Circuit quantum electrodynamics

A Blais, AL Grimsmo, SM Girvin, A Wallraff - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2021‏ - APS
Quantum-mechanical effects at the macroscopic level were first explored in Josephson-
junction-based superconducting circuits in the 1980s. In recent decades, the emergence of …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] A quantum engineer's guide to superconducting qubits

P Krantz, M Kjaergaard, F Yan, TP Orlando… - Applied physics …, 2019‏ - pubs.aip.org
The aim of this review is to provide quantum engineers with an introductory guide to the
central concepts and challenges in the rapidly accelerating field of superconducting …

Superconducting parametric amplifiers: The state of the art in Josephson parametric amplifiers

J Aumentado - IEEE Microwave magazine, 2020‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In superconducting quantum computing, qubit state information is conveyed via low-power
microwave fields. As such, ultralow-noise microwave amplification plays a central role in …

Transmon qubit readout fidelity at the threshold for quantum error correction without a quantum-limited amplifier

L Chen, HX Li, Y Lu, CW Warren, CJ Križan… - npj Quantum …, 2023‏ - nature.com
High-fidelity and rapid readout of a qubit state is key to quantum computing and
communication, and it is a prerequisite for quantum error correction. We present a readout …

Microwave quantum illumination using a digital receiver

S Barzanjeh, S Pirandola, D Vitali, JM Fink - Science advances, 2020‏ - science.org
Quantum illumination uses entangled signal-idler photon pairs to boost the detection
efficiency of low-reflectivity objects in environments with bright thermal noise. Its advantage …

Perspective on traveling wave microwave parametric amplifiers

M Esposito, A Ranadive, L Planat, N Roch - Applied Physics Letters, 2021‏ - pubs.aip.org
Quantum-limited microwave parametric amplifiers are genuine key pillars for rising quantum
technologies and, in general, for applications that rely on the successful readout of weak …

Introduction to quantum noise, measurement, and amplification

AA Clerk, MH Devoret, SM Girvin, F Marquardt… - Reviews of Modern …, 2010‏ - APS
The topic of quantum noise has become extremely timely due to the rise of quantum
information physics and the resulting interchange of ideas between the condensed matter …

Quantum-enhanced noise radar

CW Chang, AM Vadiraj, J Bourassa, B Balaji… - Applied Physics …, 2019‏ - pubs.aip.org
We propose a protocol for quantum illumination: a quantum-enhanced noise radar. A two-
mode squeezed state, which exhibits continuous-variable entanglement between so-called …

Colloquium: Stimulating uncertainty: Amplifying the quantum vacuum <?format ?>with superconducting circuits

PD Nation, JR Johansson, MP Blencowe, F Nori - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2012‏ - APS
The ability to generate particles from the quantum vacuum is one of the most profound
consequences of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. Although the significance of vacuum …