DOI: 10.1063/1.4807015. Reaching 10 ms single photon lifetimes for superconducting aluminum cavities

Reaching 10 ms single photon lifetimes for superconducting aluminum cavities

10.1063/1.4807015

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Abstract

Three-dimensional microwave cavities have recently been combined with superconducting qubits in the circuit quantum electrodynamics architecture. These cavities should have less sensitivity to dielectric and conductor losses at surfaces and interfaces, which currently limit the performance of planar resonators. We expect that significantly (&gt;103) higher quality factors and longer lifetimes should be achievable for 3D structures. Motivated by this principle, we have reached internal quality factors greater than 0.5 × 109 and intrinsic lifetimes of 0.01 s for multiple aluminum superconducting cavity resonators at single photon energies and millikelvin temperatures. These improvements could enable long lived quantum memories with submicrosecond access times when strongly coupled to superconducting qubits.

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Reagor, M., Paik, H., Catelani, G., Sun, L., Axline, C., Holland, E., Pop, I. M., Masluk, N. A., Brecht, T., Frunzio, L., Devoret, M. H., Glazman, L., & Schoelkopf, R. J. (2013). Reaching 10âms single photon lifetimes for superconducting aluminum cavities. Applied Physics Letters, 102(19).

Authors 13

Matthew Reagor (first)
Hanhee Paik (additional)
Gianluigi Catelani (additional)
Luyan Sun (additional)
Christopher Axline (additional)
Eric Holland (additional)
Ioan M. Pop (additional)
Nicholas A. Masluk (additional)
Teresa Brecht (additional)
Luigi Frunzio (additional)
Michel H. Devoret (additional)
Leonid Glazman (additional)
Robert J. Schoelkopf (additional)

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Type	When
Created	12 years, 3 months ago (May 16, 2013, 6:20 p.m.)
Deposited	2 years, 2 months ago (June 17, 2023, 12:10 p.m.)
Indexed	4 days, 12 hours ago (Aug. 21, 2025, 1:57 p.m.)
Issued	12 years, 3 months ago (May 13, 2013)
Published	12 years, 3 months ago (May 13, 2013)
Published Online	12 years, 3 months ago (May 16, 2013)
Published Print	12 years, 3 months ago (May 13, 2013)

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BibTeX

@article{Reagor_2013, title={Reaching 10 ms single photon lifetimes for superconducting aluminum cavities}, volume={102}, ISSN={1077-3118}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4807015}, DOI={10.1063/1.4807015}, number={19}, journal={Applied Physics Letters}, publisher={AIP Publishing}, author={Reagor, Matthew and Paik, Hanhee and Catelani, Gianluigi and Sun, Luyan and Axline, Christopher and Holland, Eric and Pop, Ioan M. and Masluk, Nicholas A. and Brecht, Teresa and Frunzio, Luigi and Devoret, Michel H. and Glazman, Leonid and Schoelkopf, Robert J.}, year={2013}, month=may }

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