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Samkharadze, Nodar (author), Bruno, A. (author), Scarlino, P. (author), Zheng, G. (author), Divincenzo, D.P. (author), DiCarlo, L. (author), Vandersypen, L.M.K. (author)We present superconducting microwave-frequency resonators based on NbTiN nanowires. The small cross section of the nanowires minimizes vortex generation, making the resonators resilient to magnetic fields. Measured intrinsic quality factors exceed 2×105 in a 6-T in-plane magnetic field and 3×104 in a 350-mT perpendicular magnetic field....journal article 2016
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Jerger, Markus (author), Reshitnyk, Yarema (author), Oppliger, Markus (author), Potočnik, Anton (author), Mondal, Mintu (author), Wallraff, Andreas (author), Goodenough, K.D. (author), Wehner, S.D.C. (author), Juliusson, Kristinn (author), Langford, N.K. (author), Fedorov, Arkady (author)Classical realism demands that system properties exist independently of whether they are measured, while noncontextuality demands that the results of measurements do not depend on what other measurements are performed in conjunction with them. The Bell–Kochen–Specker theorem states that noncontextual realism cannot reproduce the measurement...journal article 2016
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Redaelli, L. (author), Bulgarini, G. (author), Dobrovolskiy, S. (author), Dorenbos, S. N. (author), Zwiller, V.G. (author), Monroy, E (author), Gerard, J.A. (author)In this paper several designs to maximize the absorption efficiency of superconducting-nanowire single-photon detectors are investigated. Using a simple optical cavity consisting of a gold mirror and a SiO<sub>2</sub> layer, the absorption efficiency can be boosted to over 97%: this result is confirmed experimentally by the realization of an...journal article 2016
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Mooij, J.E. (author), Schön, G. (author), Shnirman, A. (author), Fuse, T. (author), Harmans, C.J.P.M. (author), Rotzinger, H. (author), Verbruggen, A.H. (author)Superconducting nanowires are the dual elements to Josephson junctions, with quantum phase-slip (QPS) processes replacing the tunneling of Cooper pairs. When the QPS amplitude ES is much smaller than the inductive energy EL, the nanowire responds as a superconducting inductor. When the inductive energy is small, the response is capacitive. The...journal article 2015
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Endo, A. (author)Since the birth of astrophysics, astronomers have been using free-space optics to analyze light falling on Earth. In the future however, thanks to the advances in photonics and nanoscience/nanotechnology, much of the manipulation of light might be carried out using not optics but confined waveguides, or circuits, on a chip. This new generation...journal article 2015
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Mezzacapo, A. (author), Las Heras, U. (author), Pedernales, J.S. (author), Di Carlo, L. (author), Solano, E. (author), Lamata, L. (author)We propose the analog-digital quantum simulation of the quantum Rabi and Dicke models using circuit quantum electrodynamics (QED). We find that all physical regimes, in particular those which are impossible to realize in typical cavity QED setups, can be simulated via unitary decomposition into digital steps. Furthermore, we show the emergence...journal article 2014
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Westig, M.P. (author), Selig, S. (author), Jacobs, K. (author), Klapwijk, T.M. (author), Honingh, C.E. (author)In this paper, we demonstrate experimentally the implementation of a niobium-trilayer junction with an aluminum-oxide tunnel barrier, embedded in a high-gap superconducting niobium-titanium-nitride circuit. Previously reported heating by quasiparticle trapping is removed by inserting a normal metal layer of gold between the niobium junction and...journal article 2013
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Echternach, P.M. (author), Stone, K.J. (author), Bradford, C.M. (author), Day, P.K. (author), Wilson, D.W. (author), Megerian, K.G. (author), Llombart Juan, N. (author), Bueno, J. (author)We observed a sweep rate dependence of the quantum capacitance in a single Cooper-Pair box used as the readout of a Quantum Capacitance Detector. A model was developed that fits the data over five orders of magnitude in sweep rate and optical signal power and provides a natural calibration of the absorbed power. We are thereby able to measure...journal article 2013
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Endo, A. (author), Sfiligoj, C. (author), Yates, S.J.C. (author), Baselmans, J.J.A. (author), Thoen, D.J. (author), Javadzadeh, S.M.H. (author), Van der Werf, P.P. (author), Baryshev, A.M. (author), Klapwijk, T.M. (author)We experimentally demonstrate the principle of an on-chip submillimeter wave filter bank spectrometer, using superconducting microresonators as narrow band-separation filters. The filters are made of NbTiN/SiNx/NbTiN microstrip line resonators, which have a resonance frequency in the range of 614-685?GHz, two orders of magnitude higher in...journal article 2013
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Azzouz, H. (author), Heeres, R.W. (author), Dorenbos, S.N. (author), Schouten, R.N. (author), Zwiller, V. (author)We propose and develop a readout scheme for superconducting single-photon detectors based on an integrated circuit, relaxing the need for large bandwidth amplification and resulting in voltage steps proportional to the number of detected photons. We also demonstrate time gating, to filter scattered light in time and reduce dark counts. This...journal article 2013
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Swenson, L.J. (author), Day, P.K. (author), Eom, B.H. (author), Leduc, H.G. (author), Llombart, N. (author), McKenney, C.M. (author), Noroozian, O. (author), Zmuidzinas, J. (author)If driven sufficiently strongly, superconducting microresonators exhibit nonlinear behavior including response bifurcation. This behavior can arise from a variety of physical mechanisms including heating effects, grain boundaries or weak links, vortex penetration, or through the intrinsic nonlinearity of the kinetic inductance. Although...journal article 2013
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Kloosterman, J.L. (author), Hayton, D.J. (author), Ren, Y. (author), Kao, T.Y. (author), Hovenier, J.N. (author), Gao, J.R. (author), Klapwijk, T.M. (author), Hu, Q. (author), Walker, C.K. (author), Reno, J.L. (author)We report on a heterodyne receiver designed to observe the astrophysically important neutral atomic oxygen [OI] line at 4.7448?THz. The local oscillator is a third-order distributed feedback quantum cascade laser operating in continuous wave mode at 4.741?THz. A quasi-optical, superconducting NbN hot electron bolometer is used as the mixer. We...journal article 2013
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Zuijderduin, R. (author), Chevtchenko, O. (author), Smit, J.J. (author), Aanhaanen, G. (author), Melnik, I. (author), Geschiere, A. (author)Due to increasing power demand, the electricity grid of the Netherlands is changing. The future grid must be capable to transmit all the connected power. Power generation will be more decentralized like for instance wind parks connected to the grid. Furthermore, future large scale production units are expected to be installed near coastal...journal article 2012
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Zuijderduin, R. (author), Chevtchenko, O. (author), Smit, J.J. (author), Willen, D. (author), Melnik, I. (author), Geschiere, A. (author)The future electricity grid will be more sustainable and it will have more power transmission and distribution capability with more electrical power added from decentralized sources on distribution level and from wind parks and other large sources on transmission level. More interconnections and more underground transmission and distribution...journal article 2012
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Zuijderduin, R. (author), Chevchenko, O. (author), Smit, J.J. (author), Aanhaanen, G. (author), Melnik, I. (author), Geschiere, A. (author)ue to increasing power demand, the electricity grid of the Netherlands is changing. The future transmission grid will obtain electrical power generated by decentralized renewable sources, together with large scale generation units located at the coastal region. In this way electrical power has to be distributed and transmitted over longer...journal article 2012
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Diener, P. (author), Schellevis, H. (author), Baselmans, J.J.A. (author)The low frequency complex impedance of a high resistivity 92?????cm and 100?nm thick TiN superconducting film has been measured via the transmission of several high sensitivity GHz microresonators, down to TC/50. The temperature dependence of the kinetic inductance follows closely BCS local electrodynamics, with one well defined superconducting...journal article 2012
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Heeres, R.W. (author), Zwiller, V. (author)We explore the dynamics of superconducting single-photon detectors (SSPDs) on the picosecond time-scale using a correlated photon-pair source based on spontaneous parametric downconversion (SPDC), corresponding to a pump-probe experiment at the single-photon level. We show that the detector can operate in a regime where the two-photon detection...journal article 2012
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Ren, Y. (author), Hayton, D.J. (author), Hovenier, J.N. (author), Cui, M. (author), Gao, J.R. (author), Klapwijk, T.M. (author), Shi, S.C. (author), Kao, T.Y. (author), Hu, Q. (author), Reno, J.L. (author)We demonstrate an experimental scheme to simultaneously stabilize the frequency and amplitude of a 3.5 THz third-order distributed feedback quantum cascade laser as a local oscillator. The frequency stabilization has been realized using a methanol absorption line, a power detector, and a proportional-integral-derivative (PID) loop. The amplitude...journal article 2012
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Hortensius, H.L. (author), Driessen, E.F.C. (author), Klapwijk, T.M. (author), Berggren, K.K. (author), Clem, J.R. (author)We demonstrate experimentally that the critical current in superconducting NbTiN wires is dependent on their geometrical shape, due to current-crowding effects. Geometric patterns such as 90? corners and sudden expansions of wire width are shown to result in the reduction of critical currents. The results are relevant for single-photon detectors...journal article 2012
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De Visser, P.J. (author), Baselmans, J.J.A. (author), Yates, S.J.C. (author), Diener, P. (author), Endo, A. (author), Klapwijk, T.M. (author)We have measured the number of quasiparticles and their lifetime in aluminium superconducting microwave resonators. The number of excess quasiparticles below 160?mK decreases from 72 to 17??m?3 with a 6?dB decrease of the microwave power. The quasiparticle lifetime increases accordingly from 1.4 to 3.5?ms. These properties of the superconductor...journal article 2012