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 …

Evidence of dual Shapiro steps in a Josephson junction array

N Crescini, S Cailleaux, W Guichard, C Naud… - Nature Physics, 2023 - nature.com
The modern primary voltage standard is based on the ac Josephson effect and the ensuing
Shapiro steps, where a microwave tone applied to a Josephson junction yields a constant …

Antibunched -photon bundles emitted by a Josephson photonic device

S Ma, X Li, Y Ren, J **e, F Li - Physical Review Research, 2021 - APS
We propose an experimentally feasible scheme for generating antibunched N-photon
bundles by a dc voltage-biased Josephson junction in series with a superconducting …

Emission of nonclassical radiation by inelastic Cooper pair tunneling

M Westig, B Kubala, O Parlavecchio, Y Mukharsky… - Physical Review Letters, 2017 - APS
We show that a properly dc-biased Josephson junction in series with two microwave
resonators of different frequencies emits photon pairs in the resonators. By measuring auto …

Microwave photon-number amplification

R Albert, J Griesmar, F Blanchet, U Martel, N Bourlet… - Physical Review X, 2024 - APS
We experimentally demonstrate a microwave photon-multiplication scheme which combines
the advantages of a single-photon detector and a power meter by multiplying the incoming …

Two-tone spectroscopy of high-frequency quantum circuits with a Josephson emitter

A Peugeot, H Riechert, S Annabi, L Balembois… - Physical Review …, 2024 - APS
We perform two-tone spectroscopy on quantum circuits, where high-frequency radiation is
generated by a voltage-biased superconductor-normal-superconductor Josephson junction …

Fock-state stabilization and emission in superconducting circuits using dc-biased Josephson junctions

JR Souquet, AA Clerk - Physical Review A, 2016 - APS
We present and analyze a reservoir-engineering approach to stabilizing Fock states in a
superconducting microwave cavity which does not require any microwave-frequency control …

Bright on-demand source of antibunched microwave photons based on inelastic Cooper pair tunneling

A Grimm, F Blanchet, R Albert, J Leppäkangas… - Physical Review X, 2019 - APS
Single-photon generation is an important proof of the underlying quantum nature of a
physical process and a ubiquitous tool for scientific exploration, with applications ranging …

Multi-photon resonances in Josephson junction-cavity circuits

B Lang, AD Armour - New Journal of Physics, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We explore the dissipative dynamics of nonlinearly driven oscillator systems tuned to
resonances where multiple excitations are generated. Such systems are readily realised in …

Critical Josephson current in the dynamical Coulomb blockade regime

B Jäck, M Eltschka, M Assig, M Etzkorn, CR Ast, K Kern - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
The current-voltage characteristics of a voltage-biased Josephson junction in the low
conductance regime of an ultra-low temperature scanning tunneling microscope (STM) is …