FOPRA Experiment 104: The Josephson Parametric Amplifier (JPA) (QST-EX)
Course 0000100104 in WS 2023/4
General Data
| Course Type | practical training |
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| Semester Weekly Hours | 1 SWS |
| Organisational Unit | Technical Physics |
| Lecturers |
Kedar Honasoge Wun Kwan Yam Responsible/Coordination: Rudolf Gross |
| Dates |
Further Information
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| additional remarks | In superconducting quantum circuits, such as quantum bits, information is processed and transferred in the form of microwave quantum signals. Moreover, at the end of quantum information protocols, these signals have to be recorded by room temperature electronic devices. Since microwave quantum signals typically consist of very few photons, they must be amplified in order to achieve reasonable signal-to-noise ratios. Therefore, low-noise amplification of quantum signals is crucial. Modern low-noise microwave amplifiers are built upon superconducting Josephson parametric devices, such as a flux-driven Josephson Parametric Amplifier (JPA), which allows to reach the standard quantum limit of amplification and even go beyond it. The current JPA is formed by a superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) combined with a superconducting coplanar waveguide resonator. The combined system acts as a tunable nonlinear microwave resonator, whose frequency can be varied in-situ via an external magnetic field. A mechanical analogue would be a pendulum of variable length, allowing one to tune its eigenfrequency. Tunability of the nonlinear microwave resonator can be exploited to parametrically pump the JPA via application of a strong microwave signal at twice the resonant frequency. This, in turn, can result in a strong parametric amplification of weak quantum signals incident at the JPA. The same parametric amplification mechanism can be exploited further for generation of genuine quantum signals in the form of squeezed vacuum states. |
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| Links |
Course documents TUMonline entry TUMonline registration for 01: 16.10.2023 - 21.10.2023, 02: 23.10.2023 - 28.10.2023 TUMonline registration for 03: 30.10.2023 - 04.11.2023, 04: 06.11.2023 - 11.11.2023 TUMonline registration for 05: 13.11.2023 - 18.11.2023, 06: 20.11.2023 - 25.11.2023 TUMonline registration for 22: 11.03.2024 - 16.03.2024, 23: 18.03.2024 - 23.03.2024, 24: 25.03.2024 - 30.03.2024 (Woche mit Karfreitag) TUMonline registration for 07: 27.11.2023 - 02.12.2023, 08: 04.12.2023 - 09.12.2023 TUMonline registration for 20: 26.02.2024 - 02.03.2024, 21: 04.03.2024 - 09.03.2024 TUMonline registration for 09: 11.12.2023 - 16.12.2023, 10: 18.12.2023 - 23.12.2023 TUMonline registration for 18: 12.02.2024 - 17.02.2024, 19: 19.02.2024 - 24.02.2024 TUMonline registration for 13: 08.01.2024 - 13.01.2024, 14: 15.01.2024 - 20.01.2024 TUMonline registration for 15: 22.01.2024 - 27.01.2024, 16: 29.01.2024 - 03.02.2024, 17: 05.02.2024 - 10.02.2024 |
Equivalent Courses (e. g. in other semesters)
| Semester | Title | Lecturers | Dates |
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| SS 2024 | FOPRA Experiment 104: The Josephson Parametric Amplifier (JPA) (QST-EX) |
Honasoge, K.
Yam, W.
Responsible/Coordination: Gross, R. |
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| SS 2023 | FOPRA Experiment 104: The Josephson Parametric Amplifier (JPA) (QST-EX) |
Honasoge, K.
Yam, W.
Responsible/Coordination: Gross, R. |
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| WS 2022/3 | FOPRA Experiment 104: The Josephson Parametric Amplifier (JPA) (QST-EX) |
Honasoge, K.
Kronowetter, F.
Responsible/Coordination: Gross, R. |
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| SS 2022 | FOPRA Experiment 104: The Josephson Parametric Amplifier (JPA) (QST-EX) |
Fedorov, K.
Honasoge, K.
Kronowetter, F.
Responsible/Coordination: Gross, R. |
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| WS 2021/2 | FOPRA Experiment 104: The Josephson Parametric Amplifier (JPA) (QST-EX) |
Fedorov, K.
Responsible/Coordination: Gross, R. |