Colloquium: Spin-orbit effects in superconducting hybrid structures

M Amundsen, J Linder, JWA Robinson, I Žutić… - Reviews of Modern …, 2024 - APS
Spin-orbit coupling (SOC) relates to the interaction between an electron's motion and its spin
and is ubiquitous in solid-state systems. Although the effect of SOC in normal-state …

A Josephson phase battery

E Strambini, A Iorio, O Durante, R Citro… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
A classical battery converts chemical energy into a persistent voltage bias that can power
electronic circuits. Similarly, a phase battery is a quantum device that provides a persistent …

Singlet-doublet transitions of a quantum dot Josephson junction detected in a transmon circuit

A Bargerbos, M Pita-Vidal, R Žitko, J Ávila, LJ Splitthoff… - PRX Quantum, 2022 - APS
We realize a hybrid superconductor-semiconductor transmon device in which the
Josephson effect is controlled by a gate-defined quantum dot in an In As-Al nanowire …

Strong tunable coupling between two distant superconducting spin qubits

M Pita-Vidal, JJ Wesdorp, LJ Splitthoff, A Bargerbos… - Nature Physics, 2024 - nature.com
Andreev spin qubits have recently emerged as an alternative qubit platform with realizations
in semiconductor–superconductor hybrid nanowires. In these qubits, the spin degree of …

Demonstration of the nonlocal Josephson effect in Andreev molecules

DZ Haxell, M Coraiola, M Hinderling, SC Ten Kate… - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
We perform switching current measurements of planar Josephson junctions (JJs) coupled by
a common superconducting electrode with independent control over the two …

Direct Microwave Spectroscopy of Andreev Bound States in Planar Josephson Junctions

M Hinderling, SC Ten Kate, M Coraiola, DZ Haxell… - PRX Quantum, 2024 - APS
We demonstrate microwave measurements of the Andreev-bound-state (ABS) spectrum in
planar Josephson junctions (JJs) defined in Ge high-mobility two-dimensional hole gases …

Granular aluminium nanojunction fluxonium qubit

D Rieger, S Günzler, M Spiecker, P Paluch, P Winkel… - Nature Materials, 2023 - nature.com
Mesoscopic Josephson junctions, consisting of overlap** superconducting electrodes
separated by a nanometre-thin oxide layer, provide a precious source of nonlinearity for …

Quasiparticles in superconducting qubits with asymmetric junctions

G Marchegiani, L Amico, G Catelani - PRX Quantum, 2022 - APS
Designing the spatial profile of the superconducting gap—gap engineering—has long been
recognized as an effective way of controlling quasiparticles in superconducting devices. In …

Implementation of a transmon qubit using superconducting granular aluminum

P Winkel, K Borisov, L Grünhaupt, D Rieger… - Physical Review X, 2020 - APS
The high kinetic inductance offered by granular aluminum (grAl) has recently been
employed for linear inductors in superconducting high-impedance qubits and kinetic …

Gate-tunable superconductor-semiconductor parametric amplifier

D Phan, P Falthansl-Scheinecker, U Mishra… - Physical Review …, 2023 - APS
We build a parametric amplifier with a Josephson field-effect transistor (JoFET) as the active
element. The resonant frequency of the device is field-effect tunable over a range of 2 GHz …