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<p>Disordered superconducting materials with high kinetic inductance are an important resource for generating nonlinearity in quantum circuits and creating high-impedance environments. In thin films fabricated from these materials, the combination of disorder and low effective dimensionality leads to increased order parameter fluctuations and enhanced kinetic inductance values. Among the challenges of harnessing these compounds in coherent devices are their proximity to the superconductor-insulator phase transition and the two-level systems located in the disordered structure. Here, we fabricate tungsten silicide wires from quasi-two-dimensional films and embed them into microwave resonators and fluxonium qubits, where the kinetic inductance provides the inductive part of the circuits. In this work, we study the dependence of loss on the frequency, disorder, and geometry of the devices, and find that the loss increases with the level of disorder and is dominated by the localized quasiparticles trapped in the spatial variations of the superconducting gap.</p>

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Localized quasiparticles in a fluxonium with quasi-two-dimensional amorphous kinetic inductors

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    2026年2月21日

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  • Trevyn F. Q. Larson,
  • Sarah Garcia Jones,
  • Tamás Kalmár,
  • Pablo Aramburu Sanchez,
  • Sai Pavan Chitta,
  • Varun Verma,
  • Kristen L. Genter,
  • Stephen T. Gill,
  • Katarina Cicak,
  • Sae Woo Nam,
  • Gergö Fülöp,
  • Jens Koch,
  • Raymond W. Simmonds,
  • András Gyenis

摘要

Disordered superconducting materials with high kinetic inductance are an important resource for generating nonlinearity in quantum circuits and creating high-impedance environments. In thin films fabricated from these materials, the combination of disorder and low effective dimensionality leads to increased order parameter fluctuations and enhanced kinetic inductance values. Among the challenges of harnessing these compounds in coherent devices are their proximity to the superconductor-insulator phase transition and the two-level systems located in the disordered structure. Here, we fabricate tungsten silicide wires from quasi-two-dimensional films and embed them into microwave resonators and fluxonium qubits, where the kinetic inductance provides the inductive part of the circuits. In this work, we study the dependence of loss on the frequency, disorder, and geometry of the devices, and find that the loss increases with the level of disorder and is dominated by the localized quasiparticles trapped in the spatial variations of the superconducting gap.