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High frequency characterization of a Schottky contact to a GaN nanowire bundle

June 16, 2010
Author(s)
Chin J. Chiang, Thomas M. Wallis, Dazhen Gu, Atif A. Imtiaz, Pavel Kabos, Paul T. Blanchard, Kristine A. Bertness, Norman A. Sanford, Kichul Kim, Dejan Filipovic
A GaN nanowire (NW) Schottky contact was characterized up to 10 GHz. Using a calibration procedure and circuit model a capacitance-voltage (CV) curve was obtained, from which a carrier concentration was calculated for the first time. These results

Real Time Data Acquisition Platform for Pulsed Measurements

June 14, 2010
Author(s)
Sergey V. Polyakov, Alan L. Migdall, Sae Woo Nam
We present an inexpensive and simple data acquisition platform based on Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) designed to acquire and characterize fast digital or analog electrical signal real time for processing on a generic personal computer. While the

Design of the NIST 10 V programmable Josephson voltage standard system

June 13, 2010
Author(s)
Charles J. Burroughs, Paul Dresselhaus, Alain Rufenacht, Mike Elsbury, Samuel Benz
NIST has developed and implemented a new Programmable Josephson Voltage Standard (PJVS) that operates at 10 V. This next-generation system is optimized for both dc metrology and stepwise-approximated ac voltage measurements for frequencies up to a few

Development and investigation of intrinsically shunted junction series arrays for ac Josephson voltage standards

June 13, 2010
Author(s)
Johannes Kohlmann, Franz Mueller, Oliver F. kieler, D. Schleussner, B Egeling, Ralf Behr, David I. Olaya, Paul Dresselhaus, Samuel Benz
Different types of intrinsically shunted Josephson junctions have been developed and inves¬tigated for ac voltage standard applications at PTB. The first type for generation of voltages up to 10 V is driven by a 70 GHz sinusoidal microwave signal and

Microwave Optimization of 10 V PJVS Circuits

June 13, 2010
Author(s)
Paul D. Dresselhaus, Mike Elsbury, Charles J. Burroughs, Samuel P. Benz
Proper operation of programmable Josephson voltage standard arrays depends on the uniform distribution of microwaves to a large number of Josephson junctions. Too much or too little microwave power will change the current range of a junction s constant

Reduced Nonlinearities in the NIST Johnson Noise Thermometry System

June 13, 2010
Author(s)
Jifeng Qu, Samuel Benz, Alessio Pollarolo, Horst Rogalla
Improved electronics and synthesized noise waveforms for the NIST quantum-voltage-standard- calibrated Johnson noise thermometer (JNT) have lead to reduced uncertainty in the temperature measurement. Recent measurements show that some of the distortion in

Dark pulse quantum dot diode laser

June 7, 2010
Author(s)
Mingming M. Feng, Kevin L. Silverman, Richard P. Mirin, Steven T. Cundiff
We describe an operating regime for passively mode-locked quantum dot diode laser where the output consists of a train of dark pulses, i.e., intensity dips on a continuous background. We show that a dark pulse train is a solution to the master equation for

Enhanced telecom wavelength single-photon detection with NbTiN superconducting nanowires on oxidized silicon

June 3, 2010
Author(s)
Michael G. Tanner, C. M. Natarajan, V. K. Pottapenjara, J. A. O?Connor, R. J. Warburton, Robert Hadfield, Burm Baek, Sae Woo Nam, S. Dorenbos, T. Zijlstra, Teun Klapwijk, Val Zwiller
Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) have emerged as a highly promising infrared single-photon detector technology. Next-generation devices are being developed with enhanced detection efficiency (DE) at key technological wavelengths

Single photon detection timing jitter in a visible light photon counter

June 1, 2010
Author(s)
Burm Baek, Kyle S. McKay, Martin J. Stevens, Jungsang Kim, Henry H. Hogue, Sae Woo Nam
Visible light photon counters (VLPCs) offer many attractive features as photon detectors, such as high quantum efficiency and photon number resolution.We report measurements of the single-photon timing jitter in a VLPC, a critical performance factor in a

Digital Circuits Using Self-Shunted Nb/NbxSi1-x/Nb Josephson Junctions

May 27, 2010
Author(s)
David I. Olaya, Paul Dresselhaus, Samuel Benz, Anna Herr, Quentin Herr, alex Ioannidis, Donald Miller, Alan Kleinsasser
For the first time superconducting digital circuits based on novel Josephson junctions with amorphous niobium-silicon (a-NbSi) barriers were designed, fabricated and tested. Compared with the resistively shunted aluminum-oxide-barrier junctions that are

Operating quantum waveguide circuits with superconducting single-photon detectors

May 24, 2010
Author(s)
C. M. Natarajan, A. Peruzzo, Shigehito Miki, Masahide Sasaki, Z. Wang, Burm Baek, Sae Woo Nam, Robert Hadfield, Jeremy L. O'Brien
Advanced quantum information science and technology (QIST) applications place exacting demands on optical components. Quantum waveguide circuits offer a route to scalable QIST on a chip. Superconducting single-photon detectors (SSPDs) provide infrared

Fast Quantum Algorithms for Traversing Paths of Eigenstates

May 17, 2010
Author(s)
S. Boixo, Emanuel Knill, Rolando Somma
Consider a path of non-degenerate eigenstates |psi_s>, 0 Solutions to this problem have applications ranging from quantum physics simulation to optimization. For Hamiltonians, the conventional way of doing this is by applying the adiabatic theorem. We give

Tailored State Preparation for Solid State Quantum Memory

May 16, 2010
Author(s)
Elizabeth A. Goldschmidt, Sergey V. Polyakov, Sarah E. Beavan, Jingyun Fan, Alan L. Migdall
We use spectral hole burning in Pr3+:Y2SiO5 in order to prepare spectral distributions of ions optimized for using such a material as a quantum memory for photon states. Our spectral hole-burning implementations include preparing an ensemble of ions to be

RFSQUID-Mediated Coherent Tunable Coupling Between a Superconducting Phase Qubit and a Lumped Element Resonator

April 29, 2010
Author(s)
Michael S. Allman, Fabio Altomare, Jed D. Whittaker, Katarina Cicak, Dale Li, Adam J. Sirois, Joshua Strong, John D. Teufel, Raymond W. Simmonds
We demonstrate coherent tunable coupling between a superconducting phase qubit and a lumpedelement resonator. The coupling strength is mediated by a flux-biased rf SQUID operated in the nonhysteretic regime. By tuning the applied flux bias to the rf SQUID

Code-division SQUID multiplexing

April 23, 2010
Author(s)
Michael D. Niemack, Kent D. Irwin, Joern Beyer, Hsiao-Mei Cho, William B. Doriese, Gene C. Hilton, Carl D. Reintsema, Daniel R. Schmidt, Joel N. Ullom, Leila R. Vale
Multiplexed superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) readout systems are a critical technology for measuring large arrays of superconducting transition-edge sensor (TES) detectors. Current successful SQUID multiplexing architectures are

Direct Observation of Coherent Population Trapping in a Superconducting Artificial Atom

April 20, 2010
Author(s)
David P. Pappas, Jeffrey S. Kline, Willim R. Kelley, Zachary Dutton, Thomas A. Ohki, john Schlafer, Bashkar Mookerji
The phenomenon of coherent population trapping (CPT) of an atom (or solid state artificial atom ), and the associated effect of electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT), are clear demonstrations of quantum interference due to coherence in multilevel

Ultra Sensitive NIR Spectrometer Based on Frequency Up-conversion Detector

April 7, 2010
Author(s)
Lijun Ma, Oliver T. Slattery, Xiao Tang
We developed a spectrometer for signals at single photon levels in the near infrared (NIR) region based on a tunable up-conversion detector. This detector uses a 5-cm periodically poled lithium niobate (PPLN) waveguide to convert NIR photons to a shorter

Niobium-silicide junction technology for superconducting digital electronics

April 1, 2010
Author(s)
David I. Olaya, Paul D. Dresselhaus, Samuel P. Benz
We present a technology based on Nb/NbxSi1-x/Nb junctions, with barriers near the metal-insulator transition, for applications in superconducting electronics (SCE) as an alternative to Nb/AlOx/Nb tunnel junctions. Josephson junctions with co-sputtered

Analysis of photoconductive gain as it applies to single-photon detection

March 30, 2010
Author(s)
Mary A. Rowe, G. M. Salley, E. J. Gansen, Shelley M. Etzel, Sae Woo Nam, Richard P. Mirin
We detail a mathematical framework for photoconductive gain applied to the detection of single photons. Because photoconductive gain is derived from the ability to measure current change for an extended period, its magnitude is reduced as detection speed

Toward scalable ion traps for quantum information processing

March 16, 2010
Author(s)
Jason Amini, Hermann Uys, Janus H. Wesenberg, Signe Seidelin, Joseph W. Britton, John J. Bollinger, Dietrich G. Leibfried, Christian Ospelkaus, Aaron Vandevender, David J. Wineland
The basic components for a quantum information processor using trapped ions have been demonstrated in a number of experiments. To perform complex algorithms that are not tractable with classical computers, these components need to be integrated and scaled
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