Niobium-based lumped element SNAIL parametric amplifiers with improved power handling capacity

ORAL

Abstract

Parametric amplifiers based on Josephson junctions play a crucial role in superconducting quantum information processing. Resonator-based amplifiers, such as the Josephson parametric amplifier (JPA), the Josephson Parametric Converter (JPC) and the SNAIL parametric amplifier (SPA), are widely used due to their ease of operation and near quantum-limited noise performance. It has been shown that the compression power of these amplifiers, an increasingly desirable feature, increases quadratically with the resonator linewidth and inversely with the fourth-order non-linearity (Kerr) of their Josephson elements. In this talk, we present SPAs with lumped element resonators fabricated by niobium tri-layer technology. In these new devices, the Kerr nonlinearity is reduced while the junction participation ratio is increased, compared to the devices fabricated with single layer, aluminum technology. This resulted in a 10 dB improvement in compression power and more than twice larger bandwidth. We also discuss further improvement of these devices which, in the long run, would service most of the needs of the superconducting quantum circuits community.

*ARO, AFOSR, YINQE and NIST Initiative on Scalable Superconducting Quantum Computing.

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Presenters

  • Vidul Joshi

    • Applied Physics Department, Yale University
    • Yale University

Authors

  • Vidul Joshi

    • Applied Physics Department, Yale University
    • Yale University

  • Gangqiang Liu

    • Yale University
    • Applied Physics Department, Yale University

  • Maxime Malnou

    • NIST, Boulder
    • National Institute of Standards and Technology
    • National Institute of Standards and Technology Boulder

  • Volodymyr Sivak

    • Applied Physics Department, Yale University
    • Yale University
    • Department of Applied Physics and Physics, Yale University

  • Nicholas Frattini

    • Yale University

  • Gene C Hilton

    • NIST, Boulder
    • National Institute of Standards and Technology
    • NIST Boulder

  • Leila Vale

    • NIST, Boulder
    • National Institute of Standards and Technology
    • NIST Boulder

  • Joel N Ullom

    • National Institute of Standards and Technology
    • National Institute of Standards and Technology Boulder

  • Michel Devoret

    • Yale University
    • Applied Physics Department, Yale University
    • Yale
    • Department of Applied Physics and Physics, Yale University
    • Applied Physics, Yale University
    • Departments of Applied Physics and Physics, Yale University