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A Tunable Coupler for Superconducting Microwave Resonators Using A Nonlinear Kinetic Inductance Transmission Line

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Author(s)

Jiansong Gao, Michael R. Vissers, Johannes Hubmayr, Bockstiegel Clint, Saptarshi Chaudhuri

Abstract

We present a tunable coupler scheme that allows us to tune the coupling strength between a feedline and a superconducting resonator in situ over a wide range. In this scheme, we shunt the feedline by a 50-ohm lumped-element nonlinear transmission line made from a 20 nm NbTiN film. By injecting a DC current, the nonlinear kinetic inductance is changed and the effective impedance shunting the resonator periodically varies from a short to an open, which tunes the coupling strength and coupling quality factor Qc. We have demonstrated Qc tuning over a factor of 40, between Qc~5.5e4 and Qc~2.3e6, for a 4.5 GHz resonator by applying a DC current less than 3.3 mA. Our tunable coupler scheme is easy to implement and may find broad applications in superconducting detector and quantum computing/information experiments.
Citation
Applied Physics Letters
Volume
108

Keywords

Superconducting Detector, Kinetic Inductance, Quantum Computing

Citation

Gao, J. , Vissers, M. , Hubmayr, J. , Clint, B. and Chaudhuri, S. (2016), A Tunable Coupler for Superconducting Microwave Resonators Using A Nonlinear Kinetic Inductance Transmission Line, Applied Physics Letters, [online], https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4953209 (Accessed October 8, 2024)

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Created June 3, 2016, Updated November 10, 2018