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Noise and loss of superconducting aluminium resonators at single photon energies
The loss and noise mechanisms of superconducting resonators are useful tools
for understanding decoherence in superconducting circuits. While the loss
mechanisms have been heavily studied, noise in superconducting resonators has
only recently been investigated. In particular, there is an absence of
literature on noise in the single photon limit. Here, we measure the loss and
noise of an aluminium on silicon quarter-wavelength () resonator in
the single photon regime.Comment: LT28 Conference proceeding, to be published in IOP Conference Serie
Comparison of Single-Grip Harvester Productivity in Clear- and Shelterwood Cutting
An increased interest in the use of shelterwood stands to promote regeneration has led to an interest in how singlegrip harvester productivity is affected by shelterwood cutting compared to clearcutting. A comparative time study of a large singlegrip harvester was made in a spruce stand in northern Sweden. Three treatments were used. Shelterwood cutting leaving: 1) a sparse stand, 2) a dense residual stand, and 3) clearcutting. Each treatment was replicated three times. Results show that productivity decreases from 64 m3 per effective hour in clearcutting to 54 and 41 m3 per effective hour when shelterwoods with 259 and 381 stems ha1, respectively, were retained
Labor Supply Responses to New Rural Social Pension Insurance in China: A Regression Discontinuity Approach
Transitioning into retirement is an under-researched phenomenon in developing countries. Largely, this is linked to a predominance of contexts where – in particular – the rural population remains outside the coverage of any formal pension system. In 2008, China introduced the New Rural Social Pension (NRSP), a program which by now covers the majority of the Chinese rural elderly. This paper examines the effects of the NRSP on the labor supply of the elderly in rural China. As pension benefit eligibility at the time of its implementation is conditional on age, a regression discontinuity design is applied to investigate the casual effect of the receipt of pension benefits on labor supply. Furthermore, as the NRSP is neither means-tested nor conditions on retirement, it induces a pure income effect on employment. Using data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study, a nationally representative data set, we find that the receipt of pension benefits increases the probability of retirement among the rural elderly by around 15%
Period-tripling subharmonic oscillations in a driven superconducting resonator
We have observed period-tripling subharmonic oscillations, in a
superconducting coplanar waveguide resonator operated in the quantum regime,
. The resonator is terminated by a tunable inductance
that provides a Kerr-type nonlinearity. We detected the output field
quadratures at frequencies near the fundamental mode, GHz, when the resonator was driven by a current at with an
amplitude exceeding an instability threshold. The output radiation was
red-detuned from the fundamental mode. We observed three stable radiative
states with equal amplitudes and phase-shifted by . The
downconversion from to is strongly enhanced by resonant
excitation of the second mode of the resonator, and the cross-Kerr effect. Our
experimental results are in quantitative agreement with a model for the driven
dynamics of two coupled modes
Labor Supply Responses to New Rural Pension Insurances in China: A Regression Discontinuity Approach
Transitioning into retirement is an under-researched phenomenon in developing countries. Largely, this is linked to a predominance of contexts where –in particular –the rural population remains outside the coverage of any formal pension system. In 2008, China introduced the New Rural Social Pension (NRSP), a program which by now covers the majority of the Chinese rural elderly. This paper examines the effects of the NRSP on the labor supply of the elderly in rural China. As pension benefit eligibility at the time of its implementation is conditional on age, a regression discontinuity design is applied to investigate the casual effect of the receipt of pension benefits on labor supply. Furthermore, as the NRSP isneither means-tested nor conditions on retirement, it induces a pure income effect on employment. Using data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study, a nationally representative data set, we find that the receipt of pension benefitsincreases the probability of retirement among the rural elderly by around 15%
Decoherence benchmarking of superconducting qubits
We benchmark the decoherence of superconducting qubits to examine the
temporal stability of energy-relaxation and dephasing. By collecting statistics
during measurements spanning multiple days, we find the mean parameters
= 49 s and = 95 s, however,
both of these quantities fluctuate explaining the need for frequent
re-calibration in qubit setups. Our main finding is that fluctuations in qubit
relaxation are local to the qubit and are caused by instabilities of
near-resonant two-level-systems (TLS). Through statistical analysis, we
determine switching rates of these TLS and observe the coherent coupling
between an individual TLS and a transmon qubit. Finally, we find evidence that
the qubit's frequency stability is limited by capacitance noise. Importantly,
this produces a 0.8 ms limit on the pure dephasing which we also observe.
Collectively, these findings raise the need for performing qubit metrology to
examine the reproducibility of qubit parameters, where these fluctuations could
affect qubit gate fidelity.Comment: 15 pages ArXiv version rev
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Period multiplication in a parametrically driven superconducting resonator
We report on the experimental observation of period multiplication in
parametrically driven tunable superconducting resonators. We modulate the
magnetic flux through a superconducting quantum interference device, attached
to a quarter-wavelength resonator, with frequencies close to
multiples, , of the resonator fundamental mode and observe
intense output radiation at . The output field manifests -fold
degeneracy with respect to the phase, the states are phase shifted by
with respect to each other. Our demonstration verifies the theoretical
prediction by Guo et al. in PRL 111, 205303 (2013), and paves the way for
engineering complex macroscopic quantum cat states with microwave photons
Dynamic Description with Computer Supported Pictures
A methodology was developed and tested in six case studies at four medium-sized manufacturing companies within the machine engineering industry. Existing and planned work environments and production processes were described with the aid of computer-generated pictures. The pictures were used within the framework of an action research methodology in which managers and those employees affected, together with trade unions and company health care representatives, cooperated to establish the preconditions for improved planning from the point of view of both productivity and work environment. The picture methodology using animated pictures, developed to create and present two- and three-dimensional views of a computer model with manipulable objects, was tested both in a workshop with 20 participants from manufacturing companies and corporate health care and in an experimental study with 30 psychology students as experimental subjects. At a Community College with an artistic bet, the way in which different groups within the college described its organization with the aid of pictures and symbols was studied
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