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On-Chip Superconducting Microwave Circulator from Synthetic Rotation

Joseph Kerckhoff1,*, Kevin Lalumière2, Benjamin J. Chapman1, Alexandre Blais2,3, and K. W. Lehnert1,4

  • 1JILA, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA
  • 2Département de Physique, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada J1K 2R1
  • 3Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Toronto, Canada
  • 4National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, Colorado 80305, USA

  • *Present address: HRL Laboratories, LLC, Malibu, CA 90265, USA. jakerckhoff@hrl.com
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Phys. Rev. Applied 4, 034002 – Published 10 September, 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.4.034002

Abstract

We analyze a design for a microwave circulator which could replace many of the commercial ferrite circulators that are ubiquitous in contemporary quantum superconducting microwave experiments. The lossless, lumped-element design is capable of being integrated on chip with other superconducting microwave devices, thus circumventing the many performance-limiting aspects of ferrite circulators. The design is based on the dynamic modulation of dc superconducting microwave quantum interference devices that function as nearly linear, tunable inductors. The connection to familiar ferrite-based circulators is a simple frame boost in the internal dynamics’ equation of motion. In addition to the general, schematic analysis, we also give an overview of many considerations necessary to achieve a practical design with a tunable center frequency in the 4–8-GHz frequency band, a bandwidth of 240 MHz, reflections at the −20−dB level, and a maximum signal power of approximately 100 microwave photons per inverse bandwidth.

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Phys. Rev. Applied 4, 034002– Published 10 September, 2015
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