Towards understanding two-level-systems in amorphous solids: insights from quantum circuits

C Müller, JH Cole, J Lisenfeld - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Amorphous solids show surprisingly universal behaviour at low temperatures. The
prevailing wisdom is that this can be explained by the existence of two-state defects within …

Materials origins of decoherence in superconducting qubits

R McDermott - IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Superconducting integrated circuits incorporating Josephson junctions are an attractive
candidate for scalable quantum information processing in the solid state. The strong …

Elimination of two level fluctuators in superconducting quantum bits by an epitaxial tunnel barrier

S Oh, K Cicak, JS Kline, MA Sillanpää, KD Osborn… - Physical Review B …, 2006 - APS
Quantum computing based on Josephson junction technology is considered promising due
to its scalable architecture. However, decoherence is a major obstacle. Here, we report …

Are “Pinholes” the Cause of Excess Current in Superconducting Tunnel Junctions?<? format?> A Study of Andreev Current in Highly Resistive Junctions

T Greibe, MPV Stenberg, CM Wilson, T Bauch… - Physical review …, 2011 - APS
In highly resistive superconducting tunnel junctions, excess subgap current is usually
observed and is often attributed to microscopic pinholes in the tunnel barrier. We have …

Why the long-term charge offset drift in Si single-electron tunneling transistors is much smaller (better) than in metal-based ones: Two-level fluctuator stability

NM Zimmerman, WH Huber, B Simonds… - Journal of Applied …, 2008 - pubs.aip.org
A common observation in metal-based (specifically, those with Al O x tunnel junctions)
single-electron tunneling (SET) devices is a time-dependent instability known as the long …

Bottom-up superconducting and Josephson junction devices inside a group-IV semiconductor

YP Shim, C Tahan - Nature communications, 2014 - nature.com
Superconducting circuits are exceptionally flexible, enabling many different devices from
sensors to quantum computers. Separately, epitaxial semiconductor devices such as spin …

Superconducting nanowires as nonlinear inductive elements for qubits

J Ku, V Manucharyan, A Bezryadin - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter …, 2010 - APS
We report microwave transmission measurements of superconducting Fabry-Perot
resonators, having a superconducting nanowire placed at a supercurrent antinode. As the …

[HTML][HTML] Cryogenic microwave loss in epitaxial Al/GaAs/Al trilayers for superconducting circuits

CRH McRae, A McFadden, R Zhao, H Wang… - Journal of Applied …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Epitaxially grown superconductor/dielectric/superconductor trilayers have the potential to
form high-performance superconducting quantum devices and may even allow scalable …

Fabrication of Josephson Junctions Using In Situ Magnetron Sputtering and Atomic Layer Deposition

R Lu, AJ Elliot, L Wille, B Mao, S Han… - IEEE transactions on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Atomic layer deposition (ALD) provides a promising approach for deposition of ultrathin low-
defect-density tunnel barriers, and it has been implemented in a high-vacuum magnetron …

Epitaxial aluminum nitride tunnel barriers grown by nitridation with a plasma source

T Zijlstra, CFJ Lodewijk, N Vercruyssen… - Applied Physics …, 2007 - pubs.aip.org
High critical current-density (10 to 420 kA∕ cm 2) superconductor-insulator-superconductor
tunnel junctions with aluminum nitride barriers have been realized using a remote nitrogen …