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A Traveling Wave Parametric Amplifier Isolator

A. Ranadive, B. Fazliji, G. Le Gal, G. Cappelli, G. Butseraen, E. Bonet, E. Eyraud, S. Böhling, L. Planat, A. Metelmann, and N. Roch,

arXiv:2406.19752 , Arxiv

Investigating pump harmonics generation in a SNAIL-based Traveling Wave Parametric Amplifier

A. Yu. Levochkina, H. G. Ahmad, P. Mastrovito, I. Chatterjee, G. Serpico, L. Di Palma, R. Ferroiuolo, R. Satariano, P. Darvehi, A. Ranadive, G. Cappelli, G. Le Gal, L. Planat, D. Montemurro, D. Massarotti, F. Tafuri, N. Roch, G. P. Pepe, and M. Esposito,

arXiv:2405.20096 , Arxiv

Direct detection of down-converted photons spontaneously produced at a single Josephson junction

D. Fraudet, I. Snyman, D. M. Basko, S. Léger, T. Sépulcre, A. Ranadive, G. Le Gal, A. Torras-Coloma, S. Florens, and N. Roch,

arXiv:2405.00411, Arxiv

First-order quantum breakdown of superconductivity in amorphous superconductors

T. Charpentier, D. Perconte, S. Léger, K. R. Amin, F. Blondelle, F. Gay, O. Buisson, L. Ioffe, A. Khvalyuk, I. Poboiko, M. Feigel'man, N. Roch, and B. Sacépé,

arXiv:2404.09855, Arxiv

Magnetic-field dependence of a Josephson traveling-wave parametric amplifier and integration into a high-field setup

L. M. Janssen, G. Butseraen, J. Krause, A. Coissard, L. Planat, N. Roch, G. Catelani, Yoichi Ando, and C. Dickel,

arXiv:2402.19398, Arxiv

Using bi-fluxon tunneling to protect the Fluxonium qubit

W. Ardati, S. Léger, S. Kumar, V. N. Suresh, D. Nicolas, C. Mori, F. D'Esposito, T. Vakhtel, O. Buisson, Q. Ficheux, and N. Roch,

arXiv:2402.04495, Arxiv

Broadband parametric amplification for multiplexed SiMOS quantum dot signals

V. Elhomsy, L. Planat, D. J. Niegemann, B. Cardoso-Paz, A. Badreldin, B. Klemt, V. Thiney, R. Lethiecq, E. Eyraud, M. C. Dartiailh, B. Bertrand, H. Niebojewski, C. Bäuerle, M. Vinet, T. Meunier, N. Roch, and M. Urdampilleta,

arXiv:2307.14717, Arxiv

2024

Near-power-law temperature dependence of the superfluid stiffness in strongly disordered superconductors

A. V. Khvalyuk, T. Charpentier, N. Roch, B. Sacépé, and M. V. Feigel'man,

Physical Review B 109, 144501 (2024), Arxiv| Phys. Rev. B

Entanglement assisted probe of the non-Markovian to Markovian transition in open quantum system dynamics

C. Gaikwad, D. Kowsari, C. Brame, X. Song, H. Zhang, M. Esposito, A. Ranadive, G. Cappelli, N. Roch, E. M. Levenson-Falk, and K. W. Murch,

Physical Review Letters 132, 200401 (2024), Arxiv| Phys. Rev. Lett.

2023

Transmon-qubit readout using an in situ bifurcation amplification in the mesoscopic regime

R. Dassonneville, T. Ramos, V. Milchakov, L. Planat, F. Foroughi, C. Naud, W. Hasch-Guichard, J. J. Garcia-Ripoll, N. Roch, and O. Buisson,

Physical Review Applied 20, 044050 (2023), Arxiv| Phys. Rev. Applied

Search for galactic axions with a traveling wave parametric amplifier

R. Di Vora, A. Lombardi, A. Ortolan, R. Pengo, G. Ruoso, C. Braggio, G. Carugno, L. Taffarello, G. Cappelli, N. Crescini, M. Esposito, L. Planat, A. Ranadive, N. Roch, D. Alesini, D. Babusci, A. D'Elia, D. Di Gioacchino, C. Gatti, C. Ligi, G. Maccarrone, A. Rettaroli, S. Tocci, D. D'Agostino, U. Gambardella, G. Iannone, and P. Falferi,

Physical Review D 108, 062005 (2023), Arxiv| Phys. Rev. D

Revealing the finite-frequency response of a bosonic quantum impurity

S. Léger, T. Sépulcre, D. Fraudet, O. Buisson, C. Naud, W. Hasch-Guichard, S. Florens, I. Snyman, D. M. Basko, and N. Roch,

SciPost Physics 14, 130 (2023), Arxiv| SciPost Phys.

Evidence of dual Shapiro steps in a Josephson junctions array

N. Crescini, S. Cailleaux, W. Guichard, C. Naud, O. Buisson, K. Murch, and N. Roch,

Nature Physics 19, 851–856 (2023), Arxiv| Nat. Phys.

See also News and Views from Gianluca Rastelli and Ioan Pop: Steps towards current metrology.

Thermodynamics of a single mesoscopic phononic mode

I. Golokolenov, A. Ranadive, L. Planat, M. Esposito, N. Roch, X. Zhou, A. Fefferman, and E. Collin,

Physical Review Research 5, 013046 (2023), Arxiv| Phys. Rev. Research

2022

A haloscope amplification chain based on a traveling wave parametric amplifier

C. Braggio, G. Cappelli, G. Carugno, N. Crescini, R. Di Vora, M. Esposito, A. Ortolan, L. Planat, A. Ranadive, N. Roch, and G. Ruoso,

Review of Scientific Instruments 93, 094701 (2022), Arxiv | Rev. Sci. Ins.

A gate-tunable graphene Josephson parametric amplifier

G. Butseraen, A. Ranadive, N. Aparicio, K. R. Amin, A. Juyal, M. Esposito, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, N. Roch, F. Lefloch, and J. Renard,

Nature Nanotechnology 17, 1153–1158 (2022), Arxiv | Nat. Nanotechnol.

See also News and Views from Kin Chung Fong: Graphene amplifier reaches the quantum limit.

Observation of two-mode squeezing in a traveling wave parametric amplifier

M. Esposito, A. Ranadive, L. Planat, S. Leger, D. Fraudet, V. Jouanny, O. Buisson, W. Guichard, C. Naud, J. Aumentado, F. Lecocq, and N. Roch,

Physical Review Letters 128, 153603 (2022), Arxiv | Phys. Rev. Lett.

Loss mechanisms in TiN high impedance superconducting microwave circuits

K. R. Amin, C. Ladner, G. Jourdan, S. Hentz, N. Roch, and J. Renard,

Applied Physics Letters 120, 164001 (2022), Arxiv | Appl. Phys. Lett.

Kerr reversal in Josephson meta-material and traveling wave parametric amplification

A. Ranadive, M. Esposito, L. Planat, E. Bonet, C. Naud, O. Buisson, W. Guichard, and N. Roch,

Nature Communications 13, 1737 (2022), Arxiv | Nat. Commun.

2021

The Grenoble Axion Haloscope platform (GrAHal): development plan and first results

T. Grenet, R. Ballou, Q. Basto, K. Martineau, P. Perrier, P. Pugnat, J. Quevillon, N. Roch, and C. Smith,

arXiv:2110.14406, Arxiv

Spin-Boson Quantum Phase Transition in Multilevel Superconducting Qubits

K. Kaur, T. Sépulcre, N. Roch, I. Snyman, S. Florens, and S. Bera,

Physical Review Letters 127, 237702 (2021), Arxiv | Phys. Rev. Lett.

Simulating MADMAX in 3D: requirements for dielectric axion haloscopes

The MADMAX collaboration

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 10, 034 (2021), Arxiv | JCAP

Perspective on traveling wave microwave parametric amplifiers

M. Esposito, A. Ranadive, L. Planat, and N. Roch,

Applied Physics Letters 119, 120501 (2021), Arxiv | Appl. Phys. Lett.

Al–Ge–Al Nanowire Heterostructure: From Single-Hole Quantum Dot to Josephson Effect

J. Delaforce, M. Sistani, R. Kramer, M. A. Luong, N. Roch, W. M. Weber, M. Den Hertog, E. Robin, C. Naud, A. Lugstein, and B. Buisson,

Advanced Materials, 202101989 (2021), Adv. Mater.

Minimizing the discrimination time for quantum states of an artificial atom

I. Takmakov, P. Winkel, F. Foroughi, L. Planat, D. Gusenkova, M. Spiecker, D. Rieger, L. Grünhaupt, A. V. Ustinov, W. Wernsdorfer, I. M. Pop, and N. Roch,

Physical Review Applied 15, 064029 (2021), Arxiv | Phys. Rev. Applied

Quantum non-demolition dispersive readout of a superconducting artificial atom using large photon numbers

D. Gusenkova, M. Spiecker, R. Gebauer, M. Willsch, F. Valenti, N. Karcher, L. Grünhaupt, I. Takmakov, P. Winkel, D. Rieger, A. V. Ustinov, N. Roch, W. Wernsdorfer, K. Michielsen, O. Sander, and I. M. Pop,

Physical Review Applied 15, 064030 (2021), Arxiv | Phys. Rev. Applied

2020

Coulomb blockade in monolithic and monocrystalline Al-Ge-Al nanowire heterostructures

M. Sistani, J. Delaforce, K. Bharadwaj, M. A. Luong, J. Nacenta, N. Roch, M. Den Hertog, R. Kramer, B. Buisson, A. Lugstein, and C. Naud,

Applied Physics Letters 116, 013105 (2020), Appl. Phys. Lett.

State preparation of a fluxonium qubit with feedback from a custom FPGA-based platform

R. Gebauer, N. Karcher, D. Gusenkova, M. Spiecker, L. Grünhaupt, I. Takmakov, P. Winkel, L. Planat, N. Roch, W. Wernsdorfer, A. V. Ustinov, M. Weber, M. Weides, I. M. Pop, and O. Sander

AIP Conference Proceedings 2241, 020015 (2020), Arxiv | AIP Conf. Proc.

A photonic crystal Josephson traveling wave parametric amplifier

L. Planat, A. Ranadive, R. Dassonneville, J. Puertas Martínez, S. Leger, C. Naud, O. Buisson, W. Hasch-Guichard, D. M. Basko, and N. Roch,

Physical Review X 10, 021021 (2020), Arxiv | Phys. Rev. X

See also Physics Synopis: A Simple Solution for Microwave Amplification and CNRS la lettre innovation: Un amplificateur quantique pour la lecture des bits quantiques.

Fast high fidelity quantum non-demolition qubit readout via a non-perturbative cross-Kerr coupling

R. Dassonneville, T. Ramos, V. Milchakov, L. Planat, É. Dumur, F. Foroughi, J. Puertas, S. Leger, K. Bharadwaj, J. Delaforce, C. Naud, W. Hasch-Guichard, J. J. García-Ripoll, N. Roch, and O. Buisson,

Physical Review X 10, 011045 (2020), Arxiv | Phys. Rev. X

Non-degenerate parametric amplifiers based on dispersion engineered Josephson junction arrays

P. Winkel, I. Takmakov, D. Rieger, L. Planat, W. Hasch-Guichard, L. Grünhaupt, N. Maleeva, F. Foroughi, F. Henriques, K. Borisov, J. Ferrero, A. V. Ustinov, W. Wernsdorfer, N. Roch, and I. M. Pop,

Physical Review Applied 13, 024015 (2020), Arxiv | Phys. Rev. Applied

2019

Highly Transparent Contacts to the 1D Hole Gas in Ultrascaled Ge/Si Core/Shell Nanowires

M. Sistani, J. Delaforce, R. B. G. Kramer, N. Roch, M. A. Luong, M. I. den Hertog, E. Robin, J. Smoliner, J. Yao, C. M. Lieber, C. Naud, A. Lugstein, and O. Buisson,

ACS Nano 13, 12, 14145-14151 (2019), ACS Nano

Fabrication and characterization of aluminum SQUID transmission lines

L. Planat, E. Al-Tavil, J. Puertas Martínez, R. Dassonneville, F. Foroughi, S. Leger, K. Bharadwaj, J. Delaforce, V. Milchakov, C. Naud, O. Buisson, W. Hasch-Guichard, and N. Roch,

Physical Review Applied 12, 064017 (2019), Arxiv | Phys. Rev. Applied

Observation of quantum many-body effects due to zero point fluctuations in superconducting circuits

S. Leger, J. Puertas Martínez, K. Bharadwaj, R. Dassonneville, J. Delaforce, F. Foroughi, V. Milchakov, L. Planat, O. Buisson, C. Naud, W. Hasch-Guichard, S. Florens, I. Snyman, and N. Roch,

Nature Communications 10, 5259 (2019), Arxiv | Nat. Commun.

Injection locking and parametric locking in a superconducting circuit

D. Marković, J.-D. Pillet, E. Flurin, N. Roch, B. Huard,

Physical Review Applied 12, 024034 (2019), Arxiv | Phys. Rev. Applied

Understanding the saturation power of Josephson Parametric Amplifiers made from SQUIDs arrays

L. Planat, R. Dassonneville, J. Puertas Martínez, F. Foroughi, O. Buisson, W. Hasch-Guichard, C. Naud, R. Vijay, K. Murch, and N. Roch,

Physical Review Applied 11, 034014 (2019), Arxiv | Phys. Rev. Applied

A tunable Josephson platform to explore many-body quantum optics in circuit-QED

J. Puertas Martinez, S. Leger, N. Gheereart, R. Dassonneville, L. Planat, F. Foroughi, Y. Krupko, O. Buisson, C. Naud, W. Guichard, S. Florens, I. Snyman, N. Roch,

npj Quantum Information 5, 19 (2019), Arxiv | npj Quantum Information

See also editorial from Audrey Cottet: Superconducting quantum bits with artificial damping tackle the many body problem.

2018

Particle production in a waveguide ultra-strongly coupled to a qubit

N. Gheeraert, X. H. H. Zhang, S. Bera, N. Roch, H. U. Baranger and S. Florens,

Physical Review A 98, 043816 (2018), Arxiv | Phys. Rev. A

Kerr nonlinearity in a superconducting Josephson metamaterial

Y. Krupko, V. D. Nguyen, T. Weissl, E. Dumur, J. Puertas Martinez, R. Dassonneville, C. Naud, F. W. J. Hekking, D. M. Basko, O. Buisson, N. Roch, W. Hasch-Guichard,

Physical Review B 98, 094516 (2018), Arxiv | Phys. Rev. B

2016

Quantum trajectories and their statistics for remotely entangled quantum bits

A. Chantasri, M. E. Kimchi-Schwartz, N. Roch, I. Siddiqi, A. N. Jordan,

Physical Review X 6, 041052 (2016) Arxiv | Phys. Rev. X

Quantum trajectories of superconducting qubits

S. J. Weber, K. W. Murch, M. E. Schwartz, N. Roch and I. Siddiqi,

Comptes Rendus Physique 17 (7), 766-777 (2016), Arxiv| C.R. Phys.

Unexpectedly allowed transition in two inductively coupled transmons

E. Dumur, B. Küng, A. K. Feofanov, T. Weissl, N. Roch, C. Naud, W. Guichard, and O. Buisson,

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity 26 (3), 1-4 (2016), Arxiv| IEEE Trans. App. Sup.

2015

Superconducting Quantum Node for Entanglement and Storage of Microwave Radiation

E. Flurin, N. Roch, J. D. Pillet, F. Mallet, and B. Huard,

Physical Review Letters 114, 090503 (2015), Arxiv | Phys. Rev. Lett.

A V-shape superconducting artificial atom based on two inductively coupled transmons

E. Dumur, B. Küng, A. K. Feofanov, T. Weissl, N. Roch, C. Naud, W. Guichard, and O. Buisson,

Physical Review B 92, 020515(R) (2015), Arxiv | Phys. Rev. B

2014

Observation of Measurement-Induced Entanglement and Quantum Trajectories of Remote Superconducting Qubits

N. Roch, M. E. Schwartz, F. Motzoi, C. Macklin, R. Vijay, A. W. Eddins, A. N. Korotkov, K. B. Whaley, M. Sarovar, and I. Siddiqi,

Physical Review Letters 112, 170501 (2014), Arxiv | Phys. Rev. Lett.

See also the Viewpoint in Physics: Remote Controlled Entanglement

Stabilizing Spin Coherence Through Environmental Entanglement in Strongly Dissipative Quantum Systems

S. Bera, S. Florens, H. U. Baranger, N. Roch, A. Nazir, and A. W. Chin,

Physical Review B 89, 121108(R) (2014), Arxiv | Phys. Rev. B

2013

Stabilizing a superconducting qubit trajectory with projective quantum feedback

P. Campagne-Ibarcq, E. Flurin, N. Roch, D. Darson, P. Morfin, M. Mirrahimi, M. H. Devoret, and B. Huard,

Physical Review X 3, 021008 (2013), Arxiv | Phys. Rev. X

2012

Generating Entangled Microwave Radiation Over Two Transmission Lines

E. Flurin, N. Roch, F. Mallet, M. Devoret, and B. Huard,

Physical Review Letters 109, 183901, (2012), Arxiv | Phys. Rev. Lett.

See also the Viewpoint in Physics: Entangled Microwaves Split Up

Widely tunable, nondegenerate three-wave mixing microwave device operating near the quantum limit

N. Roch, E. Flurin, F. Nguyen, P. Morfin, P. Campagne-Ibarcq, M. Devoret, and B. Huard

Physical Review Letters 108, 147701, (2012), Arxiv | Phys. Rev. Lett.

2011

Coupling a quantum dot, fermionic leads, and a microwave cavity on a chip

M. Delbecq, V. Schmitt, F. Parmentier, N. Roch, J. Viennot, G. Feve, B. Huard, C. Mora, A. Cottet, and T. Kontos

Physical Review Letters 107, 256804, (2011), Arxiv | Phys. Rev. Lett.

Universal transport signatures in two-electron molecular quantum dots: gate-tunable hund's rule, underscreened kondo effect and quantum phase transitions

S. Florens, A. Freyn, N. Roch, W. Wernsdorfer, F. Balestro, P. Roura-Bas, and A. A. Aligia

Journal of Physics-Condensed Matter 23 (24), 243202, (2011), Arxiv | Journal of Physics-Condensed Matter

Cotunneling through a magnetic single-molecule transistor based on N@C60

N. Roch, R. Vincent, F. Elste, W. Harneit, W. Wernsdorfer, C. Timm, and F. Balestro

Physical Review B 83, 081407(R), (2011), Arxiv | Phys. Rev. B

2009

Superconductivity in a single-C60 transistor

C. B. Winkelmann, N. Roch, W. Wernsdorfer, V. Bouchiat, and F. Balestro

Nature Physics 5 (12), 876-879, (2009), Arxiv | Nat. Phys.

Observation of the underscreened Kondo effect in a molecular transistor

N. Roch, S. Florens, T. A. Costi, W. Wernsdorfer, and F. Balestro

Physical Review Letters 103, 197202, (2009), Arxiv | Journal of Physics-Condensed Matter

2008

Quantum phase transition in a single-molecule quantum dot

N. Roch, S. Florens, V. Bouchiat, W. Wernsdorfer, and F. Balestro

Nature 453 (7195), 633-U3, (2008), Arxiv | Nature

2005

Patterning frictional differentiation to a polymer surface by atomic force microscopy

G. S. Watson, C. L. Brown, S. Myhra, N. Roch, S. Hu and J. A. Watson

Proc. SPIE 6037 Device and Process Technologies for Microelectronics, MEMS, and Photonics IV, 60371B, (2005), SPIE

News

October 2023

Bravo Dr. Charpentier! Check the thesis section if you want to learn (almost) everything about disordered superconductors and cQED.

March 2023

Our observation of Dual Shapiro steps published in Nature Physics. Congrats Nicolo and Sam for these great results!

November 2022

We have a new doctor! Congratulations Arpit!

Octobre 2022

Guilliam's paper in Nature Nanotechnology: welcome to the graphene JPA.

June 2021

Sebastien's PhD manuscript and oral presentation were greatly appreciated by the committee. Congrats Dr. Leger!

December 2020

My ERC project SuperProtected is accepted for funding.

June 2020

Congratulations to Luca for his PhD defense! If you want to learn everything about TWPA, have a look at his thesis.

April 2020

Both Rémy's and Luca's papers were published in PRX!

November 2019

Seb's paper in Nature Communications! Check the publications section.

October 2019

Thibault Charpentier starts his PhD. He aims at understanding the physics of the Superconductor Insulator Transition combining a unique material (Indium Oxyde) and the cQED toolbox. Welcome Thibault!

August 2019

We receive our new dilution fridge. It features a very large experimental space at base temperature to allow experiments involving many qubits and quantum limited amplifiers. Have a look at the photo gallery

March 2019

Welcome to Arpit Ranadive, who just joined the team as a Phd candidate. Arpit will developp the next generation TWPA.

January 2019

We now have a new PhD graduate: congrats Remy for this very nice defense!

October 2018

Nicolas Gheeraert explained us all about "Quantum non-linearities of a qubit ultra-strongly coupled to a waveguide", his PhD work. Great defense Nicolas!

September 2018

Check our new paper explaining saturation effects in Josephson Parametric Amplifiers.

July 2018

Our paper presenting a detailed analysis of the Kerr non-linearity in a Josephson junctions chain is now available in the Publications section.

June 2018

Javier defended his Phd thesis. Congratulations doctor Puertas Martinez!

February 2018

Check the Publications section. Two new preprints are available.

September 2017

Welcome to Sebastien Leger! He will aim at observing many-body physics effects in superconducting circuits during his PhD.

October 2016

Luca Planat starts his PhD on Josephson Parametric Amplifiers (JPA), welcome Luca!

September 2016

Nicolas Gheeraert is awarded a Raman-Charpak Fellowship to join QuMac, the lab of Vijay, for an internship. Congratulations Nicolas!

September 2016

Pictures of the new lab are available, check the Photo Gallery section.

September 2016

Our review paper on quantum trajectories has just been published.

April 2016

Our paper on "Unexpectedly allowed transitions" in transmon qubits is now out. Have a look at the Publications section.

September 2015

Welcome to Remy Dassonneville who starts his PhD!

June 2015

Wanna know what is a quantum trajectory? Have a look at our new paper on the Arxiv.

April 2015

We are happy to welcome our new Phd student: Javier Puertas Martinez.

March 2015

Check our new paper about a Superconducting Quantum Node for Entanglement and Storage of Microwave Radiation!

January 2015

Our recent work on A V-shape superconducting artificial atom based on two inductively coupled transmons is now on the Arxiv.

March 2014

Our paper on measurement induced entanglement between remote superconducting quantum bits has been accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters and featured as a Viewpoint in Physics!

October 2013

After my post-doc in the quantum nanoelectronics lab at UC Berkeley, I am joining the Neel Institue!