22 research outputs found
Impurity Knight shift in quantum dot Josephson junctions
Spectroscopy of a Josephson junction device with an embedded quantum dot
reveals the presence of a contribution to level splitting in external magnetic
field that is proportional to , where is the gauge-invariant
phase difference across the junction. To elucidate the origin of this
unanticipated effect, we systematically study the Zeeman splitting of spinful
subgap states in the superconducting Anderson impurity model. The magnitude of
the splitting is renormalized by the exchange interaction between the local
moment and the continuum of Bogoliubov quasiparticles in a variant of the
Knight shift phenomenon. The leading term in the shift is linear in the
hybridisation strength (quadratic in electron hopping), while the
subleading term is quadratic in (quartic in electron hopping) and
depends on due to spin-polarization-dependent corrections to the
Josephson energy of the device. The amplitude of the -dependent part is
largest for experimentally relevant parameters beyond the perturbative regime
where it is investigated using numerical renormalization group calculations.
Such magnetic-field-tunable coupling between the quantum dot spin and the
Josephson current could find wide use in superconducting spintronics.Comment: 18 pages, 13 figures. Perturbation theory results available as
supplemental material, NRG calculation input files available on Zenod
Gate-tunable kinetic inductance parametric amplifier
Superconducting parametric amplifiers play a crucial role in the preparation
and readout of quantum states at microwave frequencies, enabling high-fidelity
measurements of superconducting qubits. Most existing implementations of these
amplifiers rely on the nonlinearity from Josephson junctions, superconducting
quantum interference devices or disordered superconductors. Additionally,
frequency tunability arises typically from either flux or current biasing. In
contrast, semiconductor-based parametric amplifiers are tunable by local
electric fields, which impose a smaller thermal load on the cryogenic setup
than current and flux biasing and lead to vanishing crosstalk to other on-chip
quantum systems. In this work, we present a gate-tunable parametric amplifier
that operates without Josephson junctions, utilizing a proximitized
semiconducting nanowire. This design achieves near-quantum-limited performance,
featuring more than 20 dB gain and a 30 MHz gain-bandwidth product. The absence
of Josephson junctions allows for advantages, including substantial saturation
powers of -120dBm, magnetic field compatibility up to 500 mT and frequency
tunability over a range of 15 MHz. Our realization of a parametric amplifier
supplements efforts towards gate-controlled superconducting electronics,
further advancing the abilities for high-performing quantum measurements of
semiconductor-based and superconducting quantum devices.Comment: 12 pages, 11 figure
Strong tunable coupling between two distant superconducting spin qubits
Superconducting (or Andreev) spin qubits have recently emerged as an
alternative qubit platform with realizations in semiconductor-superconductor
hybrid nanowires. In these qubits, the spin degree of freedom is intrinsically
coupled to the supercurrent across a Josephson junction via the spin-orbit
interaction, which facilitates fast, high-fidelity spin readout using circuit
quantum electrodynamics techniques. Moreover, this spin-supercurrent coupling
has been predicted to facilitate inductive multi-qubit coupling. In this work,
we demonstrate a strong supercurrent-mediated coupling between two distant
Andreev spin qubits. This qubit-qubit interaction is of the longitudinal type
and we show that it is both gate- and flux-tunable up to a coupling strength of
178 MHz. Finally, we find that the coupling can be switched off in-situ using a
magnetic flux. Our results demonstrate that integrating microscopic spin states
into a superconducting qubit architecture can combine the advantages of both
semiconductors and superconducting circuits and pave the way to fast two-qubit
gates between remote spins.Comment: 26 pages, 27 figure
Studying Light-Harvesting Models with Superconducting Circuits
The process of photosynthesis, the main source of energy in the animate
world, converts sunlight into chemical energy. The surprisingly high efficiency
of this process is believed to be enabled by an intricate interplay between the
quantum nature of molecular structures in photosynthetic complexes and their
interaction with the environment. Investigating these effects in biological
samples is challenging due to their complex and disordered structure. Here we
experimentally demonstrate a new approach for studying photosynthetic models
based on superconducting quantum circuits. In particular, we demonstrate the
unprecedented versatility and control of our method in an engineered three-site
model of a pigment protein complex with realistic parameters scaled down in
energy by a factor of . With this system we show that the excitation
transport between quantum coherent sites disordered in energy can be enabled
through the interaction with environmental noise. We also show that the
efficiency of the process is maximized for structured noise resembling
intramolecular phononic environments found in photosynthetic complexes.Comment: 8+12 pages, 4+12 figure
Observation of vanishing charge dispersion of a nearly-open superconducting island
Isolation from the environment determines the extent to which charge is
confined on an island, which manifests as Coulomb oscillations such as charge
dispersion. We investigate the charge dispersion of a nanowire transmon hosting
a quantum dot in the junction. We observe rapid suppression of the charge
dispersion with increasing junction transparency, consistent with the predicted
scaling law which incorporates two branches of the Josephson potential. We find
improved qubit coherence times at the point of highest suppression, suggesting
novel approaches for building charge-insensitive qubits
A gate-tunable, field-compatible fluxonium
Circuit quantum electrodynamics, where photons are coherently coupled to
artificial atoms built with superconducting circuits, has enabled the
investigation and control of macroscopic quantum-mechanical phenomena in
superconductors. Recently, hybrid circuits incorporating semiconducting
nanowires and other electrostatically-gateable elements have provided new
insights into mesoscopic superconductivity. Extending the capabilities of
hybrid flux-based circuits to work in magnetic fields would be especially
useful both as a probe of spin-polarized Andreev bound states and as a possible
platform for topological qubits. The fluxonium is particularly suitable as a
readout circuit for topological qubits due to its unique persistent-current
based eigenstates. In this Letter, we present a magnetic-field compatible
hybrid fluxonium with an electrostatically-tuned semiconducting nanowire as its
non-linear element. We operate the fluxonium in magnetic fields up to 1T and
use it to observe the -Josephson effect. This combination of
gate-tunability and field-compatibility opens avenues for the exploration and
control of spin-polarized phenomena using superconducting circuits and enables
the use of the fluxonium as a readout device for topological qubits
Direct manipulation of a superconducting spin qubit strongly coupled to a transmon qubit
Spin qubits in semiconductors are currently one of the most promising
architectures for quantum computing. However, they face challenges in realizing
multi-qubit interactions over extended distances. Superconducting spin qubits
provide a promising alternative by encoding a qubit in the spin degree of
freedom of an Andreev level. Such an Andreev spin qubit could leverage the
advantages of circuit quantum electrodynamic, enabled by an intrinsic
spin-supercurrent coupling. The first realization of an Andreev spin qubit
encoded the qubit in the excited states of a semiconducting weak-link, leading
to frequent decay out of the computational subspace. Additionally, rapid qubit
manipulation was hindered by the need for indirect Raman transitions. Here, we
exploit a different qubit subspace, using the spin-split doublet ground state
of an electrostatically-defined quantum dot Josephson junction with large
charging energy. Additionally, we use a magnetic field to enable direct spin
manipulation over a frequency range of 10 GHz. Using an all-electric microwave
drive we achieve Rabi frequencies exceeding 200 MHz. We furthermore embed the
Andreev spin qubit in a superconducting transmon qubit, demonstrating strong
coherent qubit-qubit coupling. These results are a crucial step towards a
hybrid architecture that combines the beneficial aspects of both
superconducting and semiconductor qubits
Spectroscopy of spin-split Andreev levels in a quantum dot with superconducting leads
We use a hybrid superconductor-semiconductor transmon device to perform
spectroscopy of a quantum dot Josephson junction tuned to be in a spin-1/2
ground state with an unpaired quasiparticle. Due to spin-orbit coupling, we
resolve two flux-sensitive branches in the transmon spectrum, depending on the
spin of the quasi-particle. A finite magnetic field shifts the two branches in
energy, favoring one spin state and resulting in the anomalous Josephson
effect. We demonstrate the excitation of the direct spin-flip transition using
all-electrical control. Manipulation and control of the spin-flip transition
enable the future implementation of charging energy protected Andreev spin
qubits.Comment: Updated references. Main: 8 pages, 4 figures. Supplement: 19 pages,
13 figure
Electric field tunable superconductor-semiconductor coupling in Majorana nanowires
We study the effect of external electric fields on
superconductor-semiconductor coupling by measuring the electron transport in
InSb semiconductor nanowires coupled to an epitaxially grown Al superconductor.
We find that the gate voltage induced electric fields can greatly modify the
coupling strength, which has consequences for the proximity induced
superconducting gap, effective g-factor, and spin-orbit coupling, which all
play a key role in understanding Majorana physics. We further show that level
repulsion due to spin-orbit coupling in a finite size system can lead to
seemingly stable zero bias conductance peaks, which mimic the behavior of
Majorana zero modes. Our results improve the understanding of realistic
Majorana nanowire systems.Comment: 10 pages, 5 figures, supplemental information as ancillary fil
Data processing and plotting underlying the manuscript: Mitigation of quasiparticle loss in superconducting qubits by phonon scattering
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