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Systematic Improvements in Transmon Qubit Coherence enabled by Niobium Surface Encapsulation

June 14, 2023
Author(s)
Mustafa BAL, Akshay Murthy, Francesco Crisa, Shaojiang Zhu, Florent Lecocq, Joe Aumentado, Joel Ullom, Pete Hopkins
We present a novel transmon qubit fabrication technique that yields systematic improvements in T1 coherence times. In this study, the devices are fabricated using a novel encapsulation strategy that involves passivating the surface of niobium and thereby

Contactless Excitation of Acoustic Resonance in Thin Wafers

October 4, 2022
Author(s)
Gan Zhai, Yizhou Xin, Cameron Kopas, Ella Lachman, Mark Field, Josh Y Mutus, Katarina Cicak, Joe Aumentado, Zuhawn Sung, William Halperin
Contactless excitation and detection of high harmonic acoustic overtones in a thin single crystal are described using radio frequency spectroscopy techniques. Single crystal [001] silicon wafer samples were investigated, one side covered with a Nb thin

Performance of a Kinetic-Inductance Traveling-Wave Parametric Amplifier at 4 Kelvin: Toward an Alternative to Semiconductor Amplifiers

April 5, 2022
Author(s)
Maxime Malnou, Joe Aumentado, Michael Vissers, Jordan Wheeler, Johannes Hubmayr, Joel Ullom, Jiansong Gao
Most microwave readout architectures in quantum computing or sensing rely on a semiconductor amplifier at 4\,K, typically a high-electron mobility transistor (HEMT). Despite its remarkable noise performance, a conventional HEMT dissipates several

Development and Evaluation of Bluetooth Low-Energy Device for Electronic Encounter Metrics

January 20, 2022
Author(s)
Katy Keenan, Joe Aumentado, Harold Booth, Kimberly Briggman, Mikail Kraft-Molleda, Michele Martin, Rene Peralta, Angela Robinson, Krister Shalm, Michelle Stephens, Emily Townsend, Sae Woo Nam
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic led to the need for tracking of physical contacts and potential exposure to disease. Traditional contact tracing can be augmented by electronic tools called "electronic contact tracing" or "exposure

Control and readout of a superconducting qubit using a photonic link

March 24, 2021
Author(s)
Florent Lecocq, Franklyn Quinlan, Katarina Cicak, Joe Aumentado, Scott Diddams, John Teufel
Delivering on the revolutionary promise of a universal quantum computer will require processors with millions of quantum bits (qubits). In superconducting quantum processors, each qubit is individually addressed with microwave signal lines that connect

Modeling Bloch Oscillations in Nanoscale Josephson Junctions

August 7, 2017
Author(s)
Heli C. Vora, Richard Kautz, Sae Woo Nam, Jose A. Aumentado
Bloch oscillations in nanoscale Josephson junctions with a Coulomb charging energy comparable to the Josephson coupling energy are explored within the context of a model previously considered by Geigenmüller and Schön that includes Zener tunneling and

Demonstration of efficient nonreciprocity in a microwave optomechanical circuit

July 6, 2017
Author(s)
Gabriel A. Peterson, Florent Q. Lecocq, Katarina Cicak, Raymond W. Simmonds, Jose A. Aumentado, John D. Teufel
Abstract The ability to engineer nonreciprocal interactions is an essential tool in modern communication technology as well as a powerful resource for building quantum networks. Aside from large reverse isolation, a nonreciprocal device suitable for

Field Programmable Josephson Amplifier for non-reciprocal microwave signal processing

February 17, 2017
Author(s)
Florent Q. Lecocq, Leonardo Ranzani, Gabriel A. Peterson, Katarina Cicak, Raymond W. Simmonds, John D. Teufel, Jose A. Aumentado
We report on the design and implementation of a Field Programmable Josephson Amplifier (FPJA) - a compact and lossless superconducting circuit that can be programmed in-situ by a set of microwave drives to perform reciprocal and non-reciprocal frequency

Mechanically mediated microwave frequency conversion

January 26, 2016
Author(s)
Florent Q. Lecocq, Jeremy B. Clark, Raymond W. Simmonds, Jose A. Aumentado, John D. Teufel
We report the observation of efficient and low-noise frequency conversion between two microwave modes, mediated by the motion of a mechanical resonator subjected to radiation pressure. We achieve the coherent conversion of more than 10^{12} photons/s with

Quantum Nondemolition Measurement of a Nonclassical State of a Massive Object

December 7, 2015
Author(s)
Florent Q. Lecocq, Jeremy B. Clark, Raymond W. Simmonds, Jose A. Aumentado, John D. Teufel
By coupling a macroscopic mechanical oscillator to two microwave cavities, we simultaneously prepare and monitor a nonclassical steady state of mechanical motion. In each cavity, correlated radiation pressure forces induced by two coherent drives engineer

Resolving the vacuum fluctuations of an optomechanical system using an artificial atom

June 15, 2015
Author(s)
Florent Q. Lecocq, John D. Teufel, Jose A. Aumentado, Raymond W. Simmonds
Heisenberg's uncertainty principle results in one of the strangest quantum behaviours: a mechanical oscillator can never truly be at rest. Even at a temperature of absolute zero, its position and momentum are still subject to quantum fluctuations. However

Graph-based analysis of nonreciprocity in coupled-mode systems

February 10, 2015
Author(s)
Leonardo M. Ranzani, Jose A. Aumentado
In this work we derive the general conditions for obtaining nonreciprocity in multi-mode parametrically- coupled systems. The results can be applied to a broad variety of optical, microwave, and hybrid systems including recent electro- and opto-mechanical

A geometric description of nonreciprocity in coupled two-mode systems

October 16, 2014
Author(s)
Leonardo M. Ranzani, Jose A. Aumentado
We explore the concept of nonreciprocity in coupled two-mode systems using a geometric mapping to the Poincaré sphere. From this perspective, we recast the requirements for nonreciprocity in terms of rotation and inversion symmetry arguments for the vector

Tunable Resonant and Nonresonant Interactions between a Phase Qubit and LC Resonator

March 26, 2014
Author(s)
Michael S. Allman, Jed D. Whittaker, Manuel C. Castellanos Beltran, Katarina Cicak, Fabio C. Da Silva, Michael DeFeo, Florent Q. Lecocq, Adam J. Sirois, John D. Teufel, Jose A. Aumentado, Raymond W. Simmonds
We use a flux-biased radio frequency superconducting quantum interference device (rf SQUID) with an embedded flux-biased direct current SQUID to generate strong resonant and nonresonant tunable interactions between a phase qubit and a lumped-element

Broadband S-parameter characterization of a DC-SQUID amplifier

July 9, 2013
Author(s)
Leonardo M. Ranzani, Lafe F. Spietz, Jose A. Aumentado
In this work we characterize the 2-port scattering parameters of a superconducting quantum interference device (DC-SQUID) ampli er at 20 mK in the 2{8 GHz band. The measurement reference plane is positioned on a 6.25 microstrip line situated directly at

Two-port microwave calibration at millikelvin temperatures

March 15, 2013
Author(s)
Leonardo M. Ranzani, Jose A. Aumentado, Lafe F. Spietz, Zoya Popovic
In this work we introduce a system for 2-port microwave calibration at millikelvin temperatures operating at the coldest stage of a dilution refrigerator by use of an adapted thru-reflect-line algorithm. We show that this can be an effective tool for

Two-port microwave calibration at milliKelvin temperatures

March 5, 2013
Author(s)
Leonardo M. Ranzani, Lafe F. Spietz, Zoya Popovic, Jose A. Aumentado
In this work we introduce a system for 2-port microwave calibration at millikelvin temperatures operating at the coldest stage of a dilution refrigerator by use of an adapted thru-reflect-line algorithm. We show that this can be an effective tool for

Radiation-suppressed superconducting quantum bit in a planar geometry

February 19, 2013
Author(s)
Martin O. Sandberg, Tomas A. Ohki, Jose A. Aumentado, Martin P. Weides, David P. Pappas
We present a superconducting transmon qubit circuit design based on large, coplanar capacitor plates and a microstrip resonator. The microstrip geometry, with the ground plane on the back, enhances access to the circuit for state preparation and

A 4:1 transmission-line impedance transformer for broadband superconducting circuits

October 1, 2012
Author(s)
Leonardo M. Ranzani, Lafe F. Spietz, Jose A. Aumentado, Zoya Popovic
We present a 4 : 1 superconducting transmission-line impedance transformer for cryogenic applications. The device transforms 25 {Ω} in the coplanar waveguide to 6.25 {Ω} in the microstrip and is designed to operate at 20 mK. Calibrated measurements in a

Quantum interference between two single photons of different microwave frequencies

April 20, 2012
Author(s)
Francois E. Nguyen, Eva A. Zakka-Bajjani, Jose A. Aumentado, Raymond W. Simmonds
Quantum interference is an important tool for fields such as lithography, metrology and quantum processing. Two identical optical photons (photons with the same wavelength and polarization) simultaneously sent through the two input ports of a semi

Quantum superposition of a single microwave photon in two different colour states

July 3, 2011
Author(s)
Eva A. Zakka-Bajjani, Francois E. Nguyen, Minhyea Lee, Leila R. Vale, Raymond Simmonds, Joe Aumentado
The ability to manipulate photonic states is an important tool for quantum information processing. In cavity quantum electrodynamics (QED), coupling between bosonic modes has, until now, required a qubit to mediate the interaction. As an alternative, it is