Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors for quantum information

L You - Nanophotonics, 2020 - degruyter.com
The superconducting nanowire single-photon detector (SNSPD) is a quantum-limit
superconducting optical detector based on the Cooper-pair breaking effect by a single …

Broadband solenoidal haloscope for terahertz axion detection

J Liu, K Dona, G Hoshino, S Knirck, N Kurinsky… - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
We introduce the Broadband Reflector Experiment for Axion Detection (BREAD) conceptual
design and science program. This haloscope plans to search for bosonic dark matter across …

Superconducting photon detectors

DV Morozov, A Casaburi, RH Hadfield - Contemporary Physics, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The ability to detect individual light quanta–single photons–is prized across many fields of
physics from astronomy to quantum optics. Superconducting photon detectors offer …

Axion and hidden photon dark matter detection with multilayer optical haloscopes

M Baryakhtar, J Huang, R Lasenby - Physical Review D, 2018 - APS
A well-motivated class of dark matter candidates, including axions and dark photons, takes
the form of coherent oscillations of a light bosonic field. If the dark matter couples to standard …

Single-photon imager based on a superconducting nanowire delay line

QY Zhao, D Zhu, N Calandri, AE Dane… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Detecting spatial and temporal information of individual photons is critical to applications in
spectroscopy, communication, biological imaging, astronomical observation and quantum …

Improved superconducting qubit coherence using titanium nitride

JB Chang, MR Vissers, AD Córcoles… - Applied Physics …, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
We demonstrate enhanced relaxation and dephasing times of transmon qubits, up to∼ 60 μ
s⁠, by fabricating the interdigitated shunting capacitors using titanium nitride (TiN) …

Operation of a titanium nitride superconducting microresonator detector in the nonlinear regime

LJ Swenson, PK Day, BH Eom, HG Leduc… - Journal of Applied …, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
If driven sufficiently strongly, superconducting microresonators exhibit nonlinear behavior
including response bifurcation. This behavior can arise from a variety of physical …

Frequency-multiplexed bias and readout of a 16-pixel superconducting nanowire single-photon detector array

S Doerner, A Kuzmin, S Wuensch, I Charaev… - Applied Physics …, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
We demonstrate a 16-pixel array of microwave-current driven superconducting nanowire
single-photon detectors with an integrated and scalable frequency-division multiplexing …

Utilizing Gate-Controlled Supercurrent for All-Metallic Tunable Superconducting Microwave Resonators

Y Ryu, J Jeong, J Suh, J Kim, H Choi, J Cha - Nano Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
Hybridizing a microwave mode with a quantum state requires precise frequency matching of
a superconducting microwave resonator and the corresponding quantum object. However …

Counting near infrared photons with microwave kinetic inductance detectors

W Guo, X Liu, Y Wang, Q Wei, LF Wei… - Applied Physics …, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
We demonstrate photon counting at 1550 nm wavelength using microwave kinetic
inductance detectors (MKIDs) made from TiN/Ti/TiN trilayer films with superconducting …