11 results about "Superconducting loop" patented technology

A persistent current switch is disclosed for controlling, e.g. initiating, a persistent current in a superconductor loop. The persistent current switch comprises a piece of superconductor material that is part of the superconductor loop. Further, the persistent current switch comprises an illumination system that is configured to direct light onto the piece of superconductor material for influencing an electrical resistance of the piece of superconductor material. The illumination system is configured such that the light impinging on the piece of superconductor material substantially does not heat the piece of superconductor material.

There is provided a system (1) for hosting a bosonic qubit, comprising a non-linear superconducting circuit (3) and a command circuit (5). The non-linear superconducting circuit (3) comprises: at least one resonant portion (9), and an asymmetrically threaded superconducting quantum interference device (ATS) (7) coupled to said at least one resonant portion (9), wherein the ATS (7) comprises a pair of Josephson junctions and an inductive element, wherein the pair of Josephson junctions and the inductor are galvanically connected in parallel such that each of the Josephson junctions respectively forms first and second superconducting loops with the inductive element, wherein the non-linear superconducting circuit has a first physical oscillatory mode for hosting the bosonic qubit, the first physical oscillatory mode having a first resonant frequency. The command circuit (5) comprises a first electromagnetic source (27) configured to thread the first superconducting loop with a first magnetic flux Φ 1 and the second superconducting loop with a second magnetic flux Φ 2 such that the ATS (7) is threaded with a differential flux (formula I) in units of the superconducting flux quantum. The command circuit (5) is further configured to modulate the differential flux (formula II) at a modulation frequency equal to the first resonant frequency ωa.

A device comprises a superconducting switch which comprises an impedance tunable element coupled to and between a transmission line and ground. The transmission line couples a first port and a second port having matched impedances. The impedance tunable element comprises a superconducting loop comprising at least one Josephson junction, and is configured to be flux tuned into a first or second impedance state. In the first impedance state, the impedance tunable element shunts the transmission line to ground with an impedance that disrupts the impedance match between the first and second ports to suppress signal transmission between the first and second ports over the transmission line. In the second impedance state, the impedance tunable element shunts the transmission line to ground with an impedance that maintains the impedance match between the first and second ports to allow signal transmission between the first and second ports over the transmission line.

This solves the connectivity problem between qubits. [Solution] The superconducting integrated circuit includes a first superconducting device 102 having a first superconducting loop 108 with a first superconducting trace in a first layer of the superconducting integrated circuit, and a second superconducting device 104 having a second superconducting loop 112 with a second superconducting trace in a second layer. The first superconducting loop intersects with the second superconducting loop in an intersection region 120. At least a portion of each of the first and second superconducting traces inside the intersection region follows a detour path that is narrower than at least a portion of each of the traces outside the intersection region and inductively approaches at least a portion of the other path.

Provided are a structure for reducing a SQUID superconducting loop area, and a preparation method therefor, wherein a stacked structure is formed on a silicon substrate, and precision etching is performed on the stacked structure, so that a 3D nano-bridge junction is formed on a sloped surface of the stacked structure and stretches across an insulating layer, such that batch preparation of the structure for reducing a SQUID superconducting loop area can be implemented, which facilitates large-scale application of SQUID probes. The plane of the 3D nano-bridge junction is perpendicular to the plane on which a SQUID superconducting loop is located, such that the width of the 3D nano-bridge junction no longer affects a SQUID effective loop area, so that the thickness of the 3D nano-bridge junction can be individually regulated in order to improve SQUID performance, which significantly weakens the inhibition effect of a magnetic field on the superconducting characteristics of the 3D nano-bridge junction. In addition, the SQUID superconducting loop having a minimum line width of 10nm can be prepared in combination with an electron beam lithography technique having higher precision, significantly reducing the SQUID superconducting loop area, improving spin sensitivity, and thereby achieving higher spatial resolution during scanning magnetic imaging.

The present invention is a system that produces zero noise magnetic field, which consists of: a coil made of superconducting wire, a precision current source, a Normally Closed Reed (NC) Relay, a Normally Opened (NO) Reed Relay, a cooling mechanism to maintain the superconductor temperature below the critical temperature. The precision current source generates the necessary initial current to act as source for the superconducting coil. The NO reed relay connects the precision current source to the superconductive coil. When this current start to flow, the NC Relay is used to close a superconductive path of the superconductive coil on to itself. Once the system becomes stabilized, the NO reed relay is made open, cutting off the precision source while the Normally Closed relay is closed, thereby a steady value current keeps flowing inside the superconducting coil with zero resistance and zero magnetic noise.

A superconducting circuit includes four superconducting qubits communicatively coupled by a 4-qubit even-parity stabilizer. The 4 -qubit even-parity stabilizer includes a superconducting stabilizer loop, and four inductances, each inductance inductively communicatively coupled to an inductance of a respective one of the four superconducting qubits. The 4-qubit even-parity stabilizer also includes a parity-enforcing super-conducting qubit communicatively coupled to the superconducting loop. A quantum processor comprises four Josephson parametric amplifiers communicatively coupled by a 4-qubit even-parity stabilizer. The Josephson parametric amplifiers comprise pairs of superconducting microwave resonators communicatively coupled by a compound-compound Josephson junction. The 4-qubit even-parity stabilizer includes a superconducting loop, four inductances inductively communicatively coupled to an inductance of a respective one of the four Josephson parametric amplifier, and a parity-enforcing Josephson parametric amplifier communicatively coupled to the superconducting loop.

Josephson junction based data latch devices and methods for their use are described herein. An example Josephson junction based data latch device includes a plurality of superconducting loops. Each superconducting loop includes at least one Josephson junction. Each loop of the plurality of superconducting loops is electrically coupled and is configured to shift or annihilate magnetic flux quanta in one or more of the superconducting loops in response to a combination of signals and single flux quantum (SFQ) pulses. A readout line is coupled to the plurality of superconducting loops. A plurality of data and control lines are coupled to the plurality of superconducting loops. Each line is configured to provide at least one of a plurality of signals to at least a portion of the plurality of superconducting loops. The plurality of signals includes a data signal, an enable control signal, and a read control signal.

A device comprises a first superconducting quantum bit, a second superconducting quantum bit, and a coupler circuit. The first superconducting quantum bit comprises a superconducting tunnel junction and a shunt inductor which form a first superconducting loop. The second superconducting quantum bit comprises a superconducting tunnel junction and a shunt inductor which form a second superconducting loop. The coupler circuit is coupled between the first and second superconducting quantum bits. The coupler circuit is configured to implement an entanglement gate operation between the first and second superconducting quantum bits through exchange interactions between the coupler circuit and the first superconducting quantum bit and the second superconducting quantum bit, when the coupler circuit is driven by a control signal. The coupler circuit is configured to suppress interaction between the first superconducting quantum bit and the second superconducting quantum bit, when the coupler circuit is not driven by the control signal.

The present invention relates to a quantum magnetic field detecting device comprising a two-dimensional array of superconducting loops, acting as a high- efficiency transformer-free Magnetically Small Antenna (MSA), comprising Superconducting Quantum Interference Device (SQUID) loops with Josephson junctions and bare loops without Josephson junctions.

A Josephson junction based crossbar device (200) includes a plurality of superconducting loops (202a-202d). Each superconducting loop includes at least one Josephson junction (204). Each loop of the plurality of superconducting loops are electrically coupled and is configured to shift or annihilate magnetic flux quanta in one or more of the superconducting loops in response to a combination of signals and single flux quantum, SFQ, pulses. A readout line (230) is additionally coupled to the plurality of superconducting loops. A plurality of data and control lines (212, 214, 216) are coupled to the plurality of superconducting loops. Each line of the plurality of data and control lines is configured to provide at least one of a plurality of signals to at least a portion of the plurality of superconducting loops. The plurality of signals includes a data signal (212), a mirrored enable control signal (214), and a strobe control signal (216).