Fabrication and characterization of ultra-low noise narrow and wide band Josephson parametric amplifiers

We have fabricated two types of lumped-element Josephson parameter amplifiers (JPAs) by using a multilayer micro-fabrication process involving wet etching of Al films. The first type is a narrow band JPA which shows typical gain above 14 dB in a bandwidth around 35 MHz. The second type is a wideband JPA which is coupled to an input 50 Ω transmission line via an impedance transformer that changes the impedance from about 15 Ω on the non-linear resonator side to 50 Ω on the input transmission line side. The wideband JPA could operate in a 200 MHz range with a gain higher than 14 dB. The amplifiers were used for superconducting qubit readout. The results showed that the signal to noise ratio and hence the readout fidelity were improved significantly.     

Design of a gap tunable flux qubit with FastHenry

In the preparations of superconducting qubits, circuit design is a vital process because the parameters and layout of the circuit not only determine the way we address the qubits, but also strongly affect the qubit coherence properties. One of the most important circuit parameters, which needs to be carefully designed, is the mutual inductance among different parts of a superconducting circuit. In this paper we demonstrate how to design a gap-tunable flux qubit by layout design and inductance extraction using a fast field solver Fast Henry. The energy spectrum of the gap-tunable flux qubit shows that the measured parameters are close to the design values.     

规范势下正方形格点超导量子比特电路中的量子态输运

借助于电感型耦合器产生人造规范势(有效磁通),本文研究了正方形传输子量子比特模型中的量子态输运性质.理论计算发现,单粒子本征态与单空穴本征态具有相同的本征能谱,并且相同能量下,两者的平均粒子流与平均空穴流受有效磁通正弦调制后互为相反数.当初态为占据一个格点的单粒子与单空穴时,如果系统时间反演对称(有效磁通为4π的整数倍),单粒子与单空穴的含时波函数各分量相等,否则不等.分析证明,以上计算结果是由于对体系哈密顿量的粒子-空穴操作等价于对其做时间反演.此外还发现,有效磁通为π时,单粒子或单空穴只在初始比特与两个相邻比特之间输运,有效磁通为0时,单粒子或单空穴通过两个相邻比特输运到对角比特,然后再反向输运;无论有效磁通如何取值,两者具有相同的平均(粒子或空穴)流和格点占据概率.