Colloquium: Quantum heat transport in condensed matter systems

JP Pekola, B Karimi - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2021 - APS
In this Colloquium recent advances in the field of quantum heat transport are reviewed. This
topic has been investigated theoretically for several decades, but only during the past 20 …

Active initialization experiment of a superconducting qubit using a quantum circuit refrigerator

T Yoshioka, H Mukai, A Tomonaga, S Takada… - Physical Review …, 2023 - APS
The initialization of superconducting qubits is one of the essential techniques for the
realization of quantum computation. In previous research, initialization above 99% fidelity …

Recent Developments in Quantum‐Circuit Refrigeration

TF Mörstedt, A Viitanen, V Vadimov… - Annalen der …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The recent progress in direct active cooling of the quantum‐electric degrees of freedom in
engineered circuits, or quantum‐circuit refrigeration is reviewed. In 2017, the discovery of a …

[HTML][HTML] Initial experimental results on a superconducting-qubit reset based on photon-assisted quasiparticle tunneling

VA Sevriuk, W Liu, J Rönkkö, H Hsu, F Marxer… - Applied Physics …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
We present here our recent results on qubit reset scheme based on a quantum-circuit
refrigerator (QCR). In particular, we use the photon-assisted quasiparticle tunneling through …

Quantum coherence, many-body correlations, and non-thermal effects for autonomous thermal machines

CL Latune, I Sinayskiy, F Petruccione - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
One of the principal objectives of quantum thermodynamics is to explore quantum effects
and their potential beneficial role in thermodynamic tasks like work extraction or …

Continuous microwave photon counting by semiconductor-superconductor hybrids

S Haldar, D Barker, H Havir, A Ranni, S Lehmann… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
We present a continuous microwave photon counter based on superconducting cavity-
coupled semiconductor quantum dots. The device utilizes photon-assisted tunneling in a …

Quantum-circuit refrigeration of a superconducting microwave resonator well below a single quantum

A Viitanen, T Mörstedt, WS Teixeira, M Tiiri… - Physical Review …, 2024 - APS
We experimentally demonstrate a recently proposed single-junction quantum-circuit
refrigerator (QCR) as an in situ tunable low-temperature environment for a superconducting …

Co-Design quantum simulation of nanoscale NMR

MG Algaba, M Ponce-Martinez, C Munuera-Javaloy… - Physical Review …, 2022 - APS
Quantum computers have the potential to efficiently simulate the dynamics of nanoscale
NMR systems. In this work, we demonstrate that a noisy intermediate-scale quantum …

[HTML][HTML] Fast control of dissipation in a superconducting resonator

VA Sevriuk, KY Tan, E Hyyppä, M Silveri… - Applied Physics …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
We report on fast tunability of an electromagnetic environment coupled to a superconducting
coplanar waveguide resonator. Namely, we utilize a recently developed quantum-circuit …

Quantum bath engineering of a high impedance microwave mode through quasiparticle tunneling

G Aiello, M Féchant, A Morvan, J Basset… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
In microwave quantum optics, dissipation usually corresponds to quantum jumps, where
photons are lost one by one. Here we demonstrate a new approach to dissipation …