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Engineering three-body interaction and Pfaffian states in circuit QED systems

August 18, 2014
Author(s)
Mohammad Hafezi, Prabin Adhikari, Jacob M. Taylor
We demonstrate a scheme to engineer the three-body interaction in circuit-QED systems by tuning a fluxonium qubit. Connecting such qubits in a square lattice and controlling the tunneling dynamics, in the form of a synthesized magnetic field, for the

Hybrid superconducting-magnetic memory device using competing order parameters

May 28, 2014
Author(s)
Burm Baek, William H. Rippard, Samuel P. Benz, Stephen E. Russek, Paul D. Dresselhaus
The quantum behavior of Josephson junctions is often exploited to produce superconducting devices with outstanding performance. Josephson junctions can also be used in circuits that perform logic operations in picoseconds and may enable high-performance

Localization and electron-electron interactions in few-layer epitaxial graphene

May 28, 2014
Author(s)
Randolph E. Elmquist, Fan-Hung Liu, Lung-I Huang, Yasuhiro Fukuyama, Chi-Te Liang, Yanfei Yang
We study the quantum corrections caused by electron-electron (e-e) interactions and localization to the conductivity in few-layer epitaxial graphene, in which the carriers responsible for transport are massive. Our results demonstrate that the diffusive

A single photon transistor based on superconducting systems

May 12, 2014
Author(s)
Marco Manzoni, Florentin Reiter, Jacob Taylor, Anders Sorensen
In analogy with electronic transistors, a single photon transistor is a device where the presence or absence of a single gate photon controls the propagation of a large number of signal photons [1, 2]. Such devices would represent a milestone in our

Tearing and scrolling of transferred graphene

April 29, 2014
Author(s)
Guangjun Cheng, Brent A. Sperling, James E. Maslar, Curt A. Richter, Angela R. Hight Walker
We present an investigation on tearing and scrolling of the transferred graphene on a Si/SiO2 substrate. Graphene grown by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) is transferred onto a Si/SiO2 substrate using a wet polymer-mediated process. Upon the removal of

Parametric pumping of precession modes in ferromagnetic nanodisks

March 26, 2014
Author(s)
Feng Guo, Lyubov Belova, Robert McMichael
We report parametric excitation of magnetic precession modes in nanodisks using a parallel pumping configuration. The excitations are detected using a ferromagneitc resonance force microscopy method, and the parallel-pumped spectra reveal nonlinear

Dual-polarization-sensitive kinetic inductance detectors for balloon-borne, sub-millimeter polarimetry

March 20, 2014
Author(s)
James A. Beall, Dan Becker, Justus Brevik, Hsiao-Mei Cho, Gene C. Hilton, Kent D. Irwin, Dale Li, David P. Pappas, Jeffrey L. Van Lanen, Johannes Hubmayr
We are developing arrays of kinetic inductance detectors for sub-millimeter polarimetry that will be deployed on the BLAST balloon-borne instrument. The array is feedhorn-coupled, and each pixel contains two lumped-element kinetic inductance detectors

Dipole-Dipole Interactions in TiOPc Adlayers on Ag

February 20, 2014
Author(s)
Steven W. Robey, Xianjie Liu, Yinying Wei, Janice E. Reutt-Robey
The molecular organization in layers of a polar phthalocyanine, titanyl phthalocyanine (TiOPc), on the Ag(110) surface was studied with scanning tunneling microscopy (STM). TiOPc molecules adsorb on Ag(110) in a tilted configuration in contrast to the flat

Properties of TiN for Detector and Amplifier Applications

February 8, 2014
Author(s)
Jiansong Gao, Michael R. Vissers, Martin O. Sandberg, Dale Li, Hsiao-Mei Cho, Clint Bockstiegel, Ben Mazin, Henry G. Leduc, Saptarshi Chaudhuri, David P. Pappas, K D. Irwin
We have experimentally explored and carefully characterized the important properties of TiN, including the resistivity, nonlinear kinetic inductance, the anomalous electro-dynamical response, and the two-level-system induced frequency shift and noise. We

Head and Media Challenges for 3 Tb/in 2 Microwave Assisted Magnetic Recording

February 3, 2014
Author(s)
Thomas J. Silva, Justin M. Shaw, Hans T. Nembach, Mike Mallary, Kumar Srinivasan, Gerado Bertero, Dan Wolf, Christian Kaiser, Michael Chaplin, Mahendra Pakala, Leng Qunwen, Yiming Wang, Carl Elliot, Lui Francis
A specific design for Microwave Assisted Magnetic Recording (MAMR) at about 3Tb/in 2 (0.47 Tb/cm 2 or 4.7 Pb/m 2) is discussed in detail to highlight the challenges of MAMR and to contrast its requirements with conventional Perpendicular Magnetic Recording

Comment on Detection of Microwave Spin Pumping Using the Inverse Spin Hall Effect

January 27, 2014
Author(s)
Thomas J. Silva, Mathias A. Weiler, Hans T. Nembach, Justin M. Shaw
In a recent Letter, Hahn et al. reported on the detection of an ac voltage in a yttrium iron garnet (YIG)/platinum (Pt) bilayer under the condition of parametrically excited resonance. The authors observe an ac voltage at the frequency of the magnetization

Phase-slip lines as a resistance mechanism in transition-edge sensors

January 27, 2014
Author(s)
Douglas A. Bennett, Daniel R. Schmidt, Daniel S. Swetz, Joel N. Ullom
The fundamental mechanism of resistance in voltage-biased superconducting films is poorly understood despite its importance as the basis of transition-edge sensors (TESs). TESs are utilized in state-of- the-art microbolometers and microcalorimeters

Sub-100 mK cooling using normal-metal?insulator?superconductor tunnel junctions

December 15, 2013
Author(s)
Peter J. Lowell, Galen C. O'Neil, Jason M. Underwood, Xiaohang NMN Zhang, Joel N. Ullom
Normal-metal∖insulator∖superconductor (NIS) junctions can be used as solid-state refrigerators since the hottest electrons preferentially tunnel from the normal metal into the superconductor. In this paper, we present NIS junctions optimized to cool

Identification and elimination of anomalous thermal decay in gamma-ray microcalorimeters

November 18, 2013
Author(s)
Robert D. Horansky, Douglas A. Bennett, Daniel R. Schmidt, Barry L. Zink, Joel N. Ullom
Microcalorimeter detectors rely on superconducting components and cryogenic temperatures to provide over an order-of-magnitude improvement in energy resolution compared to semiconducting sensors. Resolution improvements impact fields from gamma-ray

High resolution gamma-ray spectroscopy with a microwave-multiplexed TES array

November 11, 2013
Author(s)
Omid Noroozian, John A. Mates, Douglas A. Bennett, Justus A. Brevik, Joseph W. Fowler, Jiansong Gao, Robert D. Horansky, Kent D. Irwin, Daniel R. Schmidt, Joel N. Ullom, Zhao Kang
We demonstrate the first gamma-ray spectroscopy with a microwave-multiplexed two-pixel TES(transition-edge sensor) array. We measured a $^{153}$Gd photon source and achieved an energy resolution of 63 eV full-width-at-half-maximum (FWHM) at 97 keV and an

Time Required to Injection-Lock Spin Torque Nanoscale Oscillators

October 29, 2013
Author(s)
William H. Rippard, Matthew R. Pufall, Anthony B. Kos
We have injection-locked a spin-transfer oscillator to a second-harmonic electrical input signal and measured the relative phase and amplitude of the device output as a function of DC current under steady-state conditions. The relative phase of the device

EUV-Driven Carbonaceous Film Deposition and Its Photo-oxidation on a TiO2 Film Surface

September 23, 2013
Author(s)
Nadir S. Faradzhev, Monica McEntee, John Yate, Shannon B. Hill, Thomas B. Lucatorto
We report the photo-deposition of a carbonaceous layer grown on a TiO2 thin film by EUV radiation-induced chemistry of adsorbed n-tetradecane and the subsequent photo-oxidation of this film. It is found by chemical analysis of the C layer that irradiation

Feeling Small: Exploring the tactile perception limits

September 12, 2013
Author(s)
Lisa Skedung, Martin Arvidsson, Jun Y. Chung, Christopher Stafford, Birgitta Berglund, Mark W. Rutland
The human finger is exquisitely sensitive in distinguishing different materials, but the question remains as to what length scales are capable of being discriminated in active touch? We combine psychophysical approaches with materials science to

Reply to "Comment on: 'Ultrafast Demagnetization Measurements Using Extreme Ultraviolet Light: Comparison of Electronic and Magnetic Contributions'"

September 4, 2013
Author(s)
Justin Shaw, Thomas J. Silva, Hans Nembach, Emrah Turgut, Patrik Grychtol, Chan La-O-Vorakiat, Henry C. Kapteyn, Margaret M. Murnane, Stefan Mathias, Martin Aeschlimann, Claus Schneider, Daniel E. Adams
In the following, we show that the conclusions of our article titled "Ultrafast Demagnetization Measurements Using Extreme Ultraviolet Light: Comparison of Electronic and Magnetic Contributions" are correct. The Comment of Vodungbo et al. argues that a
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