Microwave photonics with superconducting quantum circuits

X Gu, AF Kockum, A Miranowicz, Y Liu, F Nori - Physics Reports, 2017 - Elsevier
In the past 20 years, impressive progress has been made both experimentally and
theoretically in superconducting quantum circuits, which provide a platform for manipulating …

Demonstration of an ac Josephson junction laser

MC Cassidy, A Bruno, S Rubbert, M Irfan… - Science, 2017 - science.org
Superconducting electronic devices have reemerged as contenders for both classical and
quantum computing due to their fast operation speeds, low dissipation, and long coherence …

Integrated and DC-powered superconducting microcomb

CG Wang, W Xu, C Li, L Shi, J Jiang, T Guo… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Frequency combs, specialized laser sources emitting multiple equidistant frequency lines,
have revolutionized science and technology with unprecedented precision and versatility …

Antibunched -photon bundles emitted by a Josephson photonic device

S Ma, X Li, Y Ren, J Xie, F Li - Physical Review Research, 2021 - APS
We propose an experimentally feasible scheme for generating antibunched N-photon
bundles by a dc voltage-biased Josephson junction in series with a superconducting …

A low-noise on-chip coherent microwave source

C Yan, J Hassel, V Vesterinen, J Zhang, J Ikonen… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The scaling up of quantum computers operating in the microwave domain requires
advanced control electronics, and the use of integrated components that operate at the …

Emission of nonclassical radiation by inelastic Cooper pair tunneling

M Westig, B Kubala, O Parlavecchio, Y Mukharsky… - Physical Review Letters, 2017 - APS
We show that a properly dc-biased Josephson junction in series with two microwave
resonators of different frequencies emits photon pairs in the resonators. By measuring auto …

Topological nature of the proper spin current and the spin-Hall torque

H Liu, JH Cullen, D Culcer - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
Spin currents are key to spin torque devices, but determining the proper spin current is
nontrivial. Here we derive a general quantum-mechanical formula for the intrinsic proper …

A cavity-Cooper pair transistor scheme for investigating quantum optomechanics in the ultra-strong coupling regime

AJ Rimberg, MP Blencowe, AD Armour… - New Journal of …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
We propose a scheme involving a Cooper pair transistor (CPT) embedded in a
superconducting microwave cavity, where the CPT serves as a charge tunable quantum …

Antibunched photons emitted by a dc-biased Josephson junction

C Rolland, A Peugeot, S Dambach, M Westig… - Physical review …, 2019 - APS
We show experimentally that a dc biased Josephson junction in series with a high-enough-
impedance microwave resonator emits antibunched photons. Our resonator is made of a …

Conserved current of nonconserved quantities

C Xiao, Q Niu - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
We provide a unified semiclassical theory for the conserved current of nonconserved
quantities, and manifest it in two physical contexts: the spin current of Bloch electrons and …