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Flux-Pumped Symmetrically Threaded SQUID Josephson Parametric Amplifier

ORAL

Abstract

Josephson parametric amplifiers (JPA) have many useful applications in superconducting qubit measurements and quantum feedback. Ideally, JPA's are supposed to perform as perfect quantum amplifiers. However, in practice their performance is limited by higher-order corrections such as Kerr nonlinearity. In our work, we design a flux-pumped symmetrically threaded SQUID (STS) JPA which allows us to eliminate the Kerr nonlinearity from the Hamiltonian. We find that this setup can yield a gain closer to the ideal Degenerate Parametric Amplifier gain compared to SQUID based flux-pumped JPA. We also investigate quadrature mixing as well as noise properties of the Kerr free amplifier.

Presenters

  • KAGAN YANIK

    University of Rochester, University of Rochester, Chapman University

Authors

  • KAGAN YANIK

    University of Rochester, University of Rochester, Chapman University

  • Irwin Huang

    University of Rochester

  • Bibek Bhandari

    Chapman University

  • AHMED HAJR

    University of California, Berkeley

  • Bingcheng Qing

    University of California, Berkeley

  • Ke Wang

    University of California, Berkeley

  • Justin Dressel

    Chapman University

  • Irfan Siddiqi

    University of California, Berkeley

  • Andrew N Jordan

    Chapman University