Josephson radiation threshold detector

S Ali, PH Ouyang, JX He, YQ Chai, LF Wei - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
A Josephson radiation threshold detector (JRTD) that is based on the threshold behaviour of
a current bias Josephson junction (CBJJ) is designed and fabricated for infrared radiation …

[HTML][HTML] A highly sensitive broadband superconducting thermoelectric single-photon detector

F Paolucci, G Germanese, A Braggio… - Applied Physics …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
We propose a passive single-photon detector based on the bipolar thermoelectric effect
occurring in tunnel junctions between two different superconductors thanks to spontaneous …

[HTML][HTML] Vanadium gate-controlled Josephson half-wave nanorectifier

C Puglia, G De Simoni, N Ligato, F Giazotto - Applied Physics Letters, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Recently, the possibility to tune the critical current of conventional metallic superconductors
via electrostatic gating was shown in wires, Josephson weak-links, and superconductor …

Materials and devices for fundamental quantum science and quantum technologies

M Polini, F Giazotto, KC Fong, IM Pop, C Schuck… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Technologies operating on the basis of quantum mechanical laws and resources such as
phase coherence and entanglement are expected to revolutionize our future. Quantum …

Nonlocal superconducting single-photon detector

F Paolucci - Physical Review Applied, 2023 - APS
We present and theoretically analyze the performance of a nonlocal superconducting single-
photon detector. The device operates due to the energy-to-phase conversion mechanism …

Development of highly sensitive nanoscale transition edge sensors for gigahertz astronomy and dark matter search

F Paolucci, V Buccheri, G Germanese… - Journal of Applied …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Terahertz (THz) and sub-terahertz (sub-THz) band detection has a key role in both
fundamental interactions physics and technological applications, such as medical imaging …

[HTML][HTML] GHz superconducting single-photon detectors for dark matter search

F Paolucci, F Giazotto - Instruments, 2021 - mdpi.com
The composition of dark matter is one of the puzzling topics in astrophysics. To address this
issue, several experiments searching for the existence of axions have been designed, built …

Millimeter‐Wave WISP Search with Coherent Light‐Shining‐Through‐a‐Wall Toward the STAX Project

A Miyazaki, T Lofnes, F Caspers, P Spagnolo… - Annalen der …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
A dark photon is one of the simplest extensions of the Standard Model of particle physics
and can be a dark matter candidate. Dark photons kinetically mix with ordinary photons. The …

Zeptojoule calorimetry

A Gunyhó, K Kohvakka, QM Chen, JP Girard… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
The measurement of energy is a fundamental tool used, for example, in exploring the early
universe, characterizing particle decay processes, as well as in quantum technology and …

Exploration to early universe by Josephson Junction Switching Current Detector

D Kondo - arxiv preprint arxiv:2407.13630, 2024 - arxiv.org
In this paper, we propose a method to probe a Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background
(SGWB) with Josephson Junction Switching Current Detector (JJSCD). The sensitivity for the …