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Chin. Phys. B, 2021, Vol. 30(12): 128502    DOI: 10.1088/1674-1056/ac0796
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Fabrication of Josephson parameter amplifier and its applicationin squeezing vacuum fluctuations

Pengtao Song(宋鹏涛)1,2, Xueyi Guo(郭学仪)1, Kai Xu(许凯)1, Xiaohui Song(宋小会)1, Zhan Wang(王战)1,2, Zhongcheng Xiang(相忠诚)1, Hekang Li(李贺康)1, Luhong Su(苏鹭红)1,2, Yirong Jin(金贻荣)1, and Dongning Zheng(郑东宁)1,2,3,†
1 Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China;
2 School of Physical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China;
3 Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory, Dongguan 523808, China
Abstract  Josephson parameter amplifier (JPA) is a microwave signal amplifier device with near-quantum-limit-noise performance. It has important applications in scientific research fields such as quantum computing and dark matter detection. This work reports the fabrication and characterization of broadband JPA devices and their applications in multi-qubit readout and squeezing of vacuum state. We use a process in which transmission lines and electrodes are made of niobium thin film and aluminum Josephson junctions are made by Dolan bridge technique. We believe this process is more convenient than the process we used previously. The whole production process adopts electron beam lithography technology to ensure high structural resolution. The test result shows that the gain value of the manufactured JPA can exceed 15 dB, and the amplification bandwidth is about 400 MHz. The noise temperature is about 400 mK at the working frequency of 6.2 GHz. The devices have been successfully used in experiments involving superconducting multi-qubit quantum processors. Furthermore, the device is applied to squeeze vacuum fluctuations and a squeezing level of 1.635 dB is achieved.
Keywords:  Josephson parameter amplifier      squeezed state      quantum computing  
Received:  15 April 2021      Revised:  29 May 2021      Accepted manuscript online:  03 June 2021
PACS:  85.25.Cp (Josephson devices)  
  85.25.Dq (Superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs))  
  03.67.Lx (Quantum computation architectures and implementations)  
  42.50.-p (Quantum optics)  
Fund: Project supported by the State Key Development Program for Basic Research of China (Grant No. 2017YFA0304300), the Key-Area Research and Development Program of Guangdong Province, China (Grant No. 2020B0303030001), and the Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. XDB28000000).
Corresponding Authors:  Dongning Zheng     E-mail:  dzheng@iphy.ac.cn

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Pengtao Song(宋鹏涛), Xueyi Guo(郭学仪), Kai Xu(许凯), Xiaohui Song(宋小会), Zhan Wang(王战), Zhongcheng Xiang(相忠诚), Hekang Li(李贺康), Luhong Su(苏鹭红), Yirong Jin(金贻荣), and Dongning Zheng(郑东宁) Fabrication of Josephson parameter amplifier and its applicationin squeezing vacuum fluctuations 2021 Chin. Phys. B 30 128502

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