuit QED with fluxonium qubits: Theory of the dispersive regime. Phys. Rev. B 87, 024510 (2013