Superconducting microresonators: Physics and applications

J Zmuidzinas - Annu. Rev. Condens. Matter Phys., 2012 - annualreviews.org
Interest in superconducting microresonators has grown dramatically over the past decade.
Resonator performance has improved substantially through the use of improved geometries …

Single-electron current sources: Toward a refined definition of the ampere

JP Pekola, OP Saira, VF Maisi, A Kemppinen… - Reviews of Modern …, 2013 - APS
The control of electrons at the level of the elementary charge e was demonstrated
experimentally already in the 1980s. Ever since, the production of an electrical current ef, or …

Engineering thermal conductance using a two-dimensional phononic crystal

N Zen, TA Puurtinen, TJ Isotalo, S Chaudhuri… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Controlling thermal transport has become relevant in recent years. Traditionally, this control
has been achieved by tuning the scattering of phonons by including various types of …

Micrometre-scale refrigerators

JT Muhonen, M Meschke… - Reports on Progress in …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
A superconductor with a gap in the density of states or a quantum dot with discrete energy
levels is a central building block in realizing an electronic on-chip cooler. They can work as …

[HTML][HTML] Quantum-circuit refrigerator

KY Tan, M Partanen, RE Lake, J Govenius… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Quantum technology promises revolutionizing applications in information processing,
communications, sensing and modelling. However, efficient on-demand cooling of the …

Predicted very large thermoelectric effect in ferromagnet-superconductor junctions in the presence of a spin-splitting magnetic field

A Ozaeta, P Virtanen, FS Bergeret, TT Heikkilä - Physical review letters, 2014 - APS
We show that a huge thermoelectric effect can be observed by contacting a superconductor
whose density of states is spin split by a Zeeman field with a ferromagnet with a nonzero …

A superconductor free of quasiparticles for seconds

ET Mannila, P Samuelsson, S Simbierowicz… - Nature Physics, 2022 - nature.com
Superconducting devices, based on the Cooper pairing of electrons, play an important role
in existing and emergent technologies, ranging from radiation detectors, to quantum …

Superconductor-ferromagnet hybrids for non-reciprocal electronics and detectors

Z Geng, A Hijano, S Ilić, M Ilyn, I Maasilta… - Superconductor …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We review the use of hybrid thin films composed of superconductors and ferromagnets for
creating non-reciprocal electronic components and self-biased detectors of electromagnetic …

Thermal conductance of a single-electron transistor

B Dutta, JT Peltonen, DS Antonenko, M Meschke… - Physical review …, 2017 - APS
We report on combined measurements of heat and charge transport through a single-
electron transistor. The device acts as a heat switch actuated by the voltage applied on the …

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 …