Millimeter-Wave Four-Wave Mixing via Kinetic Inductance for Quantum Devices

ORAL

Abstract

Millimeter-wave superconducting devices offer transformative opportunities for quantum experiments at temperatures above 1K, allowing higher device power dissipation, integration with semiconductor technologies, as well as new avenues for studying light-matter interactions in the strong coupling regime. Using the intrinsic nonlinearity associated with kinetic inductance of thin film materials, we realize four-wave mixing at millimeter-wave frequencies: a key component for superconducting quantum systems. We report on the performance of low-loss planar resonators around 100 GHz, patterned on high kinetic inductance thin films of niobium nitride grown by atomic layer deposition. With two-tone spectroscopy we explore degenerate parametric conversion at single photon powers, paving the way for a new generation of high-frequency high-temperature quantum experiments.

*This research was supported by the Army Research Office under contract W911NF-17-C-0024.
Support was provided by the Chicago MRSEC, which is funded by NSF through grant DMR-1420709.

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Presenters

  • Alexander Anferov

    • University of Chicago

Authors

  • Alexander Anferov

    • University of Chicago

  • Aziza Suleymanzade

    • University of Chicago

  • Andrew Oriani

    • University of Chicago

  • Jonathan Simon

    • Physics, University of Chicago
    • University of Chicago

  • David I Schuster

    • University of Chicago
    • Physics, University of Chicago
    • Department of Physics and the James Franck Institute, University of Chicago
    • The James Franck Institute and Department of Physics, University of Chicago
    • The James Franck Institute and Department of Physics, The University of Chicago