Superconducting circuits present a promising platform with which to realize a quantum refrigerator. Motivated by this, we fabricate and perform spectroscopy of a gated Cooper-pair box, capacitively coupled to two superconducting coplanar-waveguide resonators with different frequencies. We experimentally demonstrate the strong coupling of a charge qubit to two superconducting resonators, with the ability to perform voltage driving of the qubit at gigahertz frequencies. We go on to discuss how the measured device could be modified to operate as a cyclic quantum refrigerator by terminating the resonators with normal-metal resistors acting as heat baths.
We have developed Josephson junctions between the d-wave superconductor YBa2Cu3O7−x
(YBCO) and the s-wave Mo0.6Re0.4 (MoRe) alloy superconductor (ds-JJs). Such ds Josephson junctions are of interest for superconducting electronics making use of incorporated π-phase shifts. The I(V)-characteristics of the ds-JJs demonstrate a twice larger critical current along the [100] axis of the YBCO film compared to similarly-oriented ds-JJs made with a Nb top electrode. The characteristic voltage I
c
R
n
of the YBCO–Au–MoRe ds-JJs is 750 μV at 4.2 K. The ds-JJs that are oriented along the [100] or [010] axes of the YBCO film exhibit a 200 times higher critical current than similar ds-JJs oriented along the [110] axis of the same YBCO film. A critical current density J
c
= 20 kA cm−2 at 4.2 K was achieved. Different layouts of π-loops based on the novel ds-JJs were arranged in various mutual coupling configurations. Spontaneous persistent currents in the π-loops were investigated using scanning SQUID microscopy. Magnetic states of the π-loops were manipulated by currents in integrated bias lines. Higher flux states up to ±2.5Φ0 were induced and stabilized in the π-loops. Crossover temperatures between thermally activated and quantum tunneling switching processes in the ds-JJs were estimated. The demonstrated ability to stabilise and manipulate states of π-loops paves the way towards new computing concepts such as quantum annealing computing.
We study plasmon–exciton interaction in ZnO-based thin film on bulk Pt by using high resolution spectroscopic ellipsometry. ZnO films on quartz are used as reference. This study shows the strong electronic interactions between ZnO film and Pt by considering the significant suppression of exciton in ZnO film, in comparison to ZnO film on quartz. We found that plasmon in Pt are responsible to provide transferred electron for electronic blocking of exciton in ZnO film induce by spontaneous recombination from Pt. In the case of Cu doped ZnO film, we confirm screening effects on exciton and a localized interband transition for both systems (ZnO film on Pt and ZnO film on quartz). In Cu-doped ZnO film, electronic blocking of exciton by Pt plasmon is more pronounce rather than screening effect by interband transition. Our results show the importance of plasmon from substrate and doping to modify the optical properties of wide bandgap semiconductor.
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