Laboratoire de Physique et d’Étude des Matériaux

Population-Based Discrimination of Classical and Few-Photon Microwave Fields with a Flux-Tunable Transmon Qudit

Interactions between few-photon microwave fields and superconducting artificial atoms provide a method to study photon statistics and manipulate quantum states for photonic quantum information processing. Superconducting transmons couple to microwave fields through an anharmonic...

Frequency control of superconducting resonators using integrated interferometers

Predictable frequency trimming of superconducting resonators at liquid-helium temperatures requires a tuning element whose usable range remains well defined despite screening currents and hysteresis. Here, we realize flux-controlled λ/4 coplanar-waveguide resonators terminated by...

Phonon thermal Hall effect in quartz and its absence in silica

The observation of a misalignment between the applied heat flux and the measured temperature gradient in insulating solids induced by magnetic field has become a subject of experimental investigation, theoretical speculation, and unsettled controversy. To identify the origin of t...